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Archive for May, 2007

Conversation while cataloging our book collection

Posted by Jordan on May 27th, 2007

Where did you say those other Steele books were?
On that shelf there, with the other Anne Mccaffrey books.
Mccaffrey?  J. D. Masters wrote the Steele series!
 Didn’t the Anne Mccaffrey book have Steel in the title or something?
Nope, those two books both had “Pegasus” in their title.  They’re not even close — Anne Mccaffrey writes girly sci-fi [...]

Why the F matters

Posted by Jordan on May 21st, 2007

There’s a bunch of reasons why the capital F in “Free Software” matters (hint — it’s not about the $).  Here’s an example that came by way of Slashdot.  Apparently, Windows Media Center will now block you from 100% legal time-shifting.  It’s not enough that we had to go to the Supreme Court in the [...]

Observations

Posted by Jordan on May 16th, 2007

1) I really should be working.
2) XKCD is the best… geek… comic… ever.  This brings back such fond memories of my own relational digraph (actually, it was really more of a multigraph, but whatever) .

Thunderbird v. Mail.app

Posted by Jordan on May 15th, 2007

So here’s the knock-down bout between Thunderbird and Mail.app.  When I switched, I tried to give every native application a fair trial (though I knew there was no way Safari would be able to match the functionality of my ridiculously plugin laden Firefox setup) over what I was used to.  The mail client of choice [...]

Hello, I’m a Mac.

Posted by Jordan on May 8th, 2007

I mostly use my Mac for productivity. In fact, I bought it because I was hoping it would make me more productive. And indeed, that’s mostly proven the case (hang around for the rest of my explanation on that later). However, I also have all this creative potential inside me just waiting [...]