I’m Now using Chrome
Well, I’ve decided to make the move. I have switched from Firefox to Google Chrome. I’ve always had Chrome on my system, as someone who does websites, you have several. On my system, I have IE, Chrome, Opera, Firefox, & Safari. In years gone by, that was a requirement, as you needed to check how your sites looked in different browsers. Going into 2012, that’s less of an issue. For the most part they don’t have the egregiously different displays that they used to. Still, old habits die hard. Recently, I’ve started having slowdown problems with Firefox. It was’t awful, but I was still dealing with some long standing issues hanging around the browser for awhile. Sometimes it would just stall out, and when you quit, it’s...
Read MoreWaking Up Full of Awesome
There was a time when you were five years old, and you woke up full of awesome. You knew you were awesome. You loved yourself. You thought you were beautiful, even with missing teeth and messy hair and mismatched socks inside your grubby sneakers. You loved your body, and the things it could do. You thought you were strong. You knew you were smart. Do you still have it? The awesome. Did someone take it from you? Did you let them? Did you hand it over, because someone told you weren’t beautiful enough, thin enough, smart enough, good enough? Why the hell would you listen to them? Did you consider they might be full of shit? Wouldn’t that be nuts, to tell my little girl below that in another five or ten years she might hate herself because she doesn’t look...
Read MoreSteve Jobs RIP
Steve Jobs died today. Here’s some news on it. It certainly adds weight as to why he didn’t make an appearance at the iPhone 4S presser yesterday. I didn’t write either of these two remarks, but I echo them exactly. Thanks to Chris F for these.. “For a man I never met, Steve Jobs had an undeniable and unmeasurable impact on my life, my career, and my daily affairs. Rest in peace.” “Saw the Steve Jobs news when I loaded up apple.com on my iPad to get info on the iPhone 4S and iOS5. That says so much about his impact.” This one below is mine, though. The filename of the image on apple.com of Steve Jobs’ RIP msg was “t_hero.jpg“. Tells you what someone there thinks of...
Read MoreChoosing an Antenna
I had to cut cable TV earlier this year due to money issues, and from about May till September I was operating with good old rabbit ears in the house. When they worked, it worked great. But I was getting fed up of the constant moving of the rabbit ears, or the twiddling of the dial to get this channel or the other. There was some sort of interference inside my house preventing them from working well enough. Once in a blue moon, I’d get lucky, find a sweet spot and get everything, but it didn’t last long. I was unwilling to go on the roof for an antenna, so I was thinking about the attic. I’ve been around TV for a long time, and my “head” tells me that to get better reception, you need to get a bigger antenna. I figured with a large...
Read MoreGoodbye Duke Nukem
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6) Today is August 31, 2011. It’s a day that’s fairly odd for me emotionally. It’s in some ways the end of the road for the biggest single “event” in my working career. You see, today’s my last day at Gearbox Software. But before I get to that, let me rewind the clock a bit. Going back to early 1992. I was living in Philadelphia then, and I was big into the BBS scene. Ran first an Apple // BBS, and then a PC BBS. Both operated under the name “The Arsenal of Freedom” (a Star Trek: TNG Episode title). Given the time then, I used to carry Apogee Software...
Read MoreStreaming Doctor Who Online
Those who know me know I’m a big Doctor Who dork. Earlier this year, I did this video, which is a complete comprehensive tribute to the series (with clips of every single story from 1963 to 2010). Earlier today I had a friend ask me on Facebook about where he should start with watching the classic series. He’d finally finished watching all the modern series stuff, and was curious about the past. Got to talking, and he was thinking of checking out some of the stuff streaming online. I pointed out that while the modern Doctor Who is 100% covered online in terms of story streaming (save for the odd special bit like Time Crash), but the classic series is not. So I decided to look into the status of every classic Doctor Who story, and...
Read MoreGetting rid of Stinky Milk
For some reason, as I’ve gotten older, handy household tips like this have drawn my attention. I posted one myself about two months ago about using old candle wax as an air freshener. My wife also had a good one about mildly reducing heat by putting a tea kettle over an oven burner after you’ve been using it to reduce the amount of heat (or increase depending on the season) put off into the room. However, today I’m talking about stinky milk. This comes into play if your house recycles. I suppose it could still be useful if you throw out your plastic, but I don’t see it as a big a deal as that. With four people in the household, including two kids, we go through a decent amount of milk. Not an obscene amount, but we consume our...
Read MoreSaving Money with Candles
I like candles. Always have. I have bought them for ages, burned a virtual infinite number of them. Used to burn them at work too, until some moron I worked with left his burning after he left for the night, so nobody was allowed to burn candles at work. Grr.. Heck, during my unemployment period, I applied to work at the Yankee Candle store in Garland not too far from me. You want a good gift idea for me? Gift certificate to Yankee Candle Store! Seriously though, I’ve never been a big person to get all handy and save money by doing “Martha Stewart” types of things. I’m generally a “it’s done? Throw it out, get another one” kind of person. But for some reason, what about I’m about to post...
Read MoreHulu vs Hulu Plus
As an Xbox owner, I’ve paid close attention to the offerings on Xbox LIVE Gold, as I’ve been a member of that since it’s inception. My profile bears the “8″ mark, which means I’ve been a member for eight years. I was one of the people chosen from the public to test the service before it launched on Xbox 1. Anyway, my point here is that I’m aware that they’re finally going to get Hulu Plus as a video option on XBL two days from now. My post here is about Hulu, and not so much Xbox, it’s just the launch on Xbox made me want to ask this. Why does Hulu Plus not allow you to watch the “regular, free” Hulu videos and episodes? Hulu has been around for a long time, and I’ve used it...
Read MoreMy Kindle and the library
This week I noticed that Amazon is finally adding a much needed, and puzzlingly absent feature from their Kindles. That’s the ability to borrow a book from the public library. Long available in the Barnes & Noble Nook reader, this feature will come to Amazon’s Kindle sometime later in 2001. About bloody time! This has long been the Achilles heel of the Kindle. That, and ePub support. ePub is a public format. And is how other eReaders get other formats onto their readers. Sony and BN have touted this as a advantage over Kindle for some time. As a Kindle owner since the first model, I don’t personally see the ePub restriction as a big deal. Hover, the inability to get a book from the library WAS. I always wished I could do that. At some...
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