I installed Picasa for Linux on my parents’ PC last night and I’m very pleased with the results. Previously I had them running the Windows executable via WINE, but performance and reliability were poor. Now they’ve got a solid way to upload and share photos.
My parents bought their current PC about five years [...]
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For the last few years I’ve been working on a lot of small and mid-size affiliate marketing projects, and I’ve decided to begin spending some of the capital I have at this blog in the advancement of my affiliate empire.
So to begin, I give you Decorative Solar, a new blog I set up to take [...]
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OK, I had a high school flashback the other day and remembered what is probably the smartest - or at least the most clever - thing I’ve ever done.
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I got so much traffic from my iPod write-up that I thought I’d mention a trick I discovered several years ago. When I had my brand-spanking-new anodized aluminum 12″ Powerbook just a few months in the spring of 2003, I put an irregular-shaped CD in the slot drive and it got stuck. (The [...]
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I’m a bit bemused to find that someone is trying to hack into my Google Earth account. I received an email yesterday from the product’s authentication server indicating that someone was requesting a temporary password for the account. The IP address of the offender is in Chicago.
I can’t imagine why anyone would do [...]
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Allow me to be the last person to write about Krucoff’s dismissal from Conde Nast as a result of “leaking” an email to Gawker. As the person who introduced Andrew to the Gawker Media crowd in 2003, I take full responsibility for the utter destruction of his life in the intervening two and a [...]
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I recently installed a piece of open source software called phpGedView. “GEDCOM” is the database tagging system developed a few decades back by the Mormon Church, which is big into genealogy and retroactive baptism of the ancestors of its converts. The phpGedView code base takes existing GEDCOM files and makes them easy to [...]
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I love G4 TV. The network recently did a delightful show on how the 1984 E.T. game for the 2600 killed the video game business for ten years. And truth told, I bought a Commodore Vic-20 on the same day E.T. opened, using my snow-shovelling money. (A couple years ago I addressed [...]
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All three of my uncles and my maternal grandfather Harry Ten Broeck made careers of electrical work or electrical engineering. One of my uncles helped build Telsat, and my grandfather installed the electrical conduit that powers the lights atop the Chrysler Building. Harry’s father Charles was a book printer on Manhattan’s Lower East [...]
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I like comics; newspaper comics, comic books, manga, graphic novels, all of it. I especially like comics with a single creator - there’s something pure about seeing words and pictures that come from the same mind, both trying to convey the same concept.
By the time I started reading them, newspaper comics already [...]
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