“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ~Anais Nin
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July 31, 2007 at 9:55am
by Mike The office I’m in right now would probably have me shipped to shipped to Siberia for even reading an article like this… oh well, sometimes one has to be a little flexible in their interpretations of corporate policy in order to properly execute one’s priorities.
That sounds nice and defensible, doesn’t it?
Productivity: 10 things your IT [...]
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July 31, 2007 at 9:18am
by Mike Good selection, totally worth it for the movie clips!
List of 50 best movie robots of all time, with video
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin on Jul 30, 2007
Xeni Jardin:
The guys at Times Online (UK) have compiled a list of the 50 coolest movie robots, measured with the following factors in [...]
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July 26, 2007 at 8:04pm
by Mike Hey, if I wanted something that just worked out of the box, I’d have got another Mac.
Actually, I tried to get another Mac, just couldn’t justify the finances when I added in the price of a full version of Windows to run all my biz software.
Point is, Linux, even a flavour as refined as Ubuntu, [...]
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July 26, 2007 at 11:46am
by Mike I admit, I’ve become one of those “pile, then file” e-mail guys, with hundreds of messages in my inbox that I’ll go through and label/file in one huge blitz every couple months. It’s that dang GMail! Google search is just so convenient that I don’t need to bother organizing anything!
Bad form, I know. [...]
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July 26, 2007 at 11:23am
by Mike More of that kind of music that makes people go “what the heck is that, and where you do find this stuff??”
MP3 Mixtapes: Balkan hotsteppaz, hardcore klezmer, Roma rap, Raï
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin on Jul 26, 2007
Xeni Jardin:
(1) A Belgian DJ named Typsy Gypsy (half of the Balkan Hot Stepsoundsystem [...]
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July 25, 2007 at 3:58pm
by Mike I am writing this post from my brand new install of Ubuntu 7.04 (aka: Fiesty Fawn) on my HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop (aka: work computer).
Came with Vista… hate it.Dual-boot installed XP for legacy industry software… still hate it.
Sick of the crashes, freezes, stupidly slow response times to the most basic requests.
Been reading about this Ubuntu [...]
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July 25, 2007 at 2:40pm
by Mike Being the resident unofficial techie of my friends, family, and now office, I’m going to allow myself an extra 3d6 minutes of blogging, screwing around with Ubuntu, and randomly flipping through Userfriendly archives.
Geek-break begins… well… I guess about 5 minutes ago when I started writing this.
ahhhh…
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
via WWdN: In Exile by wil@wilwheaton.net [...]
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July 25, 2007 at 9:10am
by Mike A bit of movie-geek fun. I’ve been getting more and more into listening to commentary tracks on movies that I enjoy, so I find it really interesting to hear these directors talk about their memories and experiences from the same side of the camera as I am (ie: watching the movies, not making them). [...]
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July 25, 2007 at 8:42am
by Mike Interesting… I haven’t quite yet come across the need for such paranoia in my own communications, but it’s good to know my options.
If you’re dating a cryptography geek, you should totally embed a steamy love note inside a cutesy romantic picture and then get him/her to figure it out. They’d be totally impressed!
How To: [...]
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July 25, 2007 at 8:41am
by Mike This is a great list of quick-hit meals… and most of them actually sound pretty good! I’m always looking for something to throw down my gullet between running in the door after work and running out the door to whatever we’re doing that day.
101 Simple Meals
via Dethroner by Joel on Jul 25, 2007
Most guys [...]