1st
April
2008
I’m lost in the details, again. When “Sassafras” the cuddly Kaypro came into my “life” two decades ago, the whole be accurate or suffer lifestyle was new to me. I wasn’t a programmer; my methods could lead to madness for anyone that wanted meticulous attention to detail as a rule of thumb. But, I had no choice because to a computer, a misplaced comma IS important.
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31st
March
2008
How many times have you taken something useful and made it “more useful”? That’s not really the question I want to ask. Rather, how many times have you set out with good intentions, made something useful work less well along the slippery road to success? That’s what separates those of us with inquisitive minds and less than perfect skills from the genii of the world.
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25th
March
2008
Sometimes I should have my hands encased in big fluffy mittens that would keep me from doing stupid things. I’m sure they’re available wherever fine hand covers are sold, and I firmly resolve to go shopping for a pair at the next available occasion. Tonight, I will try to undo what every good computer user does eventually. You see, I too scrap software systems.
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27th
November
2007
Part of the shopping process is the search for information. What fun is there when the total time from see to pay can be measured in milliseconds? Instead, I like to stretch out the process, asking questions, reading, testing. Adding the XO laptop to our household is still not a “done deed”, but I’m better informed now than I was a few hours ago.
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21st
August
2007
From a missed delivery, due to son #3 going for a haircut (and looking years younger as a result), to a drive across town to see my friends at Purolator while listening to the opening music from Romeo and Juliet (still moves my spirit, forty years after the release), all signs pointed to a retrograde motion theme for today. The latest laptop in our home computing centre has arrived, and the choice has been made. We’re remaining as a Vista-free zone. The new machine, nicknamed Canary due to its saffron skin, will lose the factory load and be assimilated.
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9th
July
2007
Starting vacation at an earlier date this year means that it hasn’t been exactly a twelve month turnaround since the last time. I can deal with it, but it feels a bit rushed. So, imagine how I felt when I was checking around the VMWare site this evening and found that there was a new version of my favourite Linux distro available, and I hadn’t even read the anticipation moaning on the forums.
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10th
April
2007
Either I learn to speak the dog’s language, or I start talking to myself in earnest. One more brick in the wall that separates the me from the wii in the family was placed today; the head gamer tracked down the elusive console at a small shop near here. We now officially have as many game consoles as we do television sets.
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30th
March
2007
I’ve never been a proponent of Pop Psychology. In fact, when I first learned there was a magazine by that name, back when I was a “serious student” in the psycho faculty, there was a degree of “How dare they”? With time, my nature has mellowed, and now I can get a kick out of the various tests now available to any of us with a ‘net connection and fifteen minutes to waste.
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13th
December
2006
Back when summer was at hand, I mentioned that I’d downloaded a new distribution of Linux, and gave my impressions based on a couple of hours with an older computer as the platform. Today, with a bit of free time on my hands, I decided to revisit the Ubuntu community.
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19th
October
2006
It’s easy to see why the magazine subscription model is so successful. Every issue, direct to you mailbox, at a reduction in cost. Simple. Easy as 1-2.3.
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