Posted in Stuff for Language Nerds on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post is certainly going to be lacking in it.
My largest difficulty in writing, and learning how to write, is gathering substance. To make something worthwhile to read, a piece needs at least one of three things:
An engaging narrative
Usefulness, or
Entertainment value
The trouble with the former is a lack of imagination. Even the most contrvied tale had a [...]
Posted in Life on July 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I made it last time, and I just made it again yesterday. But, that’s not enough is it? We have to turn up the heat if we’re gonna get over this fear don’t we?
Yes we do.
I went in a store. Me, the agoraphobic, afraid of people, afraid of heights, messed-up-in-the-head person, went inside a store. [...]
Posted in Tech on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happily to say, with hardly a hitch.
It’s all smooth, except for two things: Compiz is slower, and Firefox didn’t upgrade to 3.5 like I was hoping. Instead, I’ve switched to Swiftfox. It’s Firefox, but platform-optimized. I didn’t plan on doing this, but it was easier to install than hunting down a Firefox .deb. Plus, a [...]
Posted in Tech on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a long time coming, but I’m finally gonna do it.
Truth be told the original install (after a hard drive wipe of 7.10) was 8.04 LTS, so I didn’t have to upgrade the first time, but I enabled the regular upstream upgrades, and here we are. I just like new stuff too much :/
And [...]
Posted in Stuff for Language Nerds on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know that phrase is commonly used as incorrect English? I have always used this to refer to meaning something like “It makes me want to ask the question”. I used it just the other day.
According to the dutifully-titled site Beg the Question, that’s not even close to what it means. News to me.
It’s [...]
Posted in Tech on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not a C++. The C++. Ok, maybe that joke is getting a bit old now.
You can probably tell by now my interests fluctuate. A few days ago it was drawing and art. Today, it’s back to programming.
And as I’ve been trying to get back into programming, I started just randomly doing things in C++. I’m [...]
Posted in Stuff for Language Nerds on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You know that feeling you get when you say a word over and over again and it starts to sound like it’s not a word anymore? Or you stare at it and you suddenly think “What? That doesn’t look like a word..”?
This is jamais vu.
I always thought I was a bit crazy when I had [...]
Posted in Humor on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why yes I keep my promises. I said I’d bring it back (kind of). Say hello again to my long-forgotten series “Bad Banner Ads”, except this time, without the whole “banner” limitation.
I saw this on rotation on Yahoo! Answers (and somewhere else I can’t remember). I noticed it right before changing pages and had to keep refreshing [...]
Posted in Freakin' Cool App of the Week, Tech, Tips on July 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Looking for the HOWTO? Feel free to go right to it.
If you use Vista’s sidebar gadgets, you already know the essence of Screenlets. If you use OSX’s widgets or Yahoo! widgets, you already know the essence of Screenlets. Can you guess what it is yet?
Screenlets is a framework for such gadgets and gizmos on, you [...]
