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I was out in the warehouse this morning, installing new software on the UPS machine… and during this long, dull process, was looking at the computer itself, an old Gateway, the flat kind you put on your desk and sat a monitor on top… Whatever happened to computers you put on your desk? I've used … Read more
I guess it was only a matter of time before some company found a way to glean polling information from blogs. CNN has a story about how automated programs search millions of blogs to determine how people feel about the issues of the day — in this case, rising gas prices. But the most surprising … Read more
Whilst perusing the lists of bots indexing this blog, I noticed an unfamiliar name, GigaBlast. They search through blogs with a natural language interface, similar to what Jeeves claimed to do but never quite managed. My mission: Ask it something that would refer back to RP & RL! what is roleplaying and real life? Many … Read more
So what does having a 1650 x 1050 monitor get you these days? It's a Viewsonic 2025wm, and I've been droooling over it for awhile. I didn't buy it for gaming, really – I bought it for doing everything that isn't gaming. And it is very very nice for that. But for gaming… well, in … Read more
I know, I shouldn't have bought it. I can't really afford it. But I love my widescreen monitor. And I haven't even tried to play a game on it. Took me about half an hour to teach Linux about it, mostly because of a stupid typo I made in the xorg,conf… but since then… movies… … Read more