Category Archives: tech

James Robinson mentions his first-gen Tivo has the wrong timezone — fortunately it seems that Tivo was smart enough to send show times in epoch time instead of local time so recordings still work. My DirecTivo had similar problems, but … Continue reading →

My friend Keith has done rotating backgrounds on his desktop for a while, and I was thinking today that it would be kind of nice to do that as well. Step 1: Download some files and put them in a … Continue reading →

first nobody uses it, now this: There is a major zero day bug announced in solaris 10 and 11… Ouch. Goes without saying — if you’re using it: stop.

Can anybody explain to me why — in 2007 — after the google web accelerator, after the rails meltdowns, after google mass wiki deletions, after approximately 572,349 blog rants on RFC 2616 9.1 and 13.9….. Why the “delete this post” … Continue reading →

I am completely uninterested in sites like digg.com. It seems like they’ve managed to create the intellectual heft of slashdot without a centralized set of editors. One digg-linked author took the matter into his own hands and blocked access from … Continue reading →

To be able to tote subscription/read status between machines and OSes, I’ve switched (mostly) from using a desktop feed aggregator to using the web-based ones. So far, I haven’t found one I’m really happy with. Bloglines: The good: single-key navigation … Continue reading →