Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Author: briansaghy
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Sabbatical [Day 0] The Great Voyage
Read More: Sabbatical [Day 0] The Great VoyageIf I had to pick one question to never hear again in my life, I think it would be “So, are you all packed?” The only time that somebody could ask me this question and hear an affirmation is if you are in the car with me on the way to the airport. As anybody…
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Break up with your DNS servers
Read More: Break up with your DNS serversWhen you sign up for an internet provider, like Earthlink, AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, Roadrunner, etc – the first thing you probably look at is the bandwidth that you’ll be getting. “7mbps down, 780kbps up” Sounds super, right? But then how many times do you type a URL in the browser, or even search for…
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WebOS gets fixed. A lot.
Read More: WebOS gets fixed. A lot.A while back I wrote a post about what the Palm Pre and WebOS were missing. It has been nearly 4 months since I bought the phone, and Palm has made great strides in updating its feature set and fixing many bugs that I wasn’t even initially aware of. Some of these same features took…
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Palm Pre Cheap Cheap Charging
Read More: Palm Pre Cheap Cheap ChargingOne of the major complaints of the Palm Pre is that its battery life is less than stellar. A simple workaround is of course to keep it plugged in. Carrying a charger around, of course, stinks. However, do to the magic that is IEEE standardization, there is no need for proprietary Palm chargers, as microUSB…
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What the Palm Prē is missing
Read More: What the Palm Prē is missingThere have been some annoyances with Palm Pre’s WebOS. I thought it was worth publishing the lacking features and gripes of the Palm Pre so that people who are considering purchasing the phone can decide if it would be a deal breaker, and also I hope that Palm may read this and fix the issues.
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Cat and Squirrel
Read More: Cat and SquirrelSo back in January, I got a cat from Austin Siamese Rescue named Parker. He is rather awesome, and cute, and all of those things that cats generally can be. He’s about 12 years old, they say, but he acts like a kitten sometimes, batting around toys and doing the cartoonish running-but-not-moving on my slick…
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eBay Spam
Read More: eBay SpamEvery time I buy something on eBay, I’m frustrated by how much excessive mail fills up my inbox with repetitive garbage. Yesterday I purchased a new keyboard. Here is a chronological list of the subject headers that have flooded in over 24 hours. I expect at least 4 more to follow: You eBay bid is…
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Things that BUZZ [and i know why]
Read More: Things that BUZZ [and i know why]Dear GSM mobile phone carrier, Fix your network. Fix your communication protocol. I am sick and tired of hearing interference from every cell phone which is on your network on my speakers, on my headphones on my landline on the conference room phone, and seeing my monitor shake and shimmy every time my LG decides…
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Things That BEEP [and i don’t know why]
Read More: Things That BEEP [and i don’t know why]The piezo-electric buzzer salesman is one of the most successful businessman of his time. Perhaps not economically, but he certainly got his product into more devices around the world than I personally would ever have wished for. The buzzer is a simple device – a piece of flexible crystal which flexes itself when an electrical…
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(Not So) Foreign Accents
Read More: (Not So) Foreign AccentsSo I’m back in Ohio for the holidays. In a coffee shop. There is a table to my right, with two older women and an Amish man seated. They are speaking. I cannot understand them. Dutch? The women are not dressed as Amish, and it would be odd for them to be speaking Amish Dutch.…