(Please don’t take offense to that title)
Over the last couple days, I’ve been chained to a desktop because I just so happen to lack a printer, and for some strange reason I was drawn to install Safari. That’s all fine and dandy except I have one problem: I like it.
Firefox has been my browser of [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Forgive me Mozilla, for I have sinned
Posted in Tech, tagged Apple, browser, Firefox, Internet, mozilla, Safari, Tech, web on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yay! Local on the 8s now shows on DirecTV
Posted in Tech, tagged DirecTV, forecast, IntelliStar, Local on the 8s, television, TV, weather, Weather Channel, WeatherStar on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some strange force motivated me to turn to channel 362 this morning.. the channel that has sucked since we got rid of our cable service (DirecTV, at least until now, didn’t have the capacity to handle all the different local forecasts). Then I saw something totally unexpected.. a local freaking forecast on freaking satellite TV.
What [...]
Another step toward confidence and esteem
Posted in Life, tagged confidence, Life, self-esteem on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A while back, I found an article on Pick The Brain called “Why No Response Doesn’t Mean Not Interested” that I fell in love with. I hate the site, I hate any site that purports to be for self-improvement and then whores itself out (it’s very distrusting).. but there was one thing of interest in [...]
Are TV stations really that desperate for revenue?
Posted in atylmo Daily* Rant, tagged ads, advertisement, rant, TBS, television on September 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I saw an interesting discussion today on how television broadcasters are trying new (and increasingly more ridiculous) ways to shove ads in your face. One of the most glaring cases that got me fuming out the ears was TBS.
I’ve never been a personal witness to this, but they’ve inserted little “pauses” at the end of [...]
Yo quiero aprender español
Posted in General, tagged language, spanish, study on September 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
¿Por qué? Porque yo puedo ^^.
*ahem* Anyway I’ve just had a stronger urge to learn Spanish lately..I think my school class is making my notions to learn it a bit more intense.
Anyone of my fellow aspiring polyglots should check out El País. It’s a Spanish-langauge newspaper. I found it a pretty good read (from what [...]
