Category: General

Or do they? So we’re talking about ants at work today, and how they are attracted to sodas. Somebody mentions that they don’t like diet pop because they don’t like Nutrasweet. My first thought: how can they tell the difference? So home I head ready for a night of internet searching. I found plenty of…

I used to believe the childhood nationalistic hype that had me believing the US was the greatest country ever to grace the earth. Maybe it was naive. Well, OK, it was almost certainly naive, but for a while there it really seemed like I was lucky to have been born on the good guys’ team.…

There is a worthwhile discussion going on over on whatdoiknow.org with respect to organization and computer file naming conventions. I accumulate files on my desktop until I lose track of them, then I’ll package the related files up into a job folder and move it into a current projects folder. Once the job is done,…

What, the heat isn’t enough to keep me awake? When I’m finally drifting off to the land of nod, I need to be rattled out of bed?

It is just uncomfortably warm around these parts today. I live within spitting distance of the ocean, so normally the weather remains remarkably temperate. Naturally that means my place doesn’t have air conditioning. I can’t even imagine what it must be like for the folks further inland or in the valley. They must be ready…

This story about an NBC news crew filming a hacker as he breaks into their own network is funny. But mostly, I’m posting it because I just tickled pink by my tongue in cheek headline. So sue me. Sometimes my tastes run to the lame and juvenile.

I don’t think I’m quite geek enough to make the drive up from LA to San Jose for a nostalgic day of classic video games, but I am exactly geek enough to be really, really tempted.

I used to have a clip light in my bedroom. I say used to because about 5 weeks ago the clip exploded with a surprising crack that reached into my dreams and jerked me out into a shocked panic. I jump up wondering Earthquake? Pipe Bomb? Eventually I worked out what had happened and managed…

Ughm… How the hell do you change folder and file icons in OS X? I upgraded to the latest version of IE, and it ate the IE icon for some reason. I find a file with an IE icon, Command I, Select the Icon – hey, I can’t select the icon. A google search didn’t…

This is a test of Kung-Log, an OS X desktop application for posting to Movable Type. Nice Stuff – built in spell check and formatting. Bad Stuff – no support for Track Back. And, I tend to use the MT Bookmarklet for posting anyway. I do copy my posts over into a text editor for…