Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Sep 26th, 2008
Valleywag has a story on how Harvard MBAs are to blame for the current state of affairs on Wall Street. Is it possible that the cumulative bill for Bush\’s recklessness might persuade America of the benefits of a little more socialization?
Posted in Misc on Sep 17th, 2008
The day is coming when we will not need elaborate backup arrangements, such as I described yesterday, for each individual computer. OSNews had a story a few days ago which points the way to the future. All disks on all computers on a network, including silicon disks, such as that in my new Asus EEE [...]
Posted in Misc on Sep 16th, 2008
Bye Bye Vista I reformatted another Vista PC at home and installed Ubuntu the other day. That still leaves 4 PCs running Vista, including a personal video recorder or PVR. As we approach the 2nd anniversary of Vista’s release to manufacturing you’d think that some of the major annoyances would have been sorted out by [...]
Posted in Misc on Sep 11th, 2008
The politics of many countries is often unfathomable, even to people who live there. Sometimes it takes an outsider to see things too close one’s nose, or, as in this case, someone who has lived elsewhere and learned to see from an outside perspective. This is the best explanation of something that has baffled me [...]
Posted in Misc on Sep 10th, 2008
I Am A Snob I enjoyed reading lately of a FireFox plug-in called the YouTube Comment Snob which filters out comments featuring More than a certain number of spelling mistakes All capital letters No capital letters Doesn’t start with a capital letter Excessive punctuation Profanity I’d use it if I ever read YouTube comments. I [...]
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