Love this GTD wallpaper I’ve currently set as the background on my laptop. Its a free download over at the Quality Nonsense blog.
January, 2009
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This Reuters story describing a Catholic group apologizing for some Holocaust denial remarks is a bit odd, The leader of a traditionalist Catholic movement apologized to Pope Benedict on Tuesday for remarks denying the Holocaust made by one of his members whom the pope recently rehabilitated. Bishop Bernard Fellay also said that he had disciplined…
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This is a good example of why never to use hosted sites like WordPress.com — that site has implemented a script that dynamically rewrites people’s blog content to fit the views of its owners, Automattic. Specifically, Matt Mullenweg Matt Mullenweg has been on this campaign to get people to spell WordPress as WordPress, which is…
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Last week, I claimed that the Dark Knight Interactive Bat was the worst Batman-related toy ever. I’m not quite sure if this qualifies as a toy, but it is much, much worse than the Interactive Bat. Via Nerd Approved, I present to you Batman nutcrackers,
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Nice roundup here and here on browser benchmarks suggesting that Firefox and Chrome are 3-4 times faster than the recently released Internet Explorer 8 RC 1. Opera fares better against Firefox/Chrome, but is still signficantly slower. Yeah, that open source model will never work. Of course, I doubt speed is the primary reason most of…
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Here’s Western Digital’s press release announcing the launch of their 2TB hard drive, “While some in the industry wondered if the end consumer would buy a 1 TB drive, already some 10 percent of 3.5-inch hard drive sales are at the 1 TB level or higher, serving demand from video applications and expanding consumer media…
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I am a big fan of encrypting my laptop’s hard drive, and typically use PGP Whole Disk Encryption product for that purpose. So yesterday I installed the 30-day trial, encrypted the drive, and ran it through its paces. As usual, WDE impresses me for its speed and unobtrusiveness. But paying for it — that’s a…
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I really like to back up data to optical media, and as the volume of data I back up continues to increase, I would love to back up to 25gb Blu-ray discs rather than 4.2gb DVD discs. But Blu-ray media is still far more expensive than DVD media and the obvious question is “why?” The…
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I’ve had the Fireshot screenshot extension installed in Firefox for a long time now, but I mostly used it just to take the occasional shot of some web page or another in my browser and never really investigated its feature set. Holy cow. Like a lot of screenshot utilities these days, Fireshot will take a…
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Maybe I’m just out here on the cutting edge and no one else in the universe would find this useful, but I’m always amazed that Amazon doesn’t have RSS/Atom feeds for wishlists. I could subscribe to all of my relatives/friends wish lists in Google Reader and give Amazon yet another opportunity to suck up my…