Some things just beg for a blog post. Like the stupidity of telling malware and virus writers exactly how to load their programs in safe mode. Thanks, McAfee. That was brilliant. Safe mode is typically the last resort for removing stubborn viruses, and I’ve only ever seen one that did this. Expect to see a […]
Many of you probably already know that I use Linux. One of the awesome things about linux is choice. It was also the mantra of the first Linux distribution that hooked me on Linux–Gentoo. One of the choices that I made early on, was to use GNOME for my ‘Desktop Environment’. Of course, this begs […]
Dear FedEx, The lovely country selector you’ve implemented is broken. See, not everyone has the Arial font (yes, I use Linux, and Arial is a proprietary Windows font, so I’m out of luck there). This causes my browser to choose a different font that happens to be slightly larger than Arial. What happens next, is […]
Earlier, I was reading how Facebook almost bought out Twitter. I know I’ve seen some people adamantly proclaim ‘Facebook is not Twitter’. Sure, but have you looked at the two side by side? Facebook is organized tweets. That said, I’m still not quite sure how it makes sense for Facebook to acquire Twitter, except that […]
As some of you probably already know from Facebook, we have a new addition to the family. It’s a girl! She is a 3-month old Labrador/Border Collie that we adopted from the Eastern Montana Humane Society. At three months, she’s obviously not as well-behaved as Scooter was when we got him last year, but she’s […]
