Friday, May 16th, 2008
A stunning piece of advertorial from InfoWorld via Nortel's sponsored IDC survey.
a considerable number of what it calls "hyperconnected" users ... those using at least seven devices and nine applications ... accounted for 16 percent of the population in the study
Behind the hyperconnected were the "increasingly connected," who use four ...
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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.
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
I've got two 'subnotes' in the house here. An Asus eee PC and a MacBook Air. Yes, it's true that the MacBook cost five times the cost of the eee PC but the differences are startling.
AttributeMacBook Aireee PC
Screen res/size13" @ 1280x8007 inch @ 800x480
Screen border
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
PeeJ noted this link to The Nerd Handbook:
Really it's a couple of pages describing how to meaninfully interact with a nerd who is painted for the most part as being a borderline Autistic with directional (and somewhat immutable) focus.
...control issues mean your nerd is sensitive to drastic changes in his ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Okay. I want some of these.
The Hot-Cold Mug
In fact, there's a heap of things there which would be just fabulous. :)
I'm a kitchen geek as well. Sue me.
Yes, this is a link to remind me.
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