Monthly Archives: May 2007
Proof that The Geeks Are Wrong
A little while ago, I read an article that talked about 5 myths about Linux, basically five reasons that people are jumping whole hog on the Linux train. It wasn’t a bad article (of course, it didn’t compare to my post on the myths about Linux, but then again, I don’t see anybody submitting [...]
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This Beautiful Mess, Completed
I finished This Beautiful Mess (a book about the kingdom of God that I blogged about earlier). Overall, it was pretty good. I didn’t feel like he did a very good:
a. explaining what the kingdom of God actually isb. putting out any really new ideasc. arguing why he thinks this is what [...]
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Extract Image from Word without Losing Quality
Say somebody sends you a word document. And there’s an image in it that you want to save. You copy and paste it from Word into the Gimp. Then you cry because you suddenly lost all sorts of quality.
You paste it into something else. Still horrific quality.
Here’s what to do: [...]
I Agree with Josh Harris
I hate ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’. I could even bring myself to read it because I think the title is so stupid and so many people who read it in college (when it was cool) went so wacko about it.
But I just read something on Josh Harris (the author’s) blog about online dating.
It’s [...]
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Excel ‘Save As Webpage’ Fonts Blurry
At work, we’ve hacked together a dashboard with some key metrics to enhance our productivity via synergistic measureability.
Or something like that.
In any case, you know it’s a hack because we’re using Excel’s ‘save as web page’ function to push Excel charts up via to the web. Hack. O. Rama. My main goal [...]
The Sound of Computers Talking to Each Other
Here’s a really interesting web page. They stuck two computers, or rather software, designed to imitate a person in a chatroom in a…um…room with each other and let them go at it.
Here’s the conversation of two computers.
Fascinating stuff.
1000th Post!
Here it is, folks. My 1000th post! In the spirit of Amanda and Jonathan, I’m now going to post 1000 things about myself.
In the next 1000 posts.
What I AM going to do with this post is reflect a little bit on my glorious blogging career, by which I mean, share some stats. For [...]
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Amazing Garage Sale Find
I haven’t posted about a guitar pedal in a long time. In fact, I think I stopped caring a LOT about guitar gear not too long before I started blogging.
In any case, I haven’t had a good guitar gear find in a long time. But this weekend, my father-in-law found this at a [...]
Lost and Heroes
I’ve been watching Lost since it started. And recently, I decided to catch up on Heroes b/c I could (thank you online episodes). Heroes is REALLY good, like the comic book that you always wished you could read, but could never get into b/c there was approximately 30 years of backstory you didn’t [...]
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