My idea of “fun” lately has been to repurpose an old Mac G3 tower I bought for $5 more than three years ago into a Linux server. It’s been a valuable learning experience. The scary part is I’m actually enjoying the command line. I’m considering dropping a GUI interface on top to use from time [...]
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Squeezing in a little “fun” time
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On being clueless
Ponder this quote for a minute: “If there’s someone out there who votes for the candidate who Twitters more, then we need to take away his voter-registration card.” It’s from Michael Palmer, who headed the new media operations for the McCain-Palin campaign, in the Wall Street Journal. Everyone, and I mean everyone, votes for their [...]
Addicting your kids at an early age
This just isn’t right. It’s not! LeapFrog introduces “Baby BlackBerry” for kids. This is WAY too juvenile for our kids, though. They’re asking for the real thing.
Gmail has themes!
I guess I should have figured that there would be themes in Gmail because iGoogle does, but I just wasn’t paying attention. Playing around tonight, I found love in Shiny theme. I hope I don’t end up like Shiny fish.
PBS redesigns parents Web site
PBS Parents has redesigned its web site. Big news? I dunno. Just thought it was interesting. I am impressed by the orange; it woke me up this morning. A couple of areas do appear to be interesting: 1. The Guide to Understanding and Raising Girls section (it’s grape!!!!), and 2. Talking with Kids (more grape!!!!), [...]