This is pretty cool – I am knitting, listening to a podcast of “KnitCast”:http://www.knitcast.com on my ‘pod. So far I listened to the first one about “knitting and biology”:http://scifiville.typepad.com/knitcast/2005/02/first_edition_o.html and then I listened to the one that was “an interview of Pam Allen”:http://scifiville.typepad.com/knitcast/2005/05/knitcast07_pam_.html the Editor of “Interweave Knits Magazine”:http://www.interweaveknits.com, which I recently subscribed to, even…
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Gmail ups limits!
Wowsa! I love using Gmail, especially for list subscriptions – the conversation format of messages makes things so much easier to follow. But now, so as not to be undone by all of the other free email programs that are upping their limits following the beta release of Gmail, they have double their large 1…
Tacos and Rubber Ducks
I just want to make note of two really cool applications for use on the Mac. The first is “Taco HTML Edit”:http://www.tacosw.com p{background:white;width:230px;height:133px;}. !http://tacosw.com/tacosoftwarelogo.gif!:http://www.tacosw.com and the second is the ftp client, “Cyberduck”:http://cyberduck.ch !/images/cyberduck.jpg!:http://www.cyberduck.ch
Our neighborhood
Here’s an old black and white aerial of our neighborhood courtesy of “TerraServerUSA.”:http://terraserver-usa.com/ Pretty cool site – check it out! Works much better and faster than the old one I had used before. !/images/15.jpg (our neighborhood)!
a bit o this torrent and a bit o that lost
We had intended to watch the “LOST”:http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index.html episodes that we missed during the December break, after we caught the replay of the pilot. But alas, I didn’t realize they were playing 2 episodes, back to back, and along with other dvr mishaps, we missed SEVERAL episodes. So, thanks to good ‘ol technology, I have borrowed…
New PC on it’s way
So it’s ordered, due to be delivered on Friday- Booyah! (see the great effort I’m making The geek specs: Athlon 2700+ 512mb RAM 80 gig hd DVD-rom DVD-burner 128mb DDR video card all wrapped up in this pretty box: !http://images10.newegg.com/ProductImageCompressAll125/11-145-047-01.jpg(pretty new pc box)! You wouldn’t believe all of the deals I scored at my favorite…
No New Mac Yet
Emphasis on the YET!. I am a determined soul. But finances dictate around here, unfortunately. So, I’m putting together an order at “New Egg”:http://www2.newegg.com (the bestest place to order computer stuff I’ve found yet) for as minimal without getting junk, a Windows-based PC that I can. Kind of depressing. I would normally be so excited…
Ohhhhh spammers – dirty words to you!
Bottomfeedingscumsuckingspammers. Nasty spammers started relaying spam though my server and in the process managed to get our IP blacklisted at spamcop. Good thing I have great support through my NOC, and they were able to guide me to a way to shut them down. Then I had to go to spamcop and they do have…
Back to Mac
Well I repaired “mom’s old Lombard Powerbook”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/starzabove/3820592/ – man, it makes me want to go back to Mac even MORE! So, I’m planning to do just that. I’m going to reacquaint myself by using the ancient 333mghz “Lombard”:http://www.lowendmac.com/pb2/lombard.shtml with it’s lovely bronze keyboard (lovely to type on that is, since I have always said that…
Human Clock
How cool is this? The “Human Clock”:http://www.humanclock.com/clock.php People submit photos with the time showing for every minute of the day and it updates on the minute. Anyone can submit a photo. Hmmmmmmmmmmm…..