From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Living Out Of A Suitcase (Sort Of) & Loving It

by on May 31, 2008

in The Move Home

There’s nothing like a move to help you realize just how much stuff, and unnecessary stuff at that, you accumulate over time. As our household goods now head by sea to California, it’s life kind of out of a suitcase for the next six weeks. And that minimalist life is pretty refreshing. I often tell [...]

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I Bought An Asus Eee PC!

by on May 31, 2008

in Computers

I’m leaving Windows further and further behind. First I went to the Macbook Pro. Then I moved my wife to a Macbook in March. Then when that crashed this week, I went Linux — in the small form of an Asus Eee PC. It’s an amazing computer. Windows what? Who needs that? A bad inverter [...]

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Enough With The Disposable Technology

by on May 31, 2008

in Computers

Over the years, I’ve had a number of conversations with friends concerned about how disposable (and wasteful) technology has become. Case in point — the new printer I bought for less than the price of ink cartridges. Until last week, I had three printers — a fairly modern HP all-in-one unit, a Brother laser printer [...]

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Reading The Wall Street Journal For Free Despite Its Google News Cloaking

by on May 15, 2008

in Blogs & Feeds,Newspapers,Rants

In Read The Wall Street Journal For Free, I explained how to get Wall Street Journal content for free via Google News. But in the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a problem. You can’t find some of the articles that the Wall Street Journal publishes using Google News, not if you look for them using [...]

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The German & Iraqi Villages Of England’s Salisbury Plain

by on May 14, 2008

in Salisbury Plain

I’ve written before about how the British army trains on the fields around our house, flying big C-130s overhead and operates two fake villages (one “German” and one “Iraqi”) for further training. Well, the troops have been busy. Flights keep going over head during the day and night, very low and very exciting. Last night, [...]

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In Which I Finally Experience A Car Boot Sale

by on May 12, 2008

in Britain,The Move Home

The moving plans continue. Later this week, a company comes to take away half our stuff. Later this month, the other half goes. So there’s a lot of cleaning and deciding of what really needs to go. And in Britain when you do a clear out, you don’t have a garage sale. Instead, you go to [...]

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Live Twittering A Conference? Try Live Twitting!

by on May 9, 2008

in Twitter

I recently had a go at live twittering a conference and what a pain! First, I was flooding my followers with constant updates. Second, trying to recreate what I live twittered into a blog post was a nightmare, with me literally having to cut-and-paste newer twits above the older ones to reconstruct the proper chronology. [...]

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Twitter Spam: Myth Or Reality?

by on May 7, 2008

in Twitter

I was intrigued to read on TechCrunch that Twitter has started blacklisting spammers. Really, Twitter spam? I mean, how do you get spammed by people you voluntarily choose to follow. It’s like bitching that your Facebook “friends” are spamming you. Why did you make them friends, then. OK, there are people who will try to [...]

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