Over the last 8 or so years, blog scripts, site content management systems, site hosting, and desktop web publishing clients have grown so sophisticated that authoring and administering a personal site is trivial these days. If you can deal with Microsoft Office, you can do this. Microsoft, spotting an area to dominate, has already made [...]
So I’ve been playing City of Villains once every few months on my friend’s son’s account as I house sit for them. So why wasn’t I playing World of Warcraft, which was also on my friend’s machine? The irrational reasons I haven’t tried WoW yet are: Simply everyone is doing it these days or has [...]
There were images in my last post but, many of you probably didn’t see them because Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t support cascading stylesheets as well as it should. Now, you really shouldn’t worry about this because Microsoft Vista is coming out soon. If you buy a new computer with Vista, many of you out there [...]
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows anybody. Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897) I apologize for the length of the following. I didn’t have time to make it concise. How do I start? On Monday evening, October 23rd, sometime before 6:24PM, a very close friend of mine [...]
This is some news to me (Which only shows the limits of my expertise.) but you can actually build your own laptop. Things aren’t quite as modular as desktops. You don’t have the freedom to use one motherboard with another case, powersupply, screen or heat sink. But once you decide on the bare bones case [...]
So if you don’t mind running the Wine emulator on occasion, if you don’t mind being careful with what hardware you install, if don’t mind native ports of older games or if you don’t mind games with older technology and sporadic support, there are tonnes of games you can run in Linux. This entry was [...]
So a friend of mine sent me an e-mail from an Internet connection near some sunny beach overseas telling me he has a MySpace page. This drove me into paroxysms of pointless, defensive snobbiness where I told him that he has his own web site, which is much better than MySpace. But I had to [...]
1989 to 1994: Udra Becomes More Serious, if Schitzophrenic. After a long hiatus, between ’84 and ’89, where I pretended I was normal person and denied my true nature, I met a new friend who revived my interest in roleplaying games again. To start with, his first character he built was a cleric! No one [...]
So I just recently learned that my domain name is worth $10,400 but my actual site is only worth $564.54. I also learned that I can reasonably demand $30 for each and every text ad that appears on my site. Do you find those numbers hard to believe? Well, they aren’t that bad. Let’s see [...]
Why is it that education seems so resistent to technological improvement?