Archive for the 'Computers/Tech' Category
The Joys of Singledom
(8:03:20 PM) Bill: nice, i just went through and labelled all my torrents according to the site theyre from
(8:04:01 PM) Bill: wow i lead a very dull existence
(8:04:06 PM) Nick: Haha
New Computer
A couple days ago, Amanda and I decided, on a whim, to go to a nearby town to go thrift shopping and I actually came back with a pretty sweet vintage computer score.
In this seedy pawn shop that deals mostly with guns and reloading equipment (a store I wasn’t going to check out til Amanda [...]
“Please God, Someone Compete With Photoshop”
Discovered this little article on Digg, which was sandwiched between a zillion other, more interesting articles, but I felt inclined to comment, since I shoot a lot of photos, work with a lot of graphics, and Photoshop is like a son to me. That I stole from his biological parents.
This guy renounces Adobe not particularly [...]
New Monitor
My first silly purchase in quite a while, I picked up a Syncmaster 226BW LCD monitor shortly after returning home from the worst vacation in history. I’ve been using a 17″ (16″ viewable) Mitsubishi Diamondtron CRT for several years, which really wasn’t a bad monitor, but was beginning to show its age. The new LCD, [...]
Read More..>>We’re So Spoiled
It’s funny to think that I used to collect MP3s, software and ROMs on a 56k modem. I’m the most impatient person on the planet; it’s very hard to believe that those collections started that way. Because of my obsessive-compulsive downloading habits, I was a relatively early adopter of cable internet, and it’s weird how [...]
Read More..>>How Much Does the Internet Weigh?
Found this on The Guardian, thought it was interesting.
Just how much does the internet actually weigh?
Charles Arthur
Thursday June 7, 2007
Guardian
About two ounces (60 grams), or perhaps 0.2 millionths of an ounce (6 micrograms), depending which method you use to calculate the weight of the active electrons necessary to sustain the global network.
But whichever number you [...]
Nothing, Really
I came home this afternoon to an eerie silence. This always sends me into a panic because that means my computer is not running for one reason or another. Well, it must have just been a power outage because I fired it up, and it worked fine (aside from a fan speed message, which [...]
Read More..>>Spam is Fun
For the first year this blog was around, I didn’t have to do any filtering because it wasn’t really indexed anywhere and I wasn’t pinging any blog services or anything. It’s still obscure, but that doesn’t deter spambots. No input field or submit button on the web is safe, and anybody that has a website [...]
Read More..>>Strange Mixup
Got home today to find a package from DHL and, assuming it to be my fisheye lens, I tore it open without looking at it. You can’t imagine the disappointment I felt when I discovered it to be a motherboard for a Dell server. “WTF?” I almost certainly exclaimed out loud, before turning the package [...]
Read More..>>My Joost Experience So Far
Well after a day and a half of not being able to connect to the Joost network for absolutely no reason, the software finally decided to just work, and I’ve had no issues since.
Joost is a peer to peer streaming television service — kind of a mix between OnDemand services through your cable company and [...]
