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Monthly Archives: March 2005

What’s In Your Bag?

by Rob Friesel

As part “Meme-watch ’05” and in the proud tradition of “What’s On Your Dock?”, via Boing Boing — “What’s In Your Bag?” Spilling forth from a Timbuk2 Detour: KetelOne, K1’s power brick, K1’s VGA-out adapter, Firewire-to-Dock cable, about 4′ of Cat-5, back-up headphones, about $0.85, a folder with some papers in it, a clipboard with […]

Ctrl+F12

by Rob Friesel

ZDNet Australia reports: Torvalds switches to Apple: …’My main machine these days is a dual 2GHz G5 (aka PowerPC 970) – it’s physically a regular Apple Mac, although it obviously only runs Linux, so I don’t think you can call it a Mac any more ;)’ he said… Sick. currently playing:KMFDM “Go To Hell” (Fuck […]

wiki fever.

by Rob Friesel

Final thoughts of the evening before passing out in a puddle of my own cortical juices… Currently addicted to VoodooPad …er… Lite version anyway. The personal Wiki r0xx0rs my b0xx0rs. I’d heard about it about a month ago and was intrigued. I was a little hesitant to dive in though b/c my notes etc. were […]

When Geeks Get Religion

by Rob Friesel

Via Tao of Mac… Windows vs. Mac (the obvious one…) Debian vs. everything else Perl vs. PHP (vs. Python?) bash$ vs. tcsh% Developing for Mozilla vs. Developing for “the unmentionable majority” Instructions: List five similar (geek) issues you come across every other day, and add these instructions plus: A link back to the original post […]

Tiger Titillation.

by Rob Friesel

Could the flurry of buzz re: Tiger-related features be a sign that we’re to expect it sooner rather than later? Mark your calendars? UPDATE: TUAW speculation (via ThinkSecret that we’re looking at an April ship date… Whether/not they get sued again within the week will be the yardstick by which I measure this rumor’s credibility. […]

the F-word!

by Rob Friesel

FRAUD! My new credit card is on the way. Since apparently someone had their way with my last 16-digit mash-up. Some weird charges from Handango showed up on my January statement that I’ve been wrestling with ever since. And then today the bank calls to check in because an “internet transaction” on my card was […]

Monday Top 10.

by Rob Friesel

Via the Sampo Method: Lush “Thoughtforms” Jamiroquai “Canned Heat” Lush “For Love” Lush “De-Luxe” Spylab “Music Box” Lush “Etheriel” Spylab “Celluloid Hypnotic” Spylab “In The Shade” Spylab “Kabelski” Spylab “Breathe Easy”