Monthly Archives: November 2006

Synaptics Touchpad Area Buttons–Linux Warning

I know. With a cou­ple not able excep­tions, the few peo­ple who read my blog don’t care about linux one bit. But I’m still play­ing with it (I gave up on the wire­less for now, and my fonts still look like poop, but I’m not nearly as angry as I was). But here’s some impor­tant infor­ma­tion [...]
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Mr. Dilbert’s Speaking Voice

I guess the guy who draws Dil­bert has some speak­ing prob­lems. And they got fixed recently. There’s a great story about it on the Lan­guage Log. The good parts are the sec­tions in blue, which are excerpted from his own blog. I rec­om­mend read­ing the begin­ning to get an idea of the prob­lem, then skip­ping [...]
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The New Job

I’ve had a cou­ple peo­ple tell me they weren’t so much inter­ested in Linux and wanted to know about the new job. I’ve been plan­ning on post­ing some­thing about it here for a while (I’ve been here more than a week and a half now), but just haven’t got­ten around to it. Hon­estly, I really haven’t [...]
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Allen Ginsberg

I got a book of Gins­berg poems out of the library a cou­ple days ago because he was one of those poets that I’ve always felt like I should know and have under­stood, but who I’ve never actu­ally read and really don’t have the faintest idea about. What I didn’t know was that he was actu­ally [...]
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