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Review: Catching Fire
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins My rating: 4 of 5 stars While the first book was a satire of reality TV (including the wrap up episode), this book is about the importance of controlling messaging and of revolution. Collins explores how The Capital controls what the districts see and know in an effort to limit…
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Upgrading Kuribo
Upgraded my netbook, Kuribo, to Fedora 21. fedup –network 21 –product=nonproduct Went off without a hitch. Like the new login theme. Waiting to make sure the curl in F21 works with Kodi (formerly XBMC) since the current newest version in 20 doesn’t work.
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Fedora 21 Beta KDE Spin Part 1
Booted it up in Virt-manager (which finally has bridging!) I love the new theme! But, sadly, it logs into KDE4, not KDE5. Perhaps 5 isn’t ready for primetime? What I find baffling, given that this is running in a VM is that it loads FASTER to the desktop than the computer it’s running on. I…
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Review: American Gods
American Gods by Neil Gaiman My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you take Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods and combine it with Scott Snyder’s American Vampire, Vol. 1, you’d have a pretty close approximation of what this book is about. Given that this book has been out since 2001, I’m not going to bother with…
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Today in It’s A Binary World Blogging History
One Year Ago Today: Firefox, Google Glass, and WordPress Themes in the Technology Roundup Five Years Ago Today: I promise more Linux reviews I also ruminate on the melancholy of living far from family.
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25th Anniversary of The Web Invites some Introspection
If you’ve been following Internet news recently, you know that the World Wid Web is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year. Lots of people have been talking abou tthe first websites they ever set up. Unfortunately for me, my earliest sites were not captured by the Internet Archive. But I started on the web around…
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My Other Sites
Comic POW! – Along with other writers, I examine themes and trends in comics. I also cover some comics news and comic conventions.
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Podcasts I’m Listening to in 2014
I’ve both added and dropped some podcasts since last time around. Ever since I started using Doggcatcher on my cellphone I’ve been able to listen to more podcasts because, even without the pitch distortion my sandisk had, it plays the content a lot faster. Where I’m listing the same podcast as last year I may…
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Visiting Walt Disney World with a 2 Year Old
For a while during Scarlett’s second year Danielle and I went back and forth on whether we should take Scarlett to Disney just before her second birthday or whether we should wait until she was older. On the one hand – she’s not going to actually remember this trip. Or rather, any memories she has…
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“Commissioned” Art
Here are some of the things Scarlett has asked me to draw. There are a few themes I think you may notice.
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Five Iron Frenzy and Reel Big Fish Concert in Silver Springs, MD
On 6 Nov I went to my 2013 concert. Because of time and money concerns, Danielle and I typically go to a maximum of two concerts a year, and usually just one concert. I was completely unable to resist seeing Five Iron Frenzy in their first tour since breaking up nearly a decade ago. I…
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Dec 2013 Video Games Report
Civilization 5 (5 hours): Still haven’t caught up on the blog posts. Still entirely consists of games with Dan and Dave. Dan gifted me the latest expansion pack during the Winter Steam Sale, so I may fire up a solo game. Time will tell – I still have a ton of indie games from Humble…
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Header 1.0
My stats say there have already been 43 visits today, so some of you may have seen the header while in its state of flux. After talking it over with the wife (who also thinks the new theme looks more pro! yay!) and sleeping on it, I got the header to about 1.0 stage. I…
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Moved Things Around
I’m not somewhere between halfway and three-quarters done with fixing the site to align with my new theme. I moved all but the ads to the footer. (No one’s going to pay to not be seen) I actually like the new design philosophy. Why constantly distract the viewer’s eye form your content with links to…