Tag Archives: Geek

Hooray for free music!

Posted on 2006-10-14 by frank

Today I’ve done little but snarf MP3’s from 3hive, a free-music-finding collective that can usually be counted upon to suggest some good music. I don’t like everything they suggest but today I spent a couple hours searching through their September … Continue reading →

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Business 2.0 says avoid the Vista

Posted on 2006-09-08 by frank

A Reality Check for Vista. Go Owen! I think this may be the first time a friend’s article received front page treatment at slashdot

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Debugging cascading style sheets

Posted on 2006-08-24 by frank

While trying to figure out the style sheet’s on Andrea’s blog last weekend, I poked around Safari’s debug menu, thinking, they interpret these things hierarchically for rendering, so how hard could it be to build an inspector for it that … Continue reading →

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Dreamhosting gets better

Posted on 2006-08-19 by frank

After several go-rounds via email with a couple of support folks at Dreamhost, they’ve said the problems I was experiencing with all my files residing on happy.dreamhost.com were related to happy’s NFS mounts — apparently something was wrong with its … Continue reading →

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Cool TV gadget

Posted on 2006-08-17 by frank

Elgato has been making TV tuner boxes and software for the mac for a while now, Scott has an older one and likes it, and earlier this year I was thinking about getting some HDTV in the house on the … Continue reading →

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