Archive for April, 2008

April 28, 2008 – Click on image for higher resolution version.

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Have you ever been in a pop-up window (like Haloscan comments use) and wished you could see the menubar and toolbar? If you use Firefox, and install the Unhide Menubar Add-on you can get the menu bar and toolbar to reappear for that window.

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April 17, 2008 – Click on image for higher resolution version.

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April 17, 2008 – Click on image for higher resolution version.

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I thought I had looked for a website for Clam Chowder and failed to find one, but I just looked again and found Clam Chowder’s Web Page. They are one my favorite groups, and I am glad to see that they are still “semi-active.”

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April 19, 2008 – Click on image for higher resolution version.

I updated to the Hardy Heron Ubuntu Linux release candidate today with remarkably little fuss.

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April 17, 2008 – Click on image for higher resolution version.

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It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. I bet this kind of thing does not happen to heroin addicts. I bet that when serious heroin addicts go to purchase their heroin, they do not tolerate waiting in line while some dilettante in front of them orders a hazelnut smack-a-cino with cinnamon sprinkles. ~Dave Barry

Coffee Quotes and Sayings about Caffeine

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Created on April 16, 2008.

Kaleidoscope is fun drawing toy that requires a fairly up to date browser.

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I have had almost no personal experience of Windows Vista, and having watched my manager struggle with it on her laptop, I am quite content to keep it that way. Randall C Kennedy of InfoWorld decided to compare Vista versus XP and Windows 2000 on the same hardware and produced this chart.

Not only is Vista and Office 2007 the most bloated desktop software stack ever to emerge from Redmond, its system requirements are so out of proportion with recent hardware trends that only the latest and greatest from Intel or AMD can support its epically porcine girth.

Read the complete article.

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