With some fanfare the iPad was announced today. And if I am reading it right, it’s like an iPhone but big and fat. I don’t get it. It’s an iPhone without the phone. It does not multitask. So while you are using it as a ebook reader, you can’t keep any instant messenger sessions in [...]
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Who says YouTube is not cool?
I’m not fully awake but saw this via Reddit. Very cool and excellent landing.
MSN Toolbar and Firefox
My current PC is a HP i7 workstation and I’ve tried to keep the software it came with in place. For example, it comes with a 15 month subscription to Norton Internet Security. Even though I have a valid license for Norton 360, I can now save that license for another PC. The HP PC [...]
Moving WordPress again
I have been running my blog on the URL wp.dembowski.net for years. If you are familiar with WordPress then that’s an OK URL to use but most people are more comfortable with a generic name. I did not want to use www.dembowski.net (already used for a place holder) and did not want to put move [...]
1:10 scale Saturn V liftoff
Sometime you do find fun things on Reddit. Yesterday was fun as the family did the Christmas day trip to my brother’s house. We had a great time but I’m coming down with a serious nose cold. I think I only got two hours of sleep last night. Good thing I’m off all next week, [...]
WordPress 2.9 is released!
I just got home from Christmas shopping and my SVN pull down of the trunk was 3.0-alpha. Which told me 2.9 is released and I should switch to the 2.9 branch. As always it’s just And that’s it. I’m now on the 2.9 branch. I’ve been using the 2.9 beta for a few weeks now [...]
New PC vs old
81 lb monster? Meet your 32 lb replacement. The old PC was a Core 2 Duo with two 150 GB hard drives and 8 GB of RAM. The video card is a Nvidia GTX-260 (forgot how much RAM that has). The new one’s specs can be found here. If the old worked reliably I would [...]
That’s all I can take!
After my complaining and moaning for months my Dell XPS 720 refuses to boot up this morning. Again. That’s the final straw and I ordered a new PC this morning. I was planning on building my own PC but the fact is I don’t have time to do that. Building a PC from parts is [...]
Beware the canary mismatch on efree monster
For traffic logs, I use Clicky Web Analytics and take a look from time to time. See that flat dark blue line? Around noon on December 3rd my blog stopped serving web pages and it was not until about 5 hours later that I noticed it. I don’t get a lot of traffic but I [...]
Now trying OpenDNS SmartCache
If you are an IT/Network professional with UNIX/Linux/BSD experience and you have a network at home, you really can’t resist playing around. It’s the best way to learn and causing outages at home will only irritate your family. I’ve been using Google Public DNS for a day or two and it’s fast and responsive. Even [...]
