In spite of the resources available to them, why can't any software company ( Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Google, Sun ) provide some sort of download / update system that isn't embarrassingly inefficient, unusable, or confusing. With the exception of the OS X software update scheme, and several of the OSS solutions, I haven't experienced one that was ( Read more... )

This week's New Yorker has transposed "feeders" for "foodies" in Calvin Trillin's article on Singaporean street hawkers. Is it wrong that I find a guilty pleasure in that?

Dimensions ( Read more... )

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"This is difficult to reconcile with Sean's claim that a test Orbo has been run continuously for several weeks, however -- unless it was being carefully cradled by a hopeful and deluded energy source for part of that time."http://

i'm just posting this userpic for natalie.

i was looking out the window of my office
when the wind came up with the thunderstorm.
little white flower petals from washington
square park are blowing around outside, and it's
nearly dark in the middle of the afternoon.

Pearlman is now at large, and his whereabouts remain unknown. His alleged victims - some of them now destitute - are left to wonder how they were taken by the man who created and once managed the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync ( Read more... )

The times I've had to contact dell customer support for my laptop they've been quite good at a timely and effective solution ( Read more... )