From Boing Boing
We’re really talking Meta here: The audience who’d instantly get this joke would be anyone who works in the Web Ghetto, and old-school nerds like myself. But consider this: this joke wouldn’t exist 30 years ago. Comic Sans was invented in 1994 and I’m not sure when the Comic Sans backlash started. [...]
I had a real adventure last night, installing Windows 7. I ran into a problem so infuriating, and yet so completely boneheaded and ridiculous that I had to laugh. It’s described here. In essence, if you bought the EDU $29.95 Windows 7 Home Premium from Microsoft, the download file won’t actually work [...]
So I tried a little experiment last night. To try and see if I could get better latency for my firewire audio interface, I downloaded the specific driver for my Firewire PCI card. In case you haven’t had the ‘pleasure’ of their acquaintance, if you have a TI Chipset firewire card, the drivers are [...]
Something has been irking me that probably should not. To wit: electronic messages that don’t say anything but “That’s Excellent!” or “Nice job!” or “Happy Birthday!”
Maybe it’s rude of me to be irked, but messages that have information other than that seem kind of pointless. They are, in effect, like the ‘ACK’ in communications protocol, [...]
1. Steamed artichokes tonight, I guess now is the season, they were great. Discovered a new garnish for dipping — Squirt a bit of Sriracha sauce into Hellmans Mayonaise (or Best Foods to you left-coasters!). Insane good. Also: recommended by the cute checkout womanl at New Pioneer Co-op — thai chili paste [...]
So way back when a friend who worked pretty high up at Microsoft signed me up as a Windows beta tester, something I never really took seriously once I realized what a PITA Vista was. But it did have it’s benefits — I was a Windows 7 Beta Tester as well, something I didn’t [...]
The big buzz (and trending Twitter topic of the day) is Google OS. This will apparently comprise a minimal Linux Kernel, a graphical rendering engine, and Google Chrome. It will be perfect for what people spend 95% of their computing time on: dicking around in a web browser, and running web [...]
So for ‘fun’ I ran http://www.cornwarning.com/Tickertape through the W3C Markup Validator.
Actually, the thing I was concerned about is that the page looked fucked up in IE8, and presumably other browsers. Haven’t rechecked it yet, since I’m on a Mac at work. But at a minimum it found a bunch of small coding errors. No [...]
I figured this out yesterday, and it is the sort of thing a lot of people would like to do and haven’t figured out yet.
First off, this is the audio player:
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
and you can read up on it at the AudioPlayer website. It’s very easy to integrate in [...]
You can pre-order Windows 7 upgrades 1/2 price right now, which is kind of a good deal. If you don’t need a 64-bit OS right effing now, you’ll never get a better deal.
What I don’t get is this:”There are a limited number of copies available. The offer will end when they’re gone, or July [...]
So I have 2 Western Digital drives to send back and the one big Seagate. On the one hand that will be 2.5 terabytes of disk space to stick somewhere when I get them back. On the other hand, I have to like physically put them in boxes and mail them.
Oh well, I’ve [...]
I just had a brand new 1.5TB hard drive fail, making it the 4th hard drive to fail in my desktop system since the beginning of the year. So far I’ve lost 2 IDE drives and 2 SATA drives.
What’s confusing to me is that there are 3 drives in the system that have had [...]
Thanks to Ronnie from Rekkerd.org for the tip — you can now move forwards and backwards in time in my blog. I will at some point replace the text tags with images, Preferably pointing skeleton hand with flaming torches.
It points up something a little annoying about Wordpress. The entry on post_nav_link neglects to [...]
I’ve now gotten three unsolicited requests for help setting up websites. This is flattering of course, and you know, but other than general figure-shit-out skills developed as a programmer for 25 years, I’ve very little web-specific knowlege — just what I know to get by. A more accurate way to put it [...]
UAD-1e Express Pack at AudioMidi.com for $99
Apparently Audiomidi isn’t the only place with this deal, but it’s an insane price. It lists at $499, and Audiomidi regularly has them at $299. At that price, you can buy more than one, and the drivers support up to 4 in one system.
This is a SHARC [...]
After my last post, and a few more days of free-floating annoyance, I took the plunge and uninstalled EndPoint. Instead I put on AVG Free. Everything about AVG Free feels faster and less intrusive than EndPoint, and it did find all the same virii on the few infected files I had laying around. [...]
Yesterday I noticed two things: google searches were getting hijacked, and I couldn’t run certain programs, particularly cmd.exe and regedit.exe.
I always think that I can beat those fucking viruses and trojans, but 5 hours spent hammering on the problem with a multitude of programs, and a lot of google searching convinced me I needed to [...]
Testing the Livejournal cross-post plugin. If it works, you won’t have to friend the scarycrusher feed on Livejournal if you want to see my blog posts…
And if that makes no sense at all to you, as you were!
Tonight I wanted to print a mailing label for something I sold on Ebay. I didn’t have the printer driver installed for our HP6980, so I went looking for it.
I found it and installed it. It made me reboot and then did some more stuff after rebooting. But what it didn’t do, apparently, is [...]