Category: geek of technology
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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…
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server intestinal implosion
so the server is having issues. i’m getting a lot of slow loading pages and error 500s on the wordpress sites i’m running. when i contacted 1and1 to report the issue, i got this fantabulous response: me: > Hi– > > I have multiple sites running on my shared hosting > package, and I noticed…
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A Public Service Announcement to the Blogosphere…
The Onion is satire. SATIRE, people! C’mon, people really thought this was real? Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard (Answer: yes.) wtf? I mean seriously, with all the headlines about how Steve Jobs wasn’t even at MacWorld Expo this year, let alone the fact that the MacWorld keynote is TODAY, not yesterday like the…
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from the dead
i’ve been ignoring my poor blog for a long time, opting instead for the much easier, Twitter. however, i had to post something because the wordpress 2.7 backend is so awesome, it’s just begging to be used.
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someone put me out of my g33k’d misery
i feel like steve jobs is playing a cruel game of punk’d on me. so here’s the deal. i have a macbook. many applications that i want to use don’t work or don’t seem to be entirely supported or have weird issues in tiger (such as the bizarre instance of photoshop not being able to…
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chrome: simplifying the web
in other news of simplifying things, google chrome… i have been a firefox=aholic for a good long while. way back in the beginnings of the internet, i wasn’t ever totally satisfied with internet explorer, and netscape was always too bloated, so i tried every browser i could get my hands on. i settled on opera…
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simplifying things, cutting off painful extremities
so last week, erin and i decided to cut off iFreelance for good. we’ve gotten a good run on Elance and we’ve only really gotten 1 fix-it job on iFreelance, the interface isn’t as good, the support and payment isn’t as easy (for either party) or well developed, and the jobs are fewer and tend…