Crap, crap, CRAP! The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie is bad. Really bad. You just won’t believe how vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly bad it is. I mean, you might think that The Phantom Menace was a hopelessly misguided attempt to reinvent a much-loved franchise by people who, though well-intentioned, completely failed to understand what made […]
If you visit this page via a browser, you’ll see a new design today. It’s not huge, just some color tweaks in the CSS and a banner image instead of the default MT stuff. Tweaking may continue, or I could just forget about it for another few months. I’m not designer, so bumping content around […]
If you’ve ever had to generate a color scheme (say for a website) but didn’t go it professionally, the availability of color wheel resources on the web is pretty depressing. Lots of people want to teach you about color, which isn’t bad, but few enable you to do real color design, such as generating a […]
I think the DNS attack that’s hitting the East coast is spreading to AA. My connection has been flaky all night. When can we get some vigilante justice for the fools that are poisoning the DNS servers? Idiot spammers. Side note: I know that “flaky” spell-checks properly, but shouldn’t it really be “flakey”? I may […]
Awesome article about buying a budget (read: under $400) LCD, with gaming in mind. The NEC LCD1770NX came out on top. Budget LCD Roundup
I have a news reader (duh) and with that comes about 500 feeds. I’ve never counted them, but that seems like a reasonable number. One of them happens to be Robert Scoble, who works for Microsoft. His title is something like Evangelist or something like that (I’m too lazy to look it up), but he’s […]
This hand slap to the head once again brought to you by Technical Writers. Someone with the title Technical Author (cue eye roll) posted a one sentence question to a Help-authoring tool list. To quote: “Can anyone tell me what ‘structured authoring’ is?”. This was met by links to a Google-searched PDF. The person read […]
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If I ever meet the author of AAiOR, I so need to buy him/her a beer/wine/stiff drink, mainly for making me laugh my ass off at the absurdity of this town. The term “overrated” barely scratches the surface of this pompous, over-marketed, elitist town. Too bad they have one of the best employers around (despite […]
It’s like you could replace the University in this story with “University of Michigan” and no one would bat an eye. It hasn’t happened at U-M, I’m just sayin’… Last year, it was the fashion among campus conservative groups to hold anti-affirmative action bake sales: In such sales, prices are calibrated by the buyer’s race, […]