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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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
I’ve been using Facebook now, since a lot of cousins/sister/friends are on it. Still quite haven’t figured out what it does for me, but I have managed to reconnect with old HS and College friends. I suspect Facebook is of less use to me cause I tend to have a small circle of friends, that
Much like my dad has done, another Windows Vista customer has "upgraded" a Vista machine to Windows XP. So, I guess the PR Lady was somewhat correct? BTW – annoying that apple doesn’t let you link directly to one of its ads — its free advertising, mactards! To be honest there is only one conclusion
Virginia Tech’s mens soccer teams makes its first appearance in the NCAA College Cup today. The game will be on ESPN2 at 5pm. Adam Kilgore in the Washington Post tells us how the Hokies made it to the tournament this year. Much like DC United’s 2004 title run, Va Tech also has a talentend young
It’s been a good week to be Viginia Tech football fan, either pointy or round ball kind. While the gridirion team gets their re-match with BC, the Hokies soccer team is having a historic year. Not only have the men gone undefeated at home, but last night they advanced in the NCAA tournament. Tech (12-3-5)
Amazingly insightful easy, as usual, on coding horror about The Two Types of Programmers. The 20% folks are what many would call "alpha" programmers — the leaders, trailblazers, trendsetters, the kind of folks that places like Google and Fog Creek software are obsessed with hiring. These folks were the first ones to install Linux at
From reading "Design doing": Speaking personally, all of my favourite web designers have one thing in common: they know how to write HTML and CSS I’m still surprised by how little HTML + CSS many "web" designers actually know.