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Languages in Stargate SG-1
A friend of mine hooked me up with the first 8 seasons of Stargate SG-1. I started watching Season 1 a few days ago. I’m enjoying it quite well thus far, except for one thing: the languages (or lack thereof). … Continue reading
LibraryThing, one of my favorite websites
In mid-July, I discovered LibraryThing. It was love at first site (sorry, terrible pun). LibraryThing is basically a book-geek’s dream come true. It lets you do what you’ve (I’ve) always wanted to do with my books. Easily add all of … Continue reading
Watch out! Falling pixels!
I bought the CSS editing upgrade from WordPress.com earlier. I’ve been tinkering around with the CSS for about 45 minutes now. I’m using Sandbox as my base theme. Thus far, I’m really impressed with the entire procedure. I was editing … Continue reading
Did Google forget about Gmail?
I don’t mean it in the sense of, “did they forget about developing it?”, because they’ve been adding new things to it off and on for quite a while now. (I particularly love the rich text editor they added!) What … Continue reading
And now, a problem with Vonage.
Anyone who’s read my blog lately knows about the interesting problems I had with SkypeIn. My first problem was simply user error: when trying to test my SkypeIn number, I was dialing the wrong number. D’oh. However, it then turned … Continue reading
More SkypeIn oddities
As noted previously, I bought a SkypeIn number a few weeks back. After I finally realized that I was dialing the wrong number, the number worked just fine. Mostly, anyway. I bought the SkypeIn number so that it had the … Continue reading
A pleasant surprise from FolderShare
When I first started using FolderShare a few days ago, I figured it was only useful for sharing data files (mp3s, text, etc.). I guess I was wrong. Tonight I installed FeedReader on our downstairs computer. I wanted to be … Continue reading
The Size of Our World
Or, God Damn, do I feel small! Apparently, the earth, in comparison to other things in the solar system is.. well, really freaking tiny. MeFi, how I love thee.
Writing on water
It seems that it is now possible to write on water. From the Sci Fi Tech blog: Researchers at Akishima Laboratories have developed a way to spell out words and draw pictures on the surface of a pool by using … Continue reading
Syncing text files (and more)
So, I dig text files. About a week ago, I started using todotxt. It’s a pretty nifty little shell script that lets you quickly add todo items to a text file. Anyway, that’s not really what this post is about, … Continue reading