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The latest book meme
Bold the ones you’ve read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones you’ve read part of, and no cheating. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesn’t count. Abridged versions don’t count either.
Total completely read: 23
Total partially read: 12
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry ( Read more... ) -
So, this RSS thing...
Having discovered that RSS is far and away the way to keep up with Facebook, I have suddenly realized that I've been Doing It Wrong for years. I shouldn't have bookmarks to LiveJournal, Facebook, The Daily WTF, There I Fixed It, and so on. I should have set up feeds for all of them in my RSS reader of choice long, long ago. -
End of an era?
I may be about to do something I haven't considered in 14 years. I may buy a Western Digital hard drive.
Back in the day (1995-1997) I worked for an ISP. We also, as an occasional side business, built systems. The builders always used Maxtor hard drives and I adopted Maxtor as my go-to brand for drives. (I still have a vintage 1999 8-GB Maxtor ( Read more... ) -
Always wanted to...
Since being a VCP gets you a free license for VMware Workstation 7 (your choice of Windows or Linux), while I await my welcome kit, I've gone ahead and installed WS 7 in evaluation mode.
My laptop now also runs OpenBSD, ReactOS, and Haiku. Mostly the last two are just toys but OpenBSD will actually be useful to gain some new skills -- I have ( Read more... ) -
For you Final Fantasy fans...
Read this. Comment win begins with Havingfitz. -
And in creepy news...
Anybody else seen the Beatles Rock Band ads? Is it just me, or is the "John Lennon" character in the ad extremely creepy-looking? It looks like they were trying for "high on fame" Lennon and got "high on the brown acid" Lennon instead. (This is aside from the inherent creepiness of using dead people to advertise your product.) -
Oh dear lord, thank you, Apple...
This has been one of my biggest pet peeves about the iPod touch, and now it's fixed:
"The facsimilie of your Home screen, meanwhile, lets you drag app icons around just as you would on the phone itself. A small “x” appears when you hover over any third-party application, allowing you to remove it from the phone. You can drag an app icon to one of ( Read more... )