Too close for missiles; switching to guns….
Over the past couple of weeks I had been limping along trying to figure out why my bandwidth at home was sucking eggs hard-core. Come to find out it isn’t Verizon after all; it’s Firefox! I’m gonna surf like it’s 1999 I had been talking with br4x just the other day (well, last week(, and I … Read more
Hopefully you are simply interested in this rather than have just witnessed some major catastrophe befall your computer. Or like me, you are setting forth to ace GRUB and move on with your life. A few short hours ago I detailed my dissatisfaction with Ubuntu and the whole Linux experience. Well, now I aced GRUB … Read more
I’ve spent the last half hour screwing around with a dorked up install, poorly written and inadequately designed software, and all I want to do is post about my trip to Texas. That is not to be. Ubuntu stinks… There, I said it. I mean it too. Between having to resurrect my install due to … Read more
It’s the good ol’ days, back when I was in Junior High, full of spunk because we just got a new color monitor and ditched the Amber Screen that we opted for over the standard green with our XT. Good times… Good Times! Now you too can relive the glory days of computing, be transported … Read more
I’ve been reading a lot of science journals lately and some undergrads at MIT have been working on a security system based on an individuals DNA structure…. no. Not really. But I do watch Sci-Fi. I turned on the TV to watch Eureka this evening and about half way through I was treated to this … Read more
One of my recent projects involves developing a full screen Flash site that is of abnormal size, possibly requiring the user to scroll to view the entire site. This started out to be a bit of a conundrum, and didn’t readily avail itself to an other than lame solution. I started diving into using JavaScript … Read more
I was first launched off on a tangent a couple of weeks ago to add a tag cloud to my Flogging English, though after a few crashes and getting my .htaccess file fatched up, I bagged it. After getting an email today – I reconsidered. MY iTunes For those of you who haven’t seen it, … Read more
In general computers aren’t inexpensive, compared when the first IBM XT first made a home for itself in our living room back in the day, they are down-right free, but it’s still far too easy to pay $1,000 for a good desktop machine. So why is it that in order for us to get this … Read more
Last year’s London Design Festival some some pretty amazing things, and I will eagerly anticipate this year’s September showing to see what new creations are unleashed upon society. Realizing all too well I am about a year late on this, but in my defense I had a lot going on over the past couple of … Read more
One of my cohorts has dusted off his old IBM keyboard and clacked his way into the blogoshpere, with Crunchlife. Powered by Typo, it’s been splattered with AJAX, Ruby, ample helpings of Social Networking and even a bit of pre-launch gib. Sooner or later his site might catch up to mine with lots of helpful … Read more
I don’t know what to say… no, not true. I do. YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I’ve been on a little spending spree as of late, of which I am the direct recipient of. w00t! MacBook Pro This thing is amazing! Flat out. Hands down the very best computer I have ever purchased, I would almost say that I … Read more
No this is not an exaggeration! If I were the Church Lady you’d being hearing Saaatttaaaannnn! Right here; right now. Gentlemen; fatch your computers! It started small, and ended up big; all I did was tell Apple Update to go ahead and run itself, and update my version of iTunes. Way wrong idea! I started … Read more
I just downloaded and installed Beryl on my Ubuntu desktop and OMFG! Is it cool! The window effects, the zoom, focus and not to mention the 3D desktop cube – you have to see it to really appreciate it! Br4x had been telling me about it, and it sounded cool from what I had read … Read more
Every so often something will happen with my desktop that I need to rebuild it. Maybe I get a new SATA drive that’s faster, so I make it my new boot drive, or I build up a new desktop or whatever, XP just gets fat and slow and needs to be reinstalled (you know you … Read more
I have to say that when I first discovered the news that Adobe was going to acquire Macromedia – my heart skipped a few beats. I mean, they already had GoLive (which is a POS), and with how poorly the last version of the Acrobat plugin performed I thought for sure my favorite development platform … Read more