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Quote of the day

“I wanted to do science… he wanted an impossible fantasy. He wants to chase unicorns, when he could be genetically modifying the structure of a horse’s skull!” From Snowflakes.

Stuck with a crappy mouse

I forgot to charge my Really Great Mouse (the Logitech MX Revolution, if you care). It lasts for a week on a charge, so it’s easy to forget. So I switched to whatever I could find as an emergency backup mouse — in this case, a super-cheap Logitech NX50 notebook mouse. Erg. What junk. How [...]

DVRs and the TV industry — told you so

Nice piece from the Electronic Frontier Foundation called “DVR Is TV’s New BFF“: Digital Video Recorders (DVRs), once considered a mortal threat by the entertainment industry, have now become its new best friend. It’s just the latest example of how the industry’s constant warnings of the dangers of “piracy” frequently turn out to be baseless hysteria.

In some ways, old media is a l…

In some ways, old media is a lot easier to deal with.

Grrr. Stupid WordPress-Twitter…

Grrr. Stupid WordPress-Twitter-Facebook integration!

Juggling the print magazine, t…

Juggling the print magazine, the online magazine, and the blog. Ah, new (?) media.

It’s Friday afternoon, which m…

It’s Friday afternoon, which means our Internet connection slows to a crawl. Every week.

Enough of the computer. It’s p…

Enough of the computer. It’s pizza time.

5 simple reasons Thunderbird is better than Outlook

Spam filter. Thunderbird has one, and it’s darned good. Outlook doesn’t, although it claims to. It doesn’t catch most spam, and it’s not trainable. Customization. I can change just about anything about Thunderbird’s look and feel. For example, the text size of anything. (In Outlook I can only change the font of the message list; the [...]