Archive for the ‘tech’ Category
Friday, December 28th, 2007
I love my mom, but she so totally needs one of these.
Even better if somebody could think up the equivalent for her computer -- three buttons: "Read Email", "Books at Amazon", and "Look up on WikiPedia".
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
OK, new server (same old URL), new plugins, perhaps a slightly new look sometime soon. And a new pattern of posts I'm going to try. I've posted little to the main blog this past year, but much more to the "tidbits" lists -- both the "commented news links" you see ...
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
This is the new home of the blog. I'm moving the ozrock.net stuff to this new server. When the dust has settled, everything should be as it has always been, with the blog at ron.ozrock.net/blog. Everything should be all stabilized with the new home by December 23rd or ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
Okay, other than tweaking, the new layout and setup is in place here. Probably the biggest change is the feed of commented news items along the right edge. I've been finding I'm less inclined to write real posts and more to make quick comments on things, and so I'm accommodating ...
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Saturday, July 7th, 2007
Things might look funky now and again as I screw around under the hood here a little. Pay no attention. New theme and other stuff being installed.
UPDATE: New theme is up. Bear with me as the bugs get ironed out. There's some strangeness if you're ...
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
I don't push tech stuff too often, but I'm pretty freakin' impressed [OK, less now; see below] with Jott, now in public beta. Call it on the phone, tell it who in your contacts you want to email, record the message, and it does a pretty shockingly good job ...
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Being a pretty serious procrastinator (hey, I once wrote a section of a chapter of a book called "The virtues of procrastination"), I've read a lot of crap over the years about procrastination and how to avoid it. (Item #1: Don't blog. Oops.) But the best ...
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Occasionally, I glance at the logs here; among other things, they tell me what search terms bring people to this site. So, in the tradition of "I remain the King of tight-assed porn", I point out that of the nearly 1.3 million results Google gives for the search "hot ...
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Cory Doctorow rocks in general, but I especially liked this talk on privacy he gave recently at Duke: From Myspace to Homeland Security: Privacy and the Totalitarian Urge. Worth a listen. Right about pretty much everything.
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
One of my favorite visual effects; mostly just as a test.
It's the Adelson checkerboard; same actual surface gray, but very different perceived lightness (until the squares get connected).
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