We may be witnessing the beginnings of a more mainstream backlash against Windows and the general frustration they inflict on average users. I’ll start by adding that I still have 2 windows installations used solely for playing World of Warcraft. My main machine dual boots to Debian Linux, where I do the occasional bit of […]
I haven’t updated in almost a week and I haven’t really put up anything significant in quite a while. It’s not really because my INTP brain is getting bored with blogging, but real life and work have been pretty busy lately. As a result, I haven’t had as much time to devote to writing for
So if you read my last post you saw that my sister’s now engaged! Her fiance Kevin, who she met nearly 3(?) years ago now but they didn’t start dating until the beginning of last year, surprised her with the big question during a trip to New York. I won’t spoil more details but will
Graph paper provided endless hours of distraction for me back in the day. Now, you can get various styles of graph paper as PDF – tons of styles. From boingboing.
Looks like the push to replace the Space Shuttle has revived, after Bush pretty much killed the effort (not the Shuttle) with his “let’s go to Mars” speech. The Washingon Times reports that NASA is planning to retire the shuttle fleet by 2010 and will need a new vehicle to send astronauts and supplies up
I’m going to assume that its purely coincidence that the day my sister starts her new job, this is the Dilbert strip for today. Good luck, Patty!
Great news: The DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC can not enforce the "Broadcast Flag" that movie and television cartels want to put into future TV hardware. Basically, this little flag would tell your TiVo/Replay/VCR if it could or could not record the latest episode of American Idol or
Orson Scott Card, who wrote one of my all-time favorite books Ender’s Game, decided to post his thoughts on Star Trek in the L.A. Times (login may be required, that’s why there’s bugmenot). I’m not sure why he’s so negative on Star Trek, but he really didn’t like the series. The original “Star Trek,”
Thanks to Sandy for pointing out that the save my info checkbox for comments wasn’t working. I’ve fixed that and also have relaxed my tag stripping in comments. Bold, Italic, Paragraph, and A (link) tags will now render.