Category: geek of technology
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disnts…isn’t
this will be my last disnts post. why? because they’re boring. i’m boring myself talking about it. the lives of my sims just aren’t interesting enough to warrant a blog about them. maybe i’m too involved, but it seemed to me like when i left free will to do most of the work, they just…
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sims 3: the disnts
i’ve been playing sims 3 a bit after being inspired by alice and kev. for those who haven’t seen or heard about them, alice and kev are two homeless sims in sims 3. the way alice and kev’s player portrays them, it seemed like there was quite a lot of serious ai advances and the story…
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so this is what pro blogging is all about
arcane palette just got our first affiliate commission. this is really exciting for us, because this is essentially like getting free money. and suddenly, i get it. i get how upstartblogger and probably countless other pro-bloggers make their living. it’s not through adsense, on which you make pennies unless you get thousands and thousands of hits a day…
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hulu desktop app — needs work
i’m sure i saw it on twitter, but i don’t really remember. at any rate, hulu has released a new desktop application for windows and mac osx. i’m a huge fan of hulu. this is my equivalent of television, and i am looking forward to more shows being cast on hulu. hulu and tivo, in my…
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now in penguin-vision
i’ve been a longtime fan and occasional user of linux. i had it running for about a year as my primary operating system under ubuntu. microsoft announced the release of their windows 7 RC-1 the other day, and as part of the announcement stated that all of their beta testers, whether you’re using win 7 beta…
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twitter is so passe. flutter: the next next big thing
alternately, as a flap: twit = old. flttr rawks.
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Ada Lovelace Day
So, for Ada Lovelace Day, I am going to write about an unsung tech heroine close to my heart, my wife, erin. erin is my biggest source of artistic inspiration. she is an incredible visual artist (just check out erin’s sketchbook), and had to make quite an adjustment to adapt to web technology like we were committed…
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i know it’s all in the name of technology, but…
i’m all for google street view. i laugh at the claims of invasion of privacy when people file lawsuits against google street view when they find themselves on google maps. i am amused by humorous street view photos like the one with the guy in front of the camera or the one where they ran…
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how windows 7 (inadvertently) helped me find a virus
so the other day, i got a notification in my systray that msdt.exe was corrupt, and possibly i should do a chkdsk to repair the problem. after seeing this crop up several times, i decided to take the message’s advice. i stopped paying attention at some point, when i realized the chkdsk was gonna take…
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windows 7 beta review
so, i’ve been running win 7 beta on my main machine for a little while now and thought i should share my thoughts, since, you know, that’s kind of the whole point of this beta thing… boot time bootup time is significantly faster than vista and xp. i’m actually pretty surprised at how quickly it’s…