Entries from December 2006

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

Dear Microsoft Entourage Team

I h8 you. Sure, I have a lot more e-mail than most folks, and I understand that performance might be affected by the quantity, and for the most part Entourage still works pretty good with 200,000+ email messages (except where it hangs for 15 minutes at a time while it is doing something once in [...]

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Why I sometimes hate Christmas

The flipside of the Seatac Airport Trees incident is the right wing’s continual battle against the non-existant War on Christmas. So the LA Times points out that this is really a nice cash making scheme for at least some on the right: ‘War on Christmas’ has a new jingle: money. Now, as a Jewish person [...]

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Sony, you disappoint me

Back in 2000, I was looking at the coming technological convergence centered around the living room. At the time, you had two players, Sony and Microsoft. (Apple hadn’t really entered the picture yet). There was no question who was going to win, it was Sony. Sony had just released the PS2 and it was impressive. [...]

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Leo iz a z00n h8t0r

[thanks digg]

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Apple Keynote Safety Dates

[via gizmodo] If there is one rule for mac die-hards, it is do not buy any apple product in December or July. The reason why is simple: Apple makes big product announcements in August (at WWDC) and in January (at MacWorld). There are sometimes smaller announcements sprinkled throughout the year, but you gotta buy that [...]

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

The Dresden Dolls

remind me why I listen to so much instrumental music. I’m listening to “Yes Virginia” right now for the first time and the lyrics are coming straight out of the battered notebook of a high school goth wannabe. They have great musicianship and a great branding thing with the costumes and whatever, but the minute [...]

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Making a living with your microblog

The story of dethroner is interesting. A proffesional blogger with lots of experience decides to create a little blog to earn just enough cash. Not to build out a multi-million-dollar-gawker-etc… but just enough to make a decent living. Three months in, here is how it is going… Dethroner Housekeeping: State of the Blog t + [...]

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Finding the rose among thorns version web 2.0

I’m a fan of Nick Carr and I’m interested in the abilities of creative individuals to make a living in the web 2.0 world. As we, the people of the year, are all producing content, how does everyone else find it. Certainly, search isn’t enough… Nick has a nice take. Rough Type: Nicholas Carrs Blog: [...]

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

tools and ideas for your blog

Add Links for Del.icio.us, Digg, and More to Blog Posts at ExplodingBoy I was looking for how to do this simply for WP, and here it was! Creating a Basic Print Stylesheet at ExplodingBoy I haven’t done this yet, I have to see the interaction with my blog pages, but I will when I get [...]

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check – Valleywag

SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check – Valleywag As someone who was very involved in the second wave of virtual worlds on the internet (it depends if you count Habitat or MUDs as the first wave or not), I’ve watched them periodically come up and die again with amusement. It was always obvious [...]