I “liberated” this from Michael Calderone’s blog; he had a bunch of assorted bullshit spouted by Bill Keller, executive editor of the NYT. Most of it wouldn’t have warranted reading if I wasn’t comfortably ensconced in my Immobile Command Unit (I’m sick and spending as much of the day in bed as possible), but this […]

The first time I heard The Ark’s The Worrying Kind, I thought first of all that it was cute and catchy as hell, and second, that it sounded like something I’d heard before. I was getting “70s something”, but it just wouldn’t come to me. It drove me crazy for a couple of days, and […]

It’s water change day once again, I have a shit-ton of work and zero desire to do it, but music helps because I don’t notice the work so much. I wasn’t in the mood for either of (miscellaneous stuff on my iPod) or Pandora. I had Radio Viva on computer for a while this morning, […]

FF did an update a couple of days or so after I last ran the browser benchmark test. I didn’t think anything of it because all I ever do when Update Manager presents me with a list of stuff it wants to update is check to see whether there’s a kernel update involved (that will […]

I can’t decide whether this is so bad that it’s good, or whether it’s just so goddamned funny that it’s good. This is Los Colorados; a Ukranian folk band (with, inexplicably, a Spanish name, and counting in German), doing a cover of Katy Perry’s Hot and Cold. I don’t actively like or dislike the original […]

Even though I harbour an intense hatred for the word “lite”, I decided to give Mocha (VNC client for the iPhone) a shot. There’s a full version that additionally allows right clicking and (I think) Ctrl-Alt-Del, but I don’t much care about right-click for all I’ll use it, and the three-fingered Windows salute doesn’t do […]

I was poking about Cydia this morning and came upon Veency; a VNC server for the iPhone. I use VNC between my desktop and laptop sometimes, if I want to use the desktop, but can’t (for some reason) sit at my desk, so I thought I’d check it out for the phone, just to see […]

I know…pathetic. I couldn’t help it, though. I think I’ll do my own so I can adjust the position I the text, but for now…heh. 🙂

P. sent me a bunch of photos he’d taken for a client in Chile. The camera they have at the office isn’t exactly a Canon Mark III, and they were all taken inside, in the shop that has the lights up on a zillion-foot high ceiling; the shop that is set up for human beings […]

L. sent me a link this morning to a screencap of some browser benchmarks that he’d done, then to the site where he’d done them. Of course, I was curious (he knew that would happen), so I ran tests on all of the browsers I have installed on my ageing desktop. By far the fastest […]