Unfortunately, the attempt to export to WordPress… well, just didn’t work well for me. I’d forgotten that my webhosting package just doesn’t seem to like anything with large […]
ebooks / technology
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Digital Books Should (still) Not Just Mean PDF
It was years ago when I first started emphatically noting that PDFs were fundamentally different than eBooks. I’ve not been alone in that, and kind of assumed by […]
society / technology
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Will Anonymous keep fighting crime?
Tell me something. Anonymous solves some cases faster than the cops. Doesn’t matter why, really. Just that it happened. They brought justice – more than once – when […]
advertising / technology
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A Startling Reminder That Google is an Advertising Company: Google Reader to Be Retired
We often forget that the big G is an advertising company first, and all the rest goes to serve that end. And with the startling announcement yesterday that […]
linux / technology / windows
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Colorize User NickNames in the middle of IRC messages ( colorize.pl XChat Plugin)
I’ve been using XChat2 for IRC for a while now (it’s free, it’s for Windows and *nix), and while looking for a solution to a different problem, I […]
linux / technology
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Pass OSX and Linux File Paths to Windows Programs Running Under WINE In One Script
tl;dr: Even with WINE to let you run Windows software in Linux or OSX, the filenames are formatted differently. This shell script fixes that so you can set […]