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A word about Comcast

Technology is fragile. Systems go down all the time because someone forgot to maintain something, or someone deleted a file or a variable that they thought no one was using. In other words with Murphy's Law there are plenty of opportunities to put al

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 10:48 PM

Chin-dropping photo

An astounding AP photo of Barack Obama waving to his fans in Berlin earlier today. I saw this one scroll by on a large HDTV and couldn't believe my eyes. There's so much detail in the picture, so many stories, so many cameras! This is the really coo

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 10:44 PM

Comcast shut me down again

Oy. This is probably the end of the line for me and Comcast. About an hour before today's Obama speech, I was upstairs, with Slingplayer on the 2nd monitor, Audio HIjack Pro ready to record, when the net went down. I figured it was another outage, we

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 02:06 PM

Inching toward federation

I have a problem that a lot more people are having. I use three "micro-blogging" platforms. 1. Twitter 2. FriendFeed 3. Identi.ca Each has strengths. FriendFeed can thread a discussion under each mini-post. It works better for me than the discussion

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 11:38 AM

Losing followers on Twitter?

I stopped keeping track of the number of people following me on Twitter, I know it was pretty high, but I also know it wasn't a true measure of how many people were paying attention to what I said there. Some of them, I assume, are people who tried

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 09:42 AM

TechJunk picking up steam

Tech.NewsJunk.Com was born on the 4th of July, just like the United States of America. I chose a holiday so the expectations wouldn't be too high, cause I knew at first it would be hard to find the kinds of stories I was looking for, news about produ

Posted: Jul. 23, 2008 08:46 PM

Poster for Obama rally in Berlin

Posted: Jul. 23, 2008 01:01 AM

Future-safe archives, again

I was on a cleanup and backup binge today, and came across a folder on one of my disks entitled Trade Secrets in a place where it didn't belong. I did a search on my LAN and found it was my only copy, not just here, but on the net too. I had made a

Posted: Jul. 23, 2008 12:13 AM

How to for Time Machine?

I have a surplus of disk space, so I decided to give Time Machine a try. I have a 500GB disk that's empty. I designated it as the Time Machine disk. I have one external disk that I want to keep backed up. I don't care about the internal disk, but th

Posted: Jul. 22, 2008 06:32 PM

Vanity Fair covers The New Yorker

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Posted: Jul. 22, 2008 02:54 PM

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