Memories on the Web – Summer Camp
Tonight, while talking with blk about childhood memories, I started thinking about the summer camp I went to when I was around Zach’s age. It was a sleepaway camp, up in the pocono mountains, called...
View ArticleUseful Firefox Plugin du jour
This one’s been nagging me for a while. When doing work on CONGO, I spend a lot of time editing templates and stylesheets within <textarea> blocks. This is all fine and dandy, except Firefox (and...
View ArticleGrrr du jour, KDE + Flash = FAIL!
Well doesn’t that just frost your fingernails. This morning an update came down the pike from the Ubuntu distribution that updated the Adobe Flash (nonfree) plugin, a plugin I use primarily in...
View ArticleThe Spam, it burns!
Just in case you were curious about the levels of spam I have to deal with daily. I have a filter running on my inbox that tracks how much mail I get each day, how much of that is list traffic, and how...
View ArticleDecorated laptops?
That’s the third time I’ve had a comment about my laptop this week. I guess it’s unusual enough to have a Flying Spaghetti Monster plaque on the machine, but the addition of a large “for SCIENCE!”...
View ArticleAnd now, a word or two about Bluetooth headphone usage
I’d like to take a few moments today to talk to those who have recently hopped on the Bluetooth Headphone bandwagon. Apparently its become socially acceptable and, frankly, chic for the general...
View ArticleIt’s GROW time again!
Y’all have become complacent. Too much free time! Well, enough of that. Time to get back out there and help the little blob people! This time one of them has gotten sick, and it’s up to you to heal...
View ArticleA snack marketed DIRECTLY at ME!
Someone at General Mills totally got this one right. I found these on the shelf while shopping for Arisia this year. “Protein, salty, AND sweet. And I LOVE peanuts!” Lemme tell ya, they’re awesome....
View ArticleAnimation with GIMP, and a new icon
I’ve been thinking about learning how to make animated GIFs. They’re super-popular on Livejournal and other forums, so why not figure out how to put it all together? Turns out The Gimp has a very...
View ArticleDear Jboss. QA yer damned site.
Why is it so hard for any organization, from opensource on up, to understand it’s a good idea to give the users information they want, in a form that’s useable? I zipped over to JBoss.org to see if...
View ArticleJoin our BOINC team! Again!
I suppose it’s okay to mention every two years or so that I have a BOINC team that is collectively pooling all idle computing power and using those idle cycles for scientific research and analysis....
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