Last month I finally decided to upgrade my laptop. I’d been running the old Toshiba since 2007. At the time it was a powerhouse. It still served me well right up to the end, when a BSOD finally forced my hand. I probably would have upgraded in the next few months anyway. I’d been window [...]
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Do People Wear Watches to Tell Time?
The other day I noticed someone wearing a nice watch. I thought to myself “when was the last time I wore a watch?” It’s been at least two years. In high school and college, I always had a watch on. For me, it was partially about the style, but mostly about always being able to [...]
How I Worked Last Wednesday
Most weeks I go to the warehouse on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, leaving Wednesday and Thursday to – in theory – work from home. I say “in theory” because those days always get filled with errands and the gym and lunches with friends, especially lately because during the holidays I was at the warehouse more [...]
I Just Tried Google Chrome OS And…
I think people are kind of missing the point. If you haven’t had a chance, watch the short video below and read the live blog of the event from TechCrunch. I installed it as a virtual machine using VirtualBox, as you can see in the picture above. Given that there aren’t any guest additions, it’s [...]
Computing in 2019
On my way to work I’ve been listening to a bunch of the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Podcasts. They are all fascinating. I feel like it’s such a better use of my time than just listening to music. I actually look forward to my drives because these talks just turn my creative side loose. The [...]
Why The Release of IE8 Matters (to us at least)
Yesterday Microsoft finally released the latest version of the Internet Explorer browser, IE8, which can now be downloaded from Microsoft’s official site. Hopefully within a few weeks it will get pushed to people via Windows updates and the majority of people using IE7 right now will be upgraded to IE8. Why do I say hopefully? [...]
Pimp My Desktop
One of my favorite things to read are the Featured Desktop posts on Lifehacker. For anyone who isn’t familiar, they basically take very unique Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop setups and explain how to configure your computer to look and act just like the featured desktop. While they all vary quite a bit, the common [...]
Back Up Your Shit People!
My jaw dropped when I read on Lifehacker that blogging service JournalSpace went under a few days ago because all of their data got erased! More specifically, according to JournalSpace themselves: Journalspace is no more. Here is what happened: the server which held the journalspace data had two large drives in a RAID configuration. As [...]
A Wacky End to ’08
It was New Year’s Eve. Mike, George, and I would normally be out at a party, but because we were all sick and the weather sucked, we all were home resting. Around 8 PM I woke up from a nap and made my way over to my computer to read my feeds, when I noticed [...]
Hello Songbird, Goodbye iTunes
I love open source software. There’s something fascinating to me about a community of passionate developers being able to release highly customizable software that is equal to or better than the commercial alternatives. As I wrote in a post last year, our company uses almost all open source software, both because of the affordability and [...]
