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Archive for August, 2003
OpenOffice Writer: For all your TPS Reports
I’ve got the RedHat 9 installer running on a machine on the desk behind me. I happen to glance over, and what’s on the splash screen? “OpenOffice.org Writer: For all your TPS Reports.” in a really pretty graphic and everything.
Man, Office Space is one of my favorite movies, but I never expected jokes [...]
Friday, August 29th, 2003. Posted in Humor, Technology | No Comments »>
Greg Pierce
Well, for the first time I’m the #1 result for “greg pierce” on Google — I’m feeling lucky! I don’t check terribly often, so it may have been that way for awhile. Scoble posted about “egosurfing” being added to the dictionary, so I had to try.
Friday, August 29th, 2003. Posted in Misc, Technology | No Comments »>
Shopping carts
I’m working on updating my work’s website for full shopping cart functionality. I’m not going to diverge too far from standard practice, but have a few ideas for different ways of handling thing that are appropriate to our product line. I’m interested, however, in UI ideas…do you have a favorite webstore? One [...]
Thursday, August 28th, 2003. Posted in Technology, Work | 2 Comments »>
Political compass test
This is an interesting test of your political leanings. My score was:
Economic Left/Right: 0.38
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.87
Tuesday, August 26th, 2003. Posted in Politics | 7 Comments »>
Widescreen NNW
Man, I’m all about this NetNewsWire hack. [via Brent]
Monday, August 25th, 2003. Posted in Technology | 2 Comments »>
Windows: Insecure by design
The Washington Post highlights some of the real reasons Windows is insecure…and contrasts those with choice made in the default setup of Mac OS X and Linux.
Monday, August 25th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
RSS Virus Alerts
Sophos (in my opinion, the finest Anti-Virus software available) offers free RSS feeds of virus alerts and other virus related info.
Friday, August 22nd, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Zevon special
Note to self, watch VH-1’s Warren Zevon special Sunday night.
Thursday, August 21st, 2003. Posted in Music, TV | No Comments »>
Outlook 2003
Now with enhanced confusion inducing interface
Wednesday, August 20th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Spam’s really getting out of hand
I was looking at some of my spam this morning because I caught part of a Law & Order SVU last night that centered around it. This is the actual text of a spam message I received overnight…really bad (I took out the web address and profanity, but I left in the email addresses. [...]
Wednesday, August 20th, 2003. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>
Sounds promising…
…bet it will still suck.
Tuesday, August 19th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Busy, busy
Haven’t been posting much, because I’ve been so busy. We’ve been working on getting our house ready to go on the market Sept. 1. Oy…lots of cleanup, lots of things to sift through. Spent the afternoon Sunday out in the 102 degree heat removing storm windows and cleaning them…boy, that was fun. [...]
Tuesday, August 19th, 2003. Posted in Family and Friends, Technology, Work | No Comments »>
Blaster worm
If you got hit with the Blaster worm, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Thursday, August 14th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Chimeras
NPR had an interesting piece this morning on Chimera twins (Audio)…a phenomenon that I had not heard of. Apparently, sometimes two fertilized eggs, that would normally be destined to become fraternal twins, can merge very early in the process and produce a single child — with two people’s DNA.
In the piece, they [...]
Monday, August 11th, 2003. Posted in Health, Misc | No Comments »>
HP 10-key
Among it’s many announcements today, HP announced a new 17″ laptop…and, finally, someone has introduced one that used that extra width to provide a real 10-key number pad on the keyboard.
The lack of a number pad has always been one of my big problems with laptops, and I have USB number pads on my desk [...]
Monday, August 11th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »> « Previous Entries
