Coding Horror: Thirteen Blog Clichés I know I’m guilty of many of these clichés on this blog, and even this post is an admission of that guilt, but I think these should be adopted as the Miss Manners of blogs. I can’t name how many blogs I’ve stopped reading because they devolved into either a [...]

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Slashdot | The CD Turns 25 Today Congratulations to the CD! I can remember going to Fretter and Highland appliance looking at the various Discman portables, and finally getting a Sony D3 and three albums. One was a classical music album of organ music, and the other two were  popular albums of the day. Good [...]

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Its time to announce the winner of the Boomerang Supernova Caption Contest. And the winner is: Steve: Girl: I’m not going to look! Boy: I’m not going to look! Play BLIND MISSLE COMMAND CHICKEN – the new must-have 2 player game! Your prize will be arriving shortly.  

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Happy Birthday, Holly! Hope you have a very happy birthday!

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Windows Is Free (A TLUG Article) This is an interesting take on the whole Linux vs. proprietary software argument. Perhaps the reason that Linux isn’t taken more seriously is because people think that Windows is free. Hell, its definitely ubiquitous, but if everyone had to pay the extra $200 or so to ensure it was [...]

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Like a boomerang thrown in the night in drunken fury, here’s the second Caption Contest, right upside your head. The rules are the same as the last contest (remember that? Ahh, fond memories. It was almost like it was last post ago when that finished). This one will run until Friday morning (8/17) so get [...]

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The Return of the son of the cousin of the Caption Contest is over, and the winner is: Ruth: If you watch this commercial, you will die in 7 days. She captured the creepy feeling that I had when first seeing this picture. I can almost see them saying “BRAINS!” Congratulations, Ruth! You’ll be receiving [...]

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I’m doing a review of a GTK+ book for Slashdot. When trying one of the examples from the book, I realized that I didn’t have the libgtk2.0-dev libraries. Curious, I thought I had installed / used those in the past. GTK+ is pretty core to doing any GNOME development. In any event, I typed in [...]

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Slashdot | Investors Bailing On SCO Stock, SCOX Plummets I’m thinking the death clock for SCO has finally clicked  into the 11th hour. Its about time. We’ve had three years of waiting for this moment. Hurray!

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Fear not the keyboard | The Macalope: An Apple blog – CNET Blogs I got a chance to play with the new keyboard on the iMac this weekend, and while I think the layout isn’t all that great (I’m not sure they needed to screw with it like that), the feel was pretty good. If [...]

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