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DRM, succinctly

by ben @ Sunday, October 12th, 2008. Tags: , , ,
Filed under dot drm, dot entertainment, dot tech, dot wtf

DRM Free:
Amazon for your mainstream stuff
Amie Street for indies and up-and-coming artists

The face that launched a thousand cards

by ben @ Saturday, July 19th, 2008. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under dot family, dot tech

Sometime in early January 2006, La Angela took Baby Emma out on her first walk. Emma was about 3 weeks old. Wifey, looking for picture fodder for her newly-deployed husband, took our nice DV cam which had a crappy 1.3-megapixel camera function and took a horridly off-center but cute picture of Emma. [...]

Virii

by ben @ Thursday, May 29th, 2008. Tags: , , ,
Filed under dot internet, dot tech

I’ve had an interesting weekend with viruses on this compy. I don’t really have it licked, yet either.
It started with an email Friday from La Angela saying that the background changed to an adware warning, and a bugs screen saver kicked in. Hoo, boy. What I discovered knows many names, apparently, and [...]

Loss of hard drive

by ben @ Saturday, March 1st, 2008. Tags: , , ,
Filed under dot tech

Today, I figuratively tried to make an omelet, and I broke a few eggs.
Literally, I was playing with Wubi, and couldn’t see anything on my monitor. I pressed the reset button on the compy, and was greeted with an “invalid boot.ini” followed by a BSOD. I loaded up the CD to go into [...]

Nerds and Geeks, a post in two acts

by ben @ Saturday, February 23rd, 2008. Tags: , ,
Filed under dot stuff, dot tech

Act I
For the people who love nerds: The Nerd Handbook.
A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.
Yeah, sometimes.
The post discusses things like your nerd’s control issues, the cave he has built (which [...]

A fairly link-free multi-link

by ben @ Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under dot entertainment, dot stuff, dot tech

I had a resolution that I didn’t wanna reveal.  I had resolved to try to put one post per day up here.  I had been hit and miss, but last night was the second night I wilfully declined to blog anything… Friday was the first.  The first bullet point below explains all.
This is mostly stuff [...]

Time Warner testing data limits on service plans

by ben @ Thursday, January 17th, 2008. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under dot internet, dot tech

This, frankly, sucks.
They are attempting to do is what many Canadian internet providers do — set a limit on how much you can download in a single month, and charge you for the overages.
Mr. Dudley said the company was still working on what to charge people who exceed their limits, but he pointed to Bell [...]

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