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Code on the Road: Navigating The Minefield that is Visual Source Safe

In programming on 7 September 2007 with no comments

Code on the Road: Navigating The Minefield that is Visual Source Safe: “comment” Dudes, it was time to move to Subversion two years ago. Get going!

Top EMI DRM-free choices for iTunes

In goodstuff, music, technology on 2 April 2007 with no comments

Today EMI announced that in conjunction with Apple they would be releasing their catalog of music on the iTunes store sans-DRM. “This is awesome” you might be thinking, but does EMI actually have any non-sucky music in its catalog? Personally I feel the need to spend some kash-munee and support EMI, so I went browsing. [...]

NY Times "Feature" Annoys All (Mostly Me)

In annoyance, javascript on 7 March 2007 with 1 comment

I noticed this Sunday while reading the New York Times online that when you are in the main text of an article, double-clicking anywhere on the body of the article causes a pop-up window to spawn. The pop-up contains a dictionary definition of the word that has been highlighted by your double-click action. This is [...]

My Own Personal DailyWTF

In consultants, hpc, idiocy, vbscript on 12 January 2007 with no comments

If you work in tech, and you glean humor from the peril of other people’s interactions with incompetence, you’ve probably seen http://thedailywtf.com/. Go on, take a look. It’s pretty good stuff. In my “pay the bills” job, I run into so many WTFs that it has become almost devoid of humor for me. Here’s one [...]

New Linux Distros for 2007

In linux on 3 January 2007 with no comments

So here it is. A silly list of my Linux predictions regarding new distributions for 2007. I hope it’s not too stupid and someone besides me actually gets a laugh out of this. Jewbuntu Auto power off or sleep mode determined by Sabbath mode timer and slider for setting degree of observance. Image filter extension [...]