iPhone Update
Well, I’ve had my iPhone 3G a little over 2 weeks now, so I figured it was time for an update. There’s a few specific areas I’ll talk about, and finish with my fairly-short list of gripes. Battery Life...
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More Social Networking For Me, Thanks to OSCON
Looking through my blog’s archive, I never did blog about my getting started with Facebook, but I’m blaming, er, crediting the 2008 O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). They had put up a note that...
View ArticleAnd This is Why I Don’t Use GUIs…
I just read that NetApp (a company that makes file servers that I have used and administrated for over 10 years, and really like) is yanking their current Graphic User Interface (GUI, which is...
View ArticleMy Thoughts on the New Star Trek Movie (Spoiler-free!)
“Come, come, now, Scotty. Young minds, fresh ideas.” “Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a wagon.” Kirk, Scotty; Star Trek III: The Search for Spock(line order reversed deliberately) The...
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End of a (Keyboard) Era
Today, I’m replacing my workstation keyboard. Not really a big deal, until you consider I’ve been using the same one for 16 years. In 1994, Microsoft released their Natural Keyboard, and after I had...
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First Impressions of Google’s Cr-48 Netbook
Standard disclaimer: I am not an employee of, or in any way affiliated with Google. After watching the Google ChromeOS press event on the 7th of December, I had gone to the form (a link for which had...
View ArticleRackspace Rocks
Of the many challenges that we have in the upcoming move, there was one major one that was my own fault. But you get complacent, you know? I have been using the Speakeasy DSL service, as they had a...
View ArticleMoving Stuff: Fun With Phones Part 1
We currently use Speakeasy’s voice-over-ip (VoIP) service for our house phone, and one of the goals we had in mind for this move was that we somehow retain our phone number. Area codes don’t really...
View ArticleMoving Stuff: Fun With Phones Part 2
With the up-coming move, the question about what to do with our home phone was resolved by beginning an attempt to port our home Voice Over IP (VoIP) number, in a two-step process, to the Google Voice...
View ArticleMoving Stuff: Moving Away From DSL
I just cancelled my DSL service. Not sure how I feel about that, as I’ve had the service for almost 8 years. It was a “geek friendly” package, which meant I paid a premium for a couple of static IPs...
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