Entries tagged with 'tech culture':

New Server
Things might be a bit wonky here for a little while since I moved the site to a new server over the weekend. Stay tuned while we get the kinks out.... This entry has been tagged as

There's something you don't see every day
Wow, a Google error. I like the lo-fi logo, like they never expected it to show up. I don’t think it’s an old logo, because I couldn’t find it in archive.org... This entry has been tagged as

Change OS by Switching Boxes!
I love seeing all the wacky computer designs people post on mini-itx.com. Today they have a tiny PC designed by Andy France which, when placed inside a Windows XP box, runs Windows, but when placed into a Red Hat box,... This entry has been tagged as

Nothing everyone should have
I don't usually download and try out new applications. There are a very select few things that I bother with. The fun of trying homebrewed software gadgets on a desktop computer is, for me, sadly overshadowed by all the work... This entry has been tagged as

This'll fix your PC real good
Gary Rogers writes that he's got a new answer for everyone who's always asking him for computer advice. I'm the designated technical support person in my family, and reading this is like being a beatnik in a poetry bar. I'm... This entry has been tagged as

Rooting for Microsoft (Sort Of)
Zeldman is talking about the chilling implications of the recent Eolas vs Microsoft ruling will have on web developers. I would hope that more people would adopt alternative browsers, such as Mozilla or Firebird, but I suspect that won't be... This entry has been tagged as

Revenge of the 80s Hardware
Saturday was the culmination of a months-long process of getting my Macintosh SE/30 connected to the Internet. I'd gotten a "new" hard drive (twice, the first one I ordered was bad), bought a Dayna brand Ethernet adapter, gotten the right... This entry has been tagged as

Tivo v. Cox PVR
Only a month into using the Cox Personal Video Recorder (built by Scientific Atlantica) and returned to using DirecTivo. Tivo is just more elegant and mature as a product; whereas the Cox PVR (built by Scientific Atlantica) presented us with... This entry has been tagged as

Echo of the Revolution
On my way to work Tuesday I spied an Apple IIe lying atop a heap of garbage outside a recently sold house. I stopped and eyed it for a while. It was mottled brown from years of handling and had... This entry has been tagged as

Japanese Gadgets
There seems to be something of a market in America for Japanese gadgets. These are the small electronic devices that are marketed in Japan long before they reach the stores here in North America. Kokoro is a new web log... This entry has been tagged as

Web Standards & Me
I've been reading Zeldman's excellent book, Designing With Web Standards and been I've inspired to dump the tired old table based layout of this site. Right now all I've done is dump all the old code in favour of the... This entry has been tagged as

A 'Blogging' Life for Me
First of all I admit to severly disliking the term Blog -- it just seems a little too convienient and cute for me. I also don't like the fact that there is a populist need to give awards to the... This entry has been tagged as

Genuinely Unusable Interface
Don't try to catch a bus with this phone... This entry has been tagged as

God Blogs
Looks like God has caught the blogging bug as well. It's pretty interesting to read the personal thoughts of one's deity. For example who knew that God prefered Playstation? I guess we all know that satan prefers the X Box... This entry has been tagged as

Mozilla Pop-Up Killer
The new version has a built in script & window killer. This will stop web sites from opening unrequested windows. Edit > Prefrences > Advanced > Scripts & Windows The developers of Mozilla are real web users addressing the concerns... This entry has been tagged as

EV3C
A while back Jake showed me a program he wrote in highschool called Evolution. Basically its like the old UNIX game 'Life', but the user is able to see and change attibutes of the oranisms. I've always gotten excited... This entry has been tagged as

Typographica
Coudal is pointing to a new typographic blog called Typographica and calling it a replacement for Lines and Splines (which is not going to be updated any longer and even the archive appears to be offline today).... This entry has been tagged as

Sizing in CSS
Zeldman talks about using em's in CSS. I've tried various units in my stylesheets including em's, but the size of the type always varied so much in different browsers and platforms. Now I've taken to using pixels as a standard... This entry has been tagged as

Links.net Redux
I still have no idea what Justin Hall is talking about on his blog thing.... This entry has been tagged as

A transplanted Canadian, Tricia Harvey (trish at designkitten dot com) is a former vice president of Spain, has written several books on macro economics including the Pulitzer Prize winning Macro Economics and You - An Introduction and has climbed Mount Everest a record six times. Tricia Harvey now lives in Fairfax, Virginia with her former lead Sherpa named Jacob, two cats, and a bunch of fish all named Hector. Huh? What's that you say?