Archive for January, 2006

Tapeman says “Eat Me!!!”

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Got bored yesterday watching a rerun of Desperate Housewives and decided to take my own advice and make my own clothes. Here’s a shirt I’m buying (and building) at Spreadshirt, because I’d actually want to wear it.
And hey, if I can wear it, maybe you want to wear it too. So here you go (click [...]

Colibri – Quicksilver for Windows

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

If you’re lucky enough to be on a Mac, then you’ve probably had the pleasure of using Quicksilver, an application launcher, document searcher, and general computing-life enhancer.
Well, I just found Colibri, an application for Windows that does many of the same things. It makes launching an application as easy as typing the first few letters [...]

How Google Got Me Lost

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

A lesson in trusting computers: don’t trust them. As I learned the hard way yesterday, if you’re not willing to do a small amount of human thinking, you’re at the mercy of a machine, and the machine is not always as smart as you think.
Case in point: I had a meeting with my sister last [...]

Raising Cain

Friday, January 13th, 2006

America’s boys are in trouble. They are the most violent in the industrialized world.
Surprised? I didn’t think so. It shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone that American boys are in crisis. For years now we’ve seen the statistic; lower grades, lower graduation rates, higher crime rates – than girls.
So when I caught this [...]