FIRST Tweetgeist (n) [from "zeitgeist", german, the intellectual and cultural climate of an era; and "tweet", to post a message on twitter.com]: The collected and distilled wisdom of one’s circle of advisors, as compiled via the “twitter” internet application. Example: I’m not sure if that restaurant is any good; let me check the tweetgeist. As [...]
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Tweetgeist
April 25, 2008
Think Small
March 12, 2008
A college student wrote in to Picnik asking for general advice about how to create a similar project for school. After reminding him that we’ve had a team of people working on Picnik for several years, and tossing a few book recommendations his way, I closed with this advice: Overall I think the best way [...]
Ubunting
December 16, 2007
I’m writing this blog post while running Ubuntu! The migration is now (more or less) complete and it had some delights and some frustrations. After spending a bunch of time trying, unsuccessfully, to re-partition my hard disk I decided to throw in the towel and just start from scratch with a complete overwrite. To my [...]
Leaping To Linux
December 9, 2007
Today I started preparations to convert my main computer over to linux. Ubuntu, specifically. This computer had become too slow and unstable and I figured if I was going to have to re-install Windows anyway, I might as well take the opportunity to make the conversion. It turns out my leap won’t be such a [...]
Zippy Mouse
November 7, 2007
Here’s a weird one: changing the refresh rate on my monitor here at work makes my mouse noticeably faster. Usually I run at 60Hz, but to deal with some hardware issues I sometimes change to 120Hz. And then my mouse cursor becomes so responsive it’s actually hard to control. Is the mouse software running off [...]
How Microsoft is losing
May 4, 2007
I’m working on a specification document for my new job. I need to draw a diagram showing how various servers communicate with each other. Unfortunately, Word keeps hanging after I get a few boxes done. I kill Word, submit the error report, and Microsoft tells me to download some updates. Fine. Except now I need [...]
Time to Convert Another One?
June 21, 2006
Kate and I did the server shuffle a few weeks ago. Kate’s desktop computer became our mail/web server, and our web/mail server became a file server, and Kate got a new Mac Mini to use as her desktop computer. We started setting up the file server yesterday — formatting the old computer and installing Windows XP [...]