Category Archives: Technology

My Dinner With Roku

Posted on Monday, July 6, 2009 by Keith

For about a month now, Elvira and I have been using the Roku to watch movies and TV shows from our Netflix account. In that time, we’ve only had two minor incidents where the quality dropped, and even then, it … Continue reading →

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Amazon Meets the FAIL Whale

Posted on Monday, April 13, 2009 by Keith

So, this whole Amazonfail thing is pretty wacky. For those of you not emersed in the Internet, the short version goes like this: A bunch of LGBT/feminist and sex ed books listed on Amazon were reclasified as “adult” and omitted … Continue reading →

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Call Me SparticusLover626

Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 by Keith

I’ve been using Twitter and Facebook for a few months now and my general assessment is that these tools are useful for now. That’s about as good as it gets when evaluating technology, especially web apps that are doomed to … Continue reading →

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One More Reason To Cancel My Cable Subscription

Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 by Keith

The Sci-Fi channel is changing it’s name to the SyFy channel as a way to get away from all that weirdo geeky science fiction stuff. They aren’t changing the content any, which is ironic, since they’ve drifted away from the … Continue reading →

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A Message From Our Sponsor

Posted on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 by Keith

Over at Locus, Cory  Doctorow has a column in which he praises the expertise of the professional sales force: Hardly a day goes by that I don’t get an e-mail from someone who’s ready to reinvent publishing using the Internet, … Continue reading →

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Author’s Guild vs. The Kindle 2 in a Race to See Who is Least Relavant

Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 by Keith

So, the Author’s Guild* has decided that the new Kindle’s text-to-speech thingy is a threat to author’s rights, audio book sales and maybe even the book industry’s very existence. Where they were when Paris Hilton’s biography came out, I don’t … Continue reading →

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Fiddling With Code While the Matrix Burns

Posted on Monday, February 9, 2009 by Keith

You may have heard that the Singularity is coming. Or maybe not. Either way, you should know that several people, some of them even smart, are all about the idea that humanity is on the verge of some unfathomable technological … Continue reading →

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No 140 Character Limit for Our POTUS

Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 by Keith

So, 3 days into his administration, Obama has made government as transparent as a window, reaffirmed Habeus Corpus, shut down GTMO and overturned the gag rule on reproductive rights. All very nice. But the really impressive news is that Obama … Continue reading →

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Fuck the Jetpacks, I want my Alternative Internet Media Stream

Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2009 by Keith

Pulling a page from the Fox playbook, ABC has not only canceled Pushing Daisies but may not even air the last three episodes. I could go on at length about greedy douchebag executives, or idiot suits more concerned about add … Continue reading →

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Writing Software

Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2008 by Keith

I’ve been having problems finding a good, reliable open source word processing program. MS Office is a bloated piece of crap, so naturally it’s the industry standard, even if you have to rejigger the preferences as it was not intended … Continue reading →

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