Monthly Archives: April 2007
Blogger’s Code of Conduct
I hereby decree the Blogger’s Code of Conduct to be a fail. Those badges… They are hilarious. The idea of putting a “Civility Enforced” sheriff’s star on my blog to let people know I moderate comments just cracks me up … Continue reading
2 Easter Eggs For You
First an oldie but goodie. If you are a hard core emacs user, you probably already know about tetris.el. If not, you might get a kick out of it. Most emacs builds ship with it by default. To activate it … Continue reading
BBLean: BlackBox for Windows
If you read some of my previous posts, you might remember that I inherited some old laptops back in December. One of them was a really old Compaq with 200 MHz CPU and 64 MB of RAM. I managed to … Continue reading
Was the Death Star Attack an Inside Job?
Absolutely epic win: Uncomfortable Questions: Was the Death Star Attack an Inside Job? In this relatively short post the author manages to mock the 9/11 conspiracy theories, expose George Lucas as a talentless hack who can’t write a coherent plot, … Continue reading
5 Twitter Improvements I Would Like to See
People talk about groups, and other similar additions to Twitter. Personally, I don’t think these are necessary – and I’m not the only one. But here are few little tweaks that I would like to see: Always Show “In Reply … Continue reading
DRM Free iTunes Music: good thing or a bad thing?
I think everyone knows about this already. And if youd don’t then google fof iTunes and EMI and get yourself up to date. I’m to lazy at the moment to find you a link. When I first head about it … Continue reading
I forgot my voicemail password…
Has this ever happened to you? I completely blanked out when trying to punch in the voicemail password on my cell phone. I just could not for the life of me remember the correct combination. No muscle memory, no nothing … Continue reading
Why Switch? You can use both!
Dear Internet, Operating system is not a religion. You can have more than one. Everywhere I go I keep reading this pointless drivel about “switching” to Apple, migrating to Linux and etc.. I don’t get it. Is there some rule … Continue reading
Worst Spam Evar!
I almost spit my morning coffee while reading this today. Defective Yeti delivers again: img © defective yeti I think the comment is priceless! Seriously, just stick with selling Viagra and penis enlargement pills – these will likely never go … Continue reading
The Importance of Backing Your Shit Up
This is what I always tell to my users, but they never listen. Have you ever really looked at what is a hard drive? That one piece of hardware where we store all our precious work, data, pictures and etc. … Continue reading
Half of my RAM died
I got up early in the morning today determined to do something productive today. So I got into my office at MSU, started booting my laptop, logged into the JDS workstation and fired up Firefox to check my bloglines, gmail … Continue reading