So the sun is shining a bit brighter on my technical woes. Last weekend, my satellite internet connection at my cabin was back where it should be (800-1000 kbs download and 150-200 kbs upload), not exactly the DSL speed at home, but that’s as good as Hughes gets. However, that’s not to say their support […]
After some intense days this week (three > 2 AM nights, more on that later), it was nice to kick back and just sift through some neglected RSS injected content in my aggregator. So I was reading Gardner Campbell describe In My Life, where he shares the moments of his transition from University of Mary […]
The patent eager folks at Bb seemed to have missed a crucial earlier patent which usurps everything they claim: Socrates Awarded Patent on Learning Methodology ATHENS–(BUSINESS LIAR)–July 26, 440 BC–Socrates Inc. (NASDAQ:SOCRA), a leading provider of philosophical ideas and services to the education industry, announced that it has been issued a U.S. patent for the […]
Sigh, I am resigning myself that my MacBookPro may be a fruit more in the citrus family. Three days after a 12 day stint to the Apple Repair Facility in Somewhereville, the backlit screen is no longer lit, so off it goes again. “It will be a priority, but expect it to be a week”. […]
Ahh, a fresh Wired magazine hits my door step, and right there in the “rants” section, who else leads but Stephen Downes correcting a myth published in their feature on Superman: “The Myth of Superman” (issue 14.06) tells this tale: “Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster “¦ created [Superman] as a char-acter in a newspaper comic […]
I am ready to dump all of this technology stuff and go to work raking leaves or painting houses. It was just last week my MacBookPro came back from its two week vacation to replace its fan and logic board. And now today, its screen is dimmed to about 2% of its brightness, so much […]
Just as Tim noted Google Video is making it so we can pick an arbitrary start point to play a video clip, now you can do the same with audio clips on Odeo: Someone send me an email asking how to link to a specific part of a podcast in Odeo, which is a little-known […]
flickr foto Cut on the Dotted Lines (1)available on flickr Phase 12 of our pool remodel job– half of our decking is in sad shape due to settling, so tomorrow it gets jack hammered out. Or this is yet another iteration of Levine’s Law of Presentations… "Start with the _______" A visual representation for so-called […]
flickr foto It’s Back!available on flickr There’s joy in Sun-ville! My MacBookPro has returned, outfitted with a new fan, logic board, and something else I am forgetting. And for speed, I added another 1 Gb of RAM. Let’s Rock! With all new guts… it was almost 2 weeks since I took in the MBP because […]
Not that it matters on any cosmic scale, but for what it’s likely not worth, a blog funk has settled slowly in ’round here. I’m up to my ears in various web dabblings, way behind in checking out cool new stuff from elsewhere and others, still waiting for may MacBookPro to be fixed, still waiting […]
