Windows file systems note: “Barcelona – Please don’t Go” is not the same thing as “Barcelona – Please Don’t Go”. When I make a typo in a file name, then copy it to a storage partition that has to be Windows-accessible (i.e. accessible by an OS too useless to recognise anything but its own company’s […]

Since the 3.0 update, SMS themes (all but one, I think) don’t work anymore. I had always alternated between two of them; Hello Kitty when I was in a pink mood, and Bird SMS when I was in a more red-and-blue kind of mood. If anyone’s going to update themes to work with 3.0, they’ve […]

CNN…where journalism goes to die. Seriously, Mairi, “than/then”? Have you ever taken an English class above third grade level? I guess I could understand (though not forgive) it if…you know…if writing wasn’t your job. When they give you a byline, there’s almost an expectation that you at least mostly know what the fuck you’re doing…

You have got to be kidding me. “…but I am yet to try it…” Oh, are you? I’m so very pleased to make your acquaintance, Yet To Try It. A most interesting name…you’re not from this area, are you? I’ve heard a lot of eggcorns and malapropisms (hell, we had the ruling Monarch of Malapropisms […]

I don’t get it. First, I have Screenlets running under Python because they look cool and I can see the displays from across the room. Then, when top tells me that Python is hogging CPU to the tune of thirty-plus percent when I have nothing else running except for Gnome itself (I even shut down […]

All updated and landscape-y, freed from its prison, and now without ugly icons for Contacts and Notes. I still can’t get passwordless SSH to work and I don’t know why because it appears that the keys get generated and saved, but I can live with that because it won’t kill me to type a password. […]