Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, Random, Thoughts, babbling, consumerism, electronic gadgets, electronics, gadgets, geekdom, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged internet, cell phone, handhelds, palm pilot, palmtop, mp3 player, digital camera on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s simple.
It remembers my appointments.
It has an address book
It has a “Notes” Section
It has a “To do” list
It does everything I want.
It came with a nifty, full-size keyboard
It doesn’t have any crap I don’t need, which I already have in other devices, such as:
a cell phone
an mp3 player
a digital camera
an internet connection
text messaging (which [...]
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Posted in Linux, QOTMFD, babbling, computers, geekdom, geeks, hardware, internet, media, ramblings, usenet, tagged liberation, computers, usenet, nntp, freedom, taxpayers, corporate welfare, war-on-terror, neocons, newsgroups on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Usenet has been, and continues to be, a great source of information, where technologies that push product can easily be pushed aside using filters. There are more than 10,000 newsgroups on nearly every topic that delienates our human existence, all hierarchically arranged. The major hierarchies are known as “The Big 8″: comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, [...]
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Posted in Linux, Miscellaneous, babbling, computers, design, fashion, geekdom, geeks, media, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, satire, tagged Aphorisms, articles, Creative Writing, Family, Fortune Cookies, Funny, humour, Jokes, Life, One liners, Phrases, Proverbs, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quote of the Day, Random, random thoughts, Rants on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
There is a certain set of color values somewhere in the visible spectrum that do not seem to have a category. These colors seem to go with nothing in your house, and do not seem to come from anything in nature.
The commonest of the ugly colors appear to be (by their RGB values — it [...]
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Posted in Linux, computers, geekdom, geeks, hardware, software, windows, tagged computers, geekdom, geeks, hardware, Linux, Microsoft, software, windows on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Today I learned (or should I say, re-learned, since I did this before several times but today forgot how I did it) about another thing Windows does. It insists on formatting my partition on a new portable hard drive I purchased to NT without offering me any other option. I removed the drive from the [...]
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Posted in Community, Domestic Life, Opinion, Pop Culture, Rants, Thoughts, babbling, christian, computers, daily life, geekdom, geeks, ramblings, socialism, tagged babbling, christian, Community, computers, daily life, Domestic Life, geekdom, geeks, Opinion, Pop Culture, ramblings, Rants, socialism, Thoughts on March 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Look, there is no such thing. The idea of on-line communities is too passive for me to call it a community. It might have the power to make certain changes, but we need to work in real communities and worry more about bringing real people together in real communities.
While I post to a journal, I [...]
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At long last, CUPS has detected my printer, but alas, I still can’t send print jobs to it. The fact that it is wireless might have something to do with it; but the odd thing is that I can telnet to it and print a test page. So, I think the problem must be software-related.
I [...]
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Posted in Aphorisms, Fortune Cookies, Proverbs, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quotations, Quote of the Day, comedy, computers, geekdom, geeks, humor, humour, parody, quotes, sayings, tagged Aphorisms, comedy, computers, Fortune Cookies, geekdom, geeks, humor, humour, parody, Proverbs, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quotations, Quote of the Day, quotes, sayings on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
More auto-generated fortunes:
question = ( to ) ? be : ! be;
– C code, loosely based on Wm. Shakespeare
Experience, n.:
Something you don’t get until just after you need it.
– Olivier
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
– Redd [...]
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Posted in Art and Design, Pop Culture, Rants, Thoughts, fashion, geekdom, geeks, modelling, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged Art and Design, fashion, geekdom, geeks, modelling, Pop Culture, ramblings, random thoughts, Rants, Thoughts on March 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Computer Gique Chic - Unknown who the model or photographer is, but the main attraction is, is that darned computer!
I saw some images, professionally shot, of these stylish models in front of this mostly glass computer monitor with a glass touch keyboard. There were two problems I had with this: 1) there is no such [...]
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