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Category Archives: technology
Inkscape 0.46 Rocks
For the past year I’ve been using the pretty good Inkscape 0.45 for any vector drawing I had to do at work. I use Inkscape for three purposes: playing, diagramming, and flow-charting. The day after my 29th birthday, Inkscape hit … Continue reading
Posted in programming, right-brain, technology, work
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Verizon: Buy a Phone or No DSL
Today I called Verizon to address my issues with my ISP, Comcast. After talking to a robot for 5 minutes and deftly avoiding a Spanish-speaking robot I talked to an operator. Other than her lack of recalling my ZIP code … Continue reading
Posted in PSA, best-practices, customer-relations, technology
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Comcast Still Sucks!
As stated before, my ISP was sold to Comcast. It’s been a week and a half and I’m ready to dump it for DSL. For most of the day (actually, most of the weekend) I have had to connection to … Continue reading
Posted in best-practices, customer-relations, technology
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Business Consolidation Hurts Comsumers -or- Comcast Cable Sucks
Friday I received notice via the mail that my cable company (Insight) had sold its cable modem assets to Comcast Cable. A chill ran down my spine. Insight had provided pretty good ‘net access for me these past years. They’ve … Continue reading
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Hot Wheels Meets Detroit
Mazda’s got a new car ready for Detroit’s auto show and it looks like a Hot Wheels® shark car from my youth. What’s next, flexible roads that can be fashioned into tracks with loops on them?
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Lazyweb Request
Dear Internet, I would like a way to use a TCP service through my user account. I don’t wanna bind to localhost:nnnn I want localUser:nnnn that is only accessible by the user that opened the port. Thank you. Josh Peters
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Co.mments rocks!
Last week I discovered a great site dedicated to keeping track of your comments, appropriately named co.mments. It allows you to track a given page and co.mments will periodically re-fetch the page and compare it to the previous version. It … Continue reading
Posted in feeds, technology, web
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Automated Reputation Discernment
Spencer Critchley proposes a method for tracking the reputation of a politician over at O’Reilly’s blogs. This could very well be called the Age of Recursion. Starting with Google’s original PageRank idea the power of applied recursion is really starting … Continue reading
Potentially Huge
Corning announces breakthrough in flexible fiber-optic cable. What this translates into is better, faster, potentially cheaper communications lines for everyone. This could be what cable was to TV: a much larger pipe through which many more options can flow and … Continue reading
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Now this is an insult!
Fake Steve Jobs insults Windows Vista
Posted in funny, technology
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