Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Category: Technology
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The Hidden Costs of a Vanity Domain
Read More: The Hidden Costs of a Vanity DomainLately, as I’ve been looking at potentially shifting careers from Software Engineering to something more customer facing such as Developer Advocacy, I’ve really been forced to reckon with some personal technical debt – primarily this website, and most recently, my vanity e-mail address. Back in 2004, I felt amazingly fortunate to be able to register…
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While you were sleeping
Read More: While you were sleepingI moved this site. Notice, it is no longer on WordPress.com, but is now finally being hosted on my fancy shmancy long-time web host, Dreamhost. (Sign up with my promo code, SAGHYFREEDOMAIN, and get $82 off your first year and get a free domain name registration! Limited time only, where limited = basically forever) Note…
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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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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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International Dvorak Layout
Read More: International Dvorak LayoutBefore my study abroad in Spain, I realized that I was going to be doing quite a bit of writing en español, and that this was going to require some new keyboard adjusting, since I didn’t feel like doing the alt-01249 key combinations to get characters like ñ € ó ç º ü ¡ ¿,…