I have a bit of an infatuation with the Commodore 64, a 1980s icon and still the best-selling computer ever made according to the Guinness Book of Records. I think it’s just about the perfect home computer: it’s capable of high-resolution graphics, it has a nice keyboard, it’s compact, it has enough memory for most [...]
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
Hey you, fellow American. Pissed off about airline security? TAKE THE TRAIN. Okay, it might take a little longer. But you can bring a bunch of luggage – no fees! You can’t smoke in the bathrooms but they’ll stop and let you off to smoke and then let you back on. I think because the [...]
Friday, November 12, 2010
I love my little pink iPod Nano, it is easy to carry with me to work and that way I can listen to music and play with the browser on my phone without the music program on my phone crashing on me. But I really don’t get iTunes. I am not really an Apple gal. [...]
Just a quick post to say sorry to all the people who’ve reported trouble with the telnet comments system. I did a server reconfiguration a while back that broke inetd in a way that wasn’t immediately obvious to me. The telnet comments are working once again…just connect to 4d2.org on port 23. I’m really surprised [...]
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Kara’s laptop computer has been on its last legs for a long time now. Of course, I’m not actually sure that it ever had any first legs. I helped her pick it out, and I think there have been maybe three days since then that the laptop has actually functioned as intended. Kara has apparently [...]
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Last night, as Michael and I are strolling through a mostly-closed mall towards our car, I note the long line of people (nerds, young professionals) waiting outside an Apple store. I ask Michael why people are lined up, “are they giving out free blow jobs at the Apple store?” Nope, he tells me. They’re lined [...]
Michael and I received our Wii Fit on Thursday, but didn’t get to do much other than register ourselves and do a few of the exercises. Wii Fit comes with a balance board you set on the floor. The board calibrates itself to your weight and based on the weight on the sensors, can tell [...]
(How to obtain the MSL, password and phone unlock code for a Treo 700p without paying a cent or using any hardware other than the phone itself.) I have a Treo 700p smartphone, which I’ve had for a couple of years and really enjoy. The 700p has been replaced by newer models but is still [...]
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Where I live (suburban Maryland), Verizon and Comcast are a well-established oligopoly that people desiring phone/internet/TV service are pretty much forced to deal with. I use Comcast for all three services, and whenever I sit on hold with them for half an hour or speak to a surly in-home technician, I find myself smiling and [...]
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
WoDM signed us up for a free two-week trial of gamefly. The first game we received was Trauma Center 2 for the wii, I haven’t played this game yet. Yesterday, we got My Word Coach. We sat down to play, because it beats watching tv. I have a lot of issues with this game. They [...]