Whatever's tugging at my brain handles
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life on May 12th, 2008
I previously wrote about how lame I am (BTW - I didn't get the job... ), but today, I include my wife in the geekery.
If you've read my blog assiduously, all three of you, you know we enjoy BBC America and some of its sci-fi and comedy offerings. Anyhoo, we were watching "That [...]
Posted in Art, Just Personal, Technology & Life on Mar 30th, 2008
READ ALL THE INSTALLMENTS: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 [here]
So, originally the plan had been to do 8 separate art pieces for my wife for our anniversary (which was today), then combine them all into one big piece and print and frame it for her. Eight is still the eventual goal, [...]
Posted in Job Hunting, Technology & Life on Mar 7th, 2008
So I just got another check cashing scam. The subject was "Make $225 And More Every Day" and instead of text, they used a graphic. Inside the e-mail, they repeated the "Make $225 And More Every Day" plus a link to their scam site at fallseagull.com. A check into the registration on [...]
Posted in Success, Technology & Life on Mar 7th, 2008
Just got yet another notification that I won a lottery I did not enter. How many lotteries can I win in a day?
CONFIRMATION OF YOUR EMAIL REF NUMBER
You have won USD850,000.00 in BELGISCHE LOTTERY Email Sweepstakes Progam Corporation, held on the 5th of MARCH. 2008.in Belgium.We write to officially notify you of this award [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life on Dec 6th, 2007
After many announcements of cool new features... which I've been too scared to try after a development build of Inkscape crashed on save and trashed an hour of work... Inkscape announced a "chill" for the 0.46 release of their awesome vector drawing program!
Over the next couple of months, they'll be fixing up bugs, heading toward [...]
Posted in Society, Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life on Sep 5th, 2007
To those who actually say "content wants to be free" with a straight face and seriousness of purpose...
"Content wants to be free" makes as much sense as "content wants to be a fireman" or "music is a Republican."
When you say "content wants to be free," you actually mean, "I don't want to pay for content" [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Thoughts, Technology & Life on Aug 23rd, 2007
So, I was googling some old friends from my days at Santa Monica College in the early 90s, and one generates no hits. None. It almost seems impossible that in the mass of pages indexed by Google, that someone as outgoing and quirky as Roy wouldn't end up at least getting mentioned on [...]
Posted in Politics & Religion, Society, Technology & Life on May 6th, 2007
There's an old joke in which a man asks a woman if she'd sleep with him for a million dollars. After some thought, she says yes. Then he asks her if she'd sleep with him for 50 dollars. She says, "of course not! What kind of girl do you think I am?"
"We've [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life on Apr 24th, 2007
Apparently Opera is touting how its mobile version has outpaced Apple's Safari browser for market share... in Ukraine.
Is it just me or is this a non-story? In this PC World story on the topic, they say it's proof that mobile browsing is growing. But look at the percentages... 0.3% and 0.2%. That [...]
Posted in Job Hunting, Society, Technology & Life on Apr 15th, 2007
What kind of jobs do you think would ask for applicants with a sense of humor? You might be surprised.
Though I'm not unemployed, I am underemployed. So a little while ago, I began job hunting in the Seattle area. Considering that I have seen many of my jokes float around the net, [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life on Feb 20th, 2007
Over the years, my friends have looked at me with puzzled expressions as I've tried to describe two of the oddest commercials I've ever seen. In one, a kid won't drink his orange juice until Robert Loggia tells him it's good, prompting Loggia to waltz through the door of the kid's suburban home and [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life, Web Programming on Feb 15th, 2007
Following up on the Microsoft Soapbox vs. Google Video comparison, I thought I'd try YouTube, despite some prior problems putting my videos on YouTube.
Whaddaya know? YouTube took the video.
Now, I still prefer Microsoft's upload process to YouTube's, mainly because of that progress meter. Like Google, YouTube uses a simple animation to indicate [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life, Web Programming on Feb 15th, 2007
When I read today that Microsoft had taken its YouTube killer out of limited beta and opened it up for public beta, I had to go try it out right away.
The first nice bit was that I could login with my Hotmail e-mail address and password. Basically, I already had an account.
To really test [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life on Jan 31st, 2007
In the recent release candidates for the next version of Parallels Desktop for Mac they've offered a new feature called "Coherence". Essentially what it does is let you minimize the Windows desktop and let your Windows programs run on the Mac desktop, even having the different programs in the OSX dock.
I'd been planning to [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life on Jan 28th, 2007
Though I recently switched to Mac, I've been thinking of why I wouldn't reccomend it to my parents. I came to an understanding of the barriers to changing your OS or software, based in large part on how people learn to use those things.
People who have learned the underlying concepts ("conceptual users") can more [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life on Jan 19th, 2007
I met my wife on Match.com. A number of years back, that might have been something people were ashamed to admit, as if using an online dating site implied an embarrassing sense of desperation, but over time, people have started to accept dating/singles sites as a useful tool and they're no longer the [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories, Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life on Dec 20th, 2006
While discussing a meeting place with some friends, one mentioned a favorite spot at a place where he got a strong wireless connection and it had an outlet. The way he almost waxed poetic on it, another friend said his description sounded like it should be a verse in the "Cheers" theme.
So, given that [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life on Dec 13th, 2006
I just got an e-mail from UCLA notifying me that I might be one of the 800,000 or so people whose personal data was compromised in a major data security breach.
Oddly, I'm not a UCLA alumnus nor have I ever worked for them. I took a night class there in 1997. Yeah, one [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Technology & Life on Dec 13th, 2006
So, I just got this e-mail from Wells Fargo. It looked really official and well done. It was lacking all the stupid spelling errors many dumbass phishers make. But it still raised a bunch of red flags for me because all the links went to wellsfargo.rsc03.net. Now does rsc03.net look like [...]