Archive for the ‘Made me laugh’ Category
Monday, April 21st, 2008
From Signal Versus Noise
Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At the end of your selected offline ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
From the biscuit, the command-line meme:
On my Mac:
MacBook-Pro:~ mjohnstn$ history | awk '{a[$2]++} END {for(i in a)print a[i] " " i}' | sort -rn | head -10
69 cd
55 ssh
42 ls
38 ping
37 say
31 top
23 ifconfig
23 curl
19 sftp
15 whois
I must say, Steve is a 'ls' freak.
Posted in Commentary, Made me laugh | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I spent a couple of hours last night playing Mario Kart Wii against a few friends - one in Mallusk and two in London. I've written it up here on Lategaming.
It's a good game. You should try it.
Posted in Cool, Games, Made me laugh, Review | 2 Comments »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
via 37Signals signal versus noise
“To curtail Japan’s overweight population, the Japanese health ministry recently mandated that all waistlines among its 56 million workers over age 40 be below ‘regulation size’ of 33.5 inches (for men). Any company failing to bring its employees’ weight under control — as well as the ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
A bit of satire for a Friday afternoon courtesy of McSweeney's Internet Tendency:
Skiing
Yachting
Snorkeling
Golf
Polo
Dinner parties
Shopping
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Beleaguered software vendor Microsoft is adding a couple of years to their spurned child, Windows XP::'Michael Dix, head of Windows client product management, tells the story, "One thing we've heard loud and clear, from both our customers and our partners, is the desire for Windows on this new class of ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
ENN's Ciara O'Brien writes:
"Nokia is challenging Apple in the digital music market with a new online music store aimed at Irish customers.
...
Tracks from the Nokia Music Store are compatible with any device that plays Windows Media Audio files (wma), which are embedded with Microsoft's digital rights management technology. However, iPods ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Just over two years ago, I wrote about Venture Capitalists and how their use these days was not the money but rather their contacts; it was their address book and not their cheque book that entrepreneurs should be interested in and, to this day, I agree. That's not to say ...
Posted in Commentary, Made me laugh, Startup | No Comments »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
- Dylan Thomas
I'm not talking about 'death' of course, but the notion that 'going dark' is desirable. I recall someone accusing me of being addicted to the Internet which, despite being true, is also utterly ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
"I see that you yourself are from Belgium. One can hardly imagine a more America-hating socialist European nation than that."
Posted in Annoyances, Made me laugh | 19 Comments »