Pete on June 24th, 2008

I love this photo from Newsweek:

Microsoft – then and now!

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Pete on June 16th, 2008

On Tuesday the final release of Firefox 3 hits – get it here!

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Pete on May 23rd, 2008

I’d like to share a recent XKCD comic:

That, in turn linked to a brilliant app at xkcd.com/geohashing, along with a link about geohashing.  I’m up on geoCACHing, but this was new.  My favorite part is that there’s this formula that produces these results, but I’m still unsure of what exactly to do with it!  My [...]

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Pete on May 13th, 2008

I found the following video review of Super Smash Bros. Brawl by The Escapist: Zero Punctuation to be highly entertaining.  Especially the follow up response to his critics! (Probably not safe for work, or wear with headphones!)

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Pete on December 11th, 2007

Well, that’s it.  For the second time in a few months (all revolving around changes with my web host, but that’s another story), my Wordpress install was hosed.  Something with the caching mechanism it uses gets screwed up, and I get ugly errors and junk when the pages load.  Last time I lost some comments [...]

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Pete on December 6th, 2007

2 hour software upgrade to make your expensive new phone system actually sound normal: two people, 8 hours on Saturday, 5 hours on Sunday
Elapsed time before end users tell you they are randomly unable to make outbound phone calls, or repeatedly get busy signals, or keypresses don’t register on voicemail: 2 days
4+ hours on the [...]

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Pete on December 3rd, 2007

Here’s a response from our friendly neighborhood cable TV and Internet provider, on if they’ll be upgrading their network to compete with satellite and fiber optic offerings:
Good afternoon,
At this time we have no plans to upgrade our internet speeds, so for the
time being, depending on your location and package, you will be getting
a 4Mbps or [...]

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Pete on November 14th, 2007

An excellent article about what a higher-up in the govt thinks about our privacy online and in general. I’ve caught bits here and there about this, but cripe….scary stuff!

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Pete on October 30th, 2007

Sneak Preview: Gmail Speeds Up, Improves Contacts
Just as I got the domain moved to be hosted by Google, they go and add even more improvements!

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Pete on October 24th, 2007

The bee’s knees.  The cat’s meow.  Last night I was going over some stuff on how to download Gmail messages via POP to a desktop email client like Outlook or Thunderbird, and saw that they had added IMAP access now!  I personally don’t think I’ll go back a desktop email client anymore, but I know [...]

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