I’m cleaning out some book shelves and looking to re-sell some old books, a smattering of fantasy and random hard-cover books I’d acquired. You can check out my listing on Amazon. I’m a bit of a bookphile, Patty can tell confirm this, I used to absolutely hate when she would highlight her books or dog-ear […]
I’ve been staying up pretty late again, working on my various websites and geeking out, usually past 1am. A lot of nights, I’ll listen to the stream from the DC NPR affiliate, WAMU. Unfortunately, at 1AM they broadcast the show Fair Game, which aspires to be a funny, Progressive take on the days events. What’s
According to InfoWorld, the next update of IE7 will be automatically downloaded and installed:Microsoft warns businesses of impending autoupdate to IE7. Just thought you might want to know, in case you want to keep IE6 around. Companies that stuck with IE6 must take action, Microsoft said, or IE7 may be automatically downloaded and installed to
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Who really loves their cell phone provider? I moved from Sprint to T-mobile 3 years ago because you can use unlocked phones and they use a standard that’s recognized abroad. In practical terms, this means when we had to replace Staci’s phone, we simply moved the SIM card from her old phone to the new
I have to confess that delegating software installation to Debian and Ubuntu’s apt command is what finally converted me to Linux. I stillhave a bias against .rpms and building from source based on disastrous experiences hunting down obscure .rpms or figuring out why make would not work. If you’re trying out Ubuntu or another Linux
Zed Shaw provides a very useful insight into what makes a project work. I’m posting this here a) so that I can refer to it again in the future and b) the hypothesis passes my "Yup-I’ve-been-there" test. This method is based on a simple revelation about how clients and projects can be divided generally into
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