Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Out with the Shuffle, in with the Clip+
My rather short-lived 2nd gen iPod Shuffle won’t sync anymore. It won’t even attach over USB. It attaches, detaches, attaches, detaches, etc, forever. It’s not the cable since I can unplug mine and plug in Cat’s just fine. It’s started doing this recently and I was able to recover it previously after futzing with a [...]
Green screen mind blower
This is a true mind blower. Check out this reel of green screen usage from primetime shows. Even seemingly simple shots are complex compositions.
(from how it happened from Kottke)
What a single hour on the treadmill taught me
I need a nook. I need one. This is not merely whim or technolust, this is dire need.
Or technolust.
Seriously, how does one survive extended stays on dreadmills without an ebook reader? I did an hour. That’s chump change. Were it not for the Y being closed due to the Snowpocalypse this weekend I was considering [...]
Twitter: I caved
Alright, I caved. I’m twittering now, too. Though often maligned I actually do somewhat get the point of it. While some seemingly treat it as a diary of location and bodily function, I see it as an outlet for quick thoughts that don’t fit well in my ordinary Asides and that don’t merit a full-blown [...]
Ghost in the machine
For the most part computers are predictable machines. They do more or less what we ask of them. Sometimes they may do things we’d prefer they didn’t but it’s usually for predictable reasons.
My work laptop, on the other hand, is haunted. I know that seems unlikely but it is. See, it plays a sound sometimes. [...]
Blingo wins and fails in the same breath
I recently talked about how I had won cash money with Blingo. One of my buddies took me up on the offer to become a Blingo friend at that point and he wrote me today telling me how he had won a movie ticket meaning that I also won one. Yeehaw, win-win!
Then I went to [...]
Blingo – won again
I mentioned previously that I won with Blingo and since then I’ve won twice more. Last night’s was a doosy: $50 cash money! If you’re not using Blingo for your searches you’re basically throwing money away. I’m here to tell you these prizes actually get awarded and there’s no catch. It’s not a scam.
How do [...]
Gizmodo – hopped up juveniles
Gizmodo loves shiny gadgets. Gizmodo went to the Consumer Electronics Show as one would expect. What one wouldn’t necessarily expect is that Gizmodo is staffed by sugar-rushed 12-year-old mouth breathing imbeciles. In a heart-felt, placating tone they admit and ever-so-sincerely apologize for the fact that they ran around the show like halfwits and used a [...]
