Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in software on Feb 22nd, 2006
The system tray in Windows takes up valuable space on the screen, especially when the icons in the tray provide no benefit to the user. The icon for Marimba Tuner is one of the useless ones.
Posted in legal rights, privacy, technology on Feb 21st, 2006
Verizon Wireless refuses to reactivate Motorola StarTAC handsets on account that they aren’t GPS-enabled, yet there isn’t any law prohibiting them from doing so.
Posted in culture on Feb 20th, 2006
Ever had a conversation that turned technical, too much so for one of the participants? Ever had that person call you names, interrupt, or try to get the topic changed? They need to get a clue.
Posted in youth on Feb 14th, 2006
It’s 10:30 at night and I’m having a senior moment, deciding whether or not to go to bed now.
Posted in software on Feb 1st, 2006
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET takes forever to install. It copies a gazillion files to disk and and makes a utterly huge amount of registry additions. Needless to say the install discs could benefit from some re-vamping.
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