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Laptop, hosed
Following on the heels of my desktop PC’s timely death, the Windows installation on my laptop yesterday shit itself. Max is telling me it’s all about Baby OS, so maybe…
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Keep it real
There are some fools claiming it’s all about WordPress. Get real, have you really read your master’s teachings? Is it not apparent with each link he magically conjures up in…
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The lowdown on iTunes
xkcd, bioooooootch!
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truth in xkcd
This is so, so true. Everybody always knows it’s my phone ringing. I used to use ringtones but reverted to ringing. A ringing sound is very easy to hear and…
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chkdsk /f
Running chkdsk in read only mode (without the /f handle) is a big waste of time. I didn’t really know that until today. I pulled a 250Gb SATA drive out…
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Google Chrome Easter Eggs
Well, just one Easter egg, actually, but other related pages. For the Easter Egg, just type about:internets in the address bar of Chrome and hit Enter. (BTW does anyone else…
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Google Chrome Plug-in Crash
This is what happens when the Flash plug-in crashes in Chrome: I like it so much I think I’ll start using it as my avatar for everything.
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Chromatic
Currently testing out Google’s new browser (the rollout is Windows-only for now). It seems pretty cool, but the absolute coolest thing so far has been the comic strip documentation. Google…
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New Toy – 19xx Yamaha Chappy
This is an original ad for my new (old) toy, a Yamaha Chappy most probably made in the seventies, imported from Japan into Thailand. Actually, it has all the signs…
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A couple tech links
These are really good: Our Electric Future by Andy Grove (of Intel fame) A Trio of Videos of Neal Stephenson Talking About SF
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Crude/Elegant S-Video connector hack for solving B&W output on Nvidia graphic cards
The title basically sums it up. I think it’s really stupid that Nvidia hasn’t fixed the TV output issues for several years, through tens of driver upgrades. Anyway, I tore…
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Hiropro Gear Update
This is a quick update to my post from a few years ago, entitled, Stephenson as Prophet. A company called Dainese (apparently not Italian for “Die Chinese”) has developed a…
