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Trudging through the Lord of the Rings Part 3
I finished up The Two Towers a week or so ago and I have to say that “Trudging” no longer describes my experience (for the most part). While I preferred the first movie to the first book, I mostly feel exactly the opposite about the second book/movie. The only annoying thing was that we didn’t…
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Is it Obsolete? Evangelism
Welcome to my new series where I wonder if some concepts and technologies are now obsolete thanks to our new paradigms and technologies. Today’s topic – evangelism. Short term readers of my blog will think I only write about Linux and technology. Long term readers will know that I’m a Christian. I was brought up …
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A Macro-blog Post about Micro-blogging
I’ve known about micro-blogging for 1-2 years now – ever since I first started hearing about Twitter. Up until now I’ve been vehemently against the whole micro-blogging trend. To begin with, it requires anyone who wants to keep up with my writing to check yet another website! On top of that, I just can’t see…
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Gnome 3.0 Announced!
This will be a few days old by the time this blog post appears on the site, but Gnome 3.0 is set to come out by 2010! This is huge news! Ever since Gnome started getting into the 2.2x series, people have constantly been asking about when Gnome 3.0 would be coming out. Since the…
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Play the web? Testing out additional functionality in Songbird
One of the killer features of Songbird is that when you view web pages with MP3s, it presents a very easy way for you to download the songs. I noticed on my last.fm home page that there were a few free MP3s available for download, so I decided to test this out. I went to…
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Last.fm Beta – A Preview
Last.fm is getting close to relaunching their site and I was invited to participate in the beta program. I think the new design has some great new features and I wanted to share it with you so you could get excited about it too. Here’s the main page as it appears now: The most important…
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Twitter-like Post: State of the Web – Summer 2008
Someone with a bit of artistic creativity has decided to create an illustrated view of all the big news of the year. I like it so much, I can’t wait to see his work no Fall 2008 and so on. Check it out, here.
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Taking another look at Songbird
It’s been a really long time since I last looked at Songbird. In fact, according to my blog, the last time I checked it out was version 0.2 back in October of 2006. The UI certainly has a bit more polish. I submitted some bug reports on their Bugzilla about Metadata problems with WMAs and…
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Karate Pictures Moving Up
Moving up in Views Groups and thought I’d share them.
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Open Source Chicken and Egg
My wife’s aunt’s computer was always getting full of viruses. I’d spend a few hours every time I came to visit removing the viruses and get the computer back to a working state. Sounds like the perfect job for….. Linux! All she does on her computer is email and watch videos – that’s it. Plus,…
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MacGyver gets Lazy
Second best xkcd this month!