Category: tech stuff
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RSS from anywhere may be a reality for me.
And it didn’t even take me banging my head against Google Reader. I’ve been looking for something portable to replace my current favourite, an RSS plugin for Outlook 2003. Mostly because, on days like today when I’m not sitting in front of my computer, as much as I love … Read the rest
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Holy crap, Google’s everywhere.
Before Google, we had Yahoo. And back then, Yahoo was pretty much just search. They came up with the idea for hosting email as well in the mid to late 90’s–around the same time as Hotmail was born. By then, Google was still just search. Flash forward 11 years or … Read the rest
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I think I just drooled a little.
I know, my birthday’s not until June, but if someone’s looking for things to buy, either of these would be absolutely awesome. Granted, this machine’s still going strong–and it’s running a dual core processor, but… still. At least 8 GB of memory. Seriously? For a budget computer? I mean, sure … Read the rest
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Reasons not to buy yourself a netbook, number 5489.
There’s a report out now that’s saying the rate of failure in netbooks within the first year is significantly higher than that of laptops and desktops. Now, not having actually owned a netbook I couldn’t even start to tell you if it’s accurate or not, but having owned 2 laptops … Read the rest
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An open letter to DreamHost.
Dear DH, I happened to be up during the night for unrelated reasons, and just so happened to be walking past the computer to take care of a thing or two. In so doing, I couldn’t help but notice the tell-tail signs of a severe breakage not entirely unlike one … Read the rest
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Rogers, you and I need to talk.
It’s great that you’re coming out with a new, in-house and online equivalent to your on demand option available through your cable services. It’s even greater that you’re extending the option of using it to customers of any Rogers service. But you might want to, maybe, give not screwing over … Read the rest
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So this is what happens when I’m bored.
I know this isn’t a techy type blog, but well, I’m a techy type geek, and it’s my blog. I’ll get back to writings of a more personal nature just as soon as I have something to write about. In the meantime, have a read. You might yet find something … Read the rest
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Taking the analysis challenge.
Since I started this blog, I’ve been running a local tracking tool for the purposes of generating stats of mostly general interest to me–how people got here, what people read when they got here, did they come back, where did they go when they left, all that interesting to me … Read the rest
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Gonna miss you, Mininova.
I can tell you one thing I ended up not being thankful for when I woke up this morning after last night’s festivities. I staggered out to the computer, and went through my various news sources, coming up on this bit of disturbing news. It would appear, much to … Read the rest
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When your network takes a crap, and takes your email with it.
At some point during the night last night, and rather inconveniently after Jessica and I had run off to bed and so I couldn’t immediately determine that it was a network issue, this blog, a rarely updated–and, in fact, rather neglected for a couple weeks–political blog, and our email among … Read the rest
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