Category Archives: Technology

A Nook Book

I just received a newsletter from Barnes & Noble trying to drum up pre-orders for their new eBook reader, the Nook. As you can guess by the graphic above, the first thing I noticed was the fucked up line spacing in their promo shot. The shot on the left was from the newsletter I received. [...]
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How Not to Price Your Upgrades

This year, both Microsoft and Apple plan on releasing new versions of their OS’. Both Windows 7, and Snow Leopards are essentially the same as the prior releases except the fix problems in the previous version, and do some optimization. So, since these are not revolutionary upgrades I would expect them to be offered at [...]
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Mobile Browsing

I just installed “WPTouch” on my site so that it looks nice on my ipod touch. However, it occurred to me that I may want to optimize the mobile browsing experience for users on other devices. My question is, how many people actually read my site on a mobile device other than an iPhone/iPod Touch? [...]
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wubi installer’s pyrun.exe says “no disk”

Ever since Ubuntu 9.04 came out I have been trying to figure out how to do an install inside Windows. For this task I typically just use wubi, which has always worked wondefully in the past. Unfortunately, this time it did not go so smoothly. Apparently, for 9.04 they decided to do a rewrite of [...]
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Reason 34,534 Why Being a Sys Admin Sucks

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