The worst idea ever, Windows Genuine Advantage, is creeping into people’s machines and phoning home to Microsoft with information about your PC. I know that you don’t all have genuine copies of Windows, so if you’re getting giant notices about the authenticity of your copy of Windows, it may just be time to download [...]
A rather late bugfix release for the current stable branch of Wordpress was released to the masses a few days ago weekend. I upgraded my blog Saturday morning but haven’t had a chance to blog about it because I was in Chicago all weekend.
You can grab a zip or tarball here. Upgrade away, [...]
The “I was making tarballs of my important data for backup purposes and completely forgot about FRT, so the following are from my limited selection (68 albums) at work” edition
Vast • Pretty When You Cry
Daniel Landa • Rex Tremendæ
Spoon • My Mathematical Mind
Neurosis • Falling Unknown
Aqualung • Breaking My Heart
Opeth • The Leper Affinity
Coldplay • [...]
Thunderbird, the Mozilla Foundation’s open-source e-mail browser, has been incrementally upgraded to fix some security problems and to quash some other bugs. Get it now or check your repos.
Changelog below the fold.
The latest incremental release of everybody’s beloved browser (except you, Rusty) has hit the servers. Get it from the servers while it’s hot (link currently goes to FTP server because the load-balancer from the GetFirefox homepage is currently down).
Changelog below the fold.
obstreperous
adj. Noisily and stubbornly defiant; aggressively boisterous
I’m almost obstreperous, except for the noisy part. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I am obstinate or even obdurate, which mean basically the same thing.
All three words sound like they could come from the same family. In fact, obstinate comes from the [...]
For those of you who don’t know, YouOS is a so-called “Web OS,” currently still in alpha testing, that serves as a sort of portal, except that it seeks to emulate a desktop environment of a modern operating system.
The Tour
YouOS
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I was able to snag an account, and after having to wait for a while [...]
Frank Caliendo, a brilliant impressionist. Does John Madden, Dubya, Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters, Chris Farley, Robin Williams, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro as Frankenstein, Keanu Reeves, Fred and Barney, the male cast of Seinfeld, and probably others I can’t remember.
Muse is the band that everybody loves to hate. Whether they’re too similar to Radiohead, too similar to Coldplay, too similar to [insert artrock band here]; whether Matt Bellamy’s voice is like a hot knife in the eardrum or the constant bombardment of out-of-place techno sound or the love of amplified distortion; [...]
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