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Blogging from the Storm
Sitting in the house watching the Hurricane go by. So far it's no worse than a sustained, fairly bad, rain storm. That wont last, but so far so good. The wind is picking up even as I'm typing this. Storm is looking like it's not going to hit quite as hard as expected, but it's till going to be a bit of a ride when the eye come by. Hope ( Read more... ) -
New Job
Well, it hasn't exactly been low stress but I received an offer from a company in Huntsville, AL. I'll be starting Sept 9th, and everything is looking good. I'm pretty happy with the offer, pretty happy with the job, and pretty happy with the area we'll be living in. Huntsville looks like a great place to live with a moderate climate, fairly ( Read more... ) -
iPhone 3G, Free Software, and Annoying People
So, as you might have noticed (unless you live in a cave), the iPhone 3G was released today amid much fanfare. A friend of mine posted an article related to the release by a guy named Richard Stallman. Now, if you happen to be knowledgeable about the history and politics of Free Software, you know who this is. He's fairly famous actually. ( Read more... ) -
New Toy
I finally did it. I went to Best Buy this weekend and acquired myself a cute little MacBook. It's one of the smaller plastic models with a 13.3 inch wide-aspect screen, 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo CPU, 2 GB of RAM and and an Intel video chipset that can share up to 128 MB of RAM (it's the most "meh" part of the computer unfortunately). I've been using ( Read more... ) -
In Which he Waxes Political More
I am beginning to question Senator Clinton's math skills. Don't get me wrong, I like the woman well enough. I have a preference for Obama as the Democratic nominee, but I was and am perfectly willing to vote for either in the general election. This whole math thing has really got me bothered though. It started with the "Gas Tax Holiday" ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
I haven't posted in a while, but I heard something on NPR this morning that so made me go, "huh?" that I just had to talk about it. John McCain apparently talked about his new health care plan recently, to contrast it with the Democratic plans. Now this information may have been available before, but this is the first I've heard of it. ( Read more... ) -
The Year, it is New
May it be happy for you!
::Giggle::
OK, so I'm easily amused, have a happy New Year anyway. -
Linux-The Free
Talking about "Linux" is a bit like talking about "Wicca", or "Paganism". There are an almost infinite number of flavors, rabid fanboys (and fangirls) abound, and no one ever seems to agree on anything; but underneath all of that is something really worthwhile. Linux comes in a number of different releases or "distros", each produced by a ( Read more... ) -
Windows-The Default
I mentioned a few day ago that I might do short series of articles about the "big three" computer platforms from my perspective. As a systems administrator I've been in a position to use, administer, and evaluate all three platforms, and look at the strengths and weaknesses of each. My most recent post was more or less one long bitch about a ( Read more... ) -
Windows Vista
Wow! Two posts in a week! What a wild guy.
Several people on my f-list and on goddessmusings's f-list have made posts in the last month or two about purchasing new PCs, thinking about purchasing new PCs, or upgrading PCs. Most of them have had to do with, or will have to do with, Windows Vista. Microsoft's latest operating system offering has the press ( Read more... )