I’ve finally jumped on the ipod bandwagon with my silvery blue ipod mini. Don’t know why it took me so long, but it usually takes me a long time to jump on to trends, mostly because I’m overly skeptical. I always think, oh, the next generation will be perfect, but in the end its never […]
After all this glowing praise for the smartboard, I have seem to come a cross a deal breaking flaw? Sometimes I get random x’s and c’s and v’s. I can reproduce it reliably by holding a certain pair of keys down and the hitting another while those are down. Order seems to matter two, and […]
A trick for bringing sandwiches to work: Normally, if you buy a loaf of bread at the beginning of the week, peel off two pieces each day to make a sandwich, and otherwise just leave it sitting out, it’ll get moldy by the end of the week, wasting a good part of the loaf. Putting […]
What does democracy really mean? And to what extent is it alive in Japan? To me it seems there are several aspects to democracy: – Freedom and diversity of ideas: In this regard, I would say Japan is as open and free as any other ‘democtratic’ nation. That isn’t to say that there aren’t taboos […]
To delete all evolution settings: rm -r ~/.evolution rm ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution gconftool-2 –recursive-unset /apps/evolution Evolution stores all the account information in the gconf registry, but the cache stuff in .evolution.
Theres a slashdot story about an academic saying the record companies should charge 5 cents a song online instead of the current 99 cents. That the demand is elastic enough that they would be the ones to benefit. Simple supply and demand, and you can argue all day about whether demand is that elastic, but […]
Somehow my webserver crashed.. I think the host OS crashed, and took the guest down with it. When I logged into the host today, the uptime was only 20 hours or so. I took the opportunity to move the webserver VM that this site is hosted on over to my windows box. Linux host to […]
This seems to be a question that is very relevant to my work, although we don’t quite exactly sell an open source product. I think pretty much what it comes down to, is that there are so far two (plus one) kinds of open source business models. A service-based company (supposedly like redhat) which is […]
Came across this page this morning: Radiation measurements for cell phones on the market. The federal requirement says you have to stay under 1.6, mine is a 1.21. Probably a good thing to look at before buying my next phone. Although, does it mean if you have less radiation then you also get worse reception?
Not much time to write these days.. and it doesn’t really seem like I have an audience anyways. How sad. Bought a DSC-P150 compact 7.2 megapixel camera. Pretty impressed with it so far. This is step 1 in my plan to get rid of the canon g3, and have one take anywhere camera and one […]