As some of you might know, I run a rather old-ish system. It’s a 3GHz P4 with 1GB of RAM and on-board Intel graphics. It ain’t no Ferrari, but it gets me around.
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been running Compiz on Hardy mostly because I wanted to use the Key-Status utility for my […]

I know the prevailing trend is to get organized and de-clutter. But sometimes being a bit of a pack-rat can pay off in enjoyment later on. Case in point, a copy of the 1978 Carguide magazine circulating through our office. This was a Canadian Auto buyers guide that listed specs and photos of all the […]

A little less than three months ago, I posted about how I won the coveted Finger of God prize from the boys over at Lugradio.
It finally arrived.
Now I’m not big on unboxing videos. By and large I think they’re silly, and pointless. But of course, having very little shame, and the fact that I’d […]

A faithful user of the todo.txt system of command line based todo list management for about a year now, I have recently fallen in love with a new command line based todo list application called simply Task, which was written by Paul Beckingham. He’s got a great screencast demo of it on YouTube which is […]

Shortly before I went to Las Vegas, I decided I’d like to buy the Flip Video Ultra camcorder while I was down there. If you don’t know what it is, here’s a short description:
It’s a handheld, solid state, 2GB capacity video capture device. It captures 640×480 video at 30fps. There is a 1.8″ LCD screen […]

I was checking out the first couple of episodes of Merlin Mann’s most recent podcast adventure You Look Nice Today. I’ve always found Merlin to be smart, quickwitted, and yet firmly planted - whatever that means. In any case, his sense of humour always seems to appeal to me. And along with his two cohorts, […]

In a comment to my previous post about Facebook, JakeT also ponders the signficance of Twitter and why I use it. Although Twitter is different things to different people, I’ll just describe the things I like about it and what it does for me.
I follow about 80 people and about 70 or 80 people follow […]

Since I’ve said it several times before, there might not be any point in saying it again, but what the heck. I think Facebook is useless, annoying and a blight on the internet. Tom Raftery has posted a YouTube video that illustrates all that AND makes you laugh. Thanks Tom.

I’m still playing around with how I use Twitter. Some key points:
I use the Gtalk interface within Gmail to monitor Twitter. It’s more of a flow of information rather than the periodic polling that most Twitter clients do. With the Twitter problems this past weekend, my Gtalk gateway never seemed to stop working - at […]

The other day I received an email at work from a co-worker and friend. He had received it from a friend along with 30 or so other people in the “To:” address field and several other bunches of recipients along the way. He felt it was serious enough to forward to me - I clearly […]