Wow. Touch-sensitive surfaces that work as keyboards *and* mice. The best part is, they come with some fairly extensive gestures that let you do things like copy, paste, scroll, and so on, just by dragging fingers across the surface. Super-cool!
Hey, they updated the Visual Thesaurus. Cool. (Requires IE or Netscape.)
Just got an email through my resume site from a local marketing agency looking for some intranet work. I only mention this because, damn, their website is nice.
To paraphrase the Dead Milkmen, everybody’s got nice jobs but me…
Wow, the Amiga OS just will not die. Check out these “very preliminary” screenshots. Doesn’t it just take you back to the glory days of OS/2 Warp?
I can smell the stench of icky death from here, guys. Give it up!
“Bonus material” isn’t.
Writers do not interview well. That’s probably why they’re writers and not, say, actors.
“Making of” specials should generally not accompany the movie they’re about.
Television is much more enjoyable — sometimes even worthwhile — with all the commercials left out.
Reflexively reaching for the mute button at the end of an act, despite the [...]
Ever since hanging out with my sweetie’s 10-year-old neice at Christmas, I’ve had the word “lot’ll” bouncing around in my head. I finally figured out why. Turns out I was remembering a short poem attributed to Richard Armour:
Shake and shake
The ketchup bottle
None’ll come
And then a lot’ll
Seems like the sort of thing I’d hear [...]
Well, I sold my second PC this morning — the one I bought back in June so I could start learning Linux. Somehow, spending days trying to get Windows file-sharing to work and never getting it right cooled my ardor for that damned smirking penguin.
So anyway, what with Linux sucking and the monitor being [...]
I just literally laughed out loud (actually, technically, I cackled) upon learning that the ADO.NET classes have an isolation level called IsolationLevel.Chaos. Chaos! I love it!
I need to get out more.
Ever notice that people are always said to be served “in good stead” by something? It’s never “in bad stead” or even “in mediocre stead.”
Ouch. This comic about copyrights is funnier than that caption makes it sound, but it’s especially amusing if you know about the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Oh, yeah. I forgot to leave the house today.
Two people today have expressed surprise that I haven’t been to college.
In case you’ve not already got the message about George II denying the UN Fund for Population Activities $34 million (which Congress had already approved) for some obscure, ostensibly “pro-life” reason, um, you should have.
I finally got around to donating, which you can also do from their site.
Note to self: If your polar fleece jacket comes out of the dryer with tons of lint all over it, the same brush attachment you use to vacuum the couch will work quite well on the jacket, too.
As Ariel points out, look at these prices for web hosting. $15/year for a hosting plan that’s mostly comparable to Laughing Squid’s $20/month plan. Perhaps I’ll move chopsticksexpress.com over there just to have a place to play with PHP/MySQL.
Up until 1:45am last night reading a new (to me) Spider Robinson novel… which was fine. But then I couldn’t get to sleep for at least another hour after that. I finally crawled from the couch back to the bed at about 3:30am. So I’m off to a bit of a late [...]
Just got back from downtown Portland, where a peace rally and two marches (one had a permit, the other had anarchists) just wrapped up — so far, all seems to have gone quite, well, peacefully, which is a good thing. As for how many people… it’s hard to say. Definitely at least 10,000, [...]
I just got an amusing phone call from my dad. He says someone emailed him a database with program data at about 1:10pm, and by 1:45pm, my dad had sent back a report in a Word document containing (among other things) several charts produced by my analyzer application. Dad said, “It blew his [...]
Well, I’m now most of the way through the useful portions of the C# book, and while it’s been a nice, broad overview of the C# language syntax and capabilities, it could have been a lot more useful in terms of how to actually accomplish anything beyond its own carefully-scripted examples. Fortunately, I have [...]