I gave up Facebook and Twitter for Lent. Well, I gave up most of Facebook[1] and Twitter for Lent. I’m allowing myself five minutes of time on Facebook and Twitter each day (total for the both of them, and no rollover minutes). And even then, the only reason I’m doing that is because there are…
Technology’s Infestation of my Life Archives
Examples of how technology has permeated every single bit of my life.
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In roughly this order: Dating La Girlfriend[1] Going back to Haiti Installing/configuring my new Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid Drive Being eligible to run for US Representative (i.e. my quarter century birthday) Photo by Matt Sizer [↩]
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Back In The Day™ I went to college with a kid named Lance Atkins. We shared many interests, including eating spaghetti every other Wednesday night. We were also lab partners in Machine Design, “an introduction to the principles of mechanical design [where m]ethods for determining static, fatigue and surface failure are presented.”[1] We had fun.…
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I’ll drool over some new toy I’d love to have from time to time, but I’m not usually one to let my impulses get the best of me in that regard. However, Nikon’s new DSLR camera, the rumored D7000, could be one of those things I just have to get. I’ve had my D70 for…
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Ten years ago, I walked into high school with a brand new Toshiba Satellite 2210 CDT. It wasn’t state-of-the-art, but it was pretty decent for its time. It had a 500 MHz Intel Celeron processor, 64 MB of RAM, and a 6 GB hard drive (which took up about 62.9 cm3, or 0.1 GB/cm3). The…
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Apple has, yet again, released a new iPhone. To no ones surprise, it looks strikingly similar to one that Gizmodo managed to acquire under dubious circumstances, at best, a few months ago. I’m currently oogling how small it is: My droid comes in a 14mm thick versus the iPhone 4G 9.4mm[1], almost a 33% reduction…
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Ignite Seattle 10 is coming up just around the corner on June 14th, so mark your calendars. They had a call for submissions and I thought, “What the heck. But what to present on? It needs to be funny, but also relevant. And not a shill for some product.” As it turned out, I had…
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I use Google Voice for all my voicemail needs. One of the cool features, in theory, is that it will transcribe a voicemail left for me and send it to my phone or email. This is great when I’m in a meeting or in class and can’t actually listen to the voicemail, but I can…
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I had this really annoying box pop up whenever I plugged by iPod into my computer that said, "Do you want to scan and fix YUKON (I:)?" It happened when I was running Windows Vista and it happened when I was running Windows 7. It took a half second…
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I’ve been using Windows 7 on my Toshiba M700 Tablet since the RTM was available on MSDN a couple of months ago. And it’s been great! No kidding. There were a handful of drivers I needed to download from Toshiba, but everything just works, except f…