Archive for the 'Geek' Category

Why standards-compliant HTML matters

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

This writeup from evolt.org is a great illustration of the same points I’ve been making verbally for the last few weeks… but, this guy just had the time to write it all down.

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

I lost a few geek points last week. My iThing is no longer running Gentoo. It’s now happily running OS X Tiger. For a G3 with 256 megs of ram, it’s quite snappy! Once the new RI.gov is launched, I’m going to mess around with developing a few Dashboard apps — [...]

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

OS X Tiger is on its way to the office! Unfortunately, I’ll have to tie up Dan’s machine to install it on my iThing, because I don’t have a DVD drive. I’ve got to do some nasty tricks to make it work. Should be interesting!

Members of “Al Pieda” throwing pies to disrupt [...]

Happy Tiger Day!

Friday, April 29th, 2005

OS X Tiger was released today, and it looks absolutely awesome. I’m waiting for my copy to arrive to install on the iThing, and I’m hoping to grab a nice new Powerbook at some point too.

Doug FlutieFlakes signing with the Patriots again? Umm… okay. Whatever.
Stupid Dutch are working on a per-gigabyte MP3-player [...]

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

The countdown to OS X Tiger begins. April 29th is the day. I’m buying a copy to run in a separate partition on the iThing and seriously considering getting a Powerbook — especially if work will get it for me.
I’m not the only one sick enough to run LInux on a Mac… [...]

Patented cold-heat technology?

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

I’m not a fan of Radio Shack (a.k.a. Rickety Sh!t). But, I have to give credit where credit is due. Their Cordless Soldering Tool is really cool! It came in quite handy on the still-slightly-unfinished iPod Vibe project, and it’s 100x better than the crappy butane gun that pretty much melted in [...]