Pet peeve: Login forms that move the cursor to the username field AFTER the page finishes loading. Sometimes I'm already typing by then.

I've finally done it. After resisting for years, I've bought an iPod.

Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. Our music collection is on alenxa's computer, which is old enough that its USB port is USB 1.1. This hasn't been a problem until now, since she syncs her iPod with Firewire. Little did I know that the latest generation of ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting idea: Googolplex Theaters creates a virtual reality movie theater so that, effectively, everyone gets their own screen.

Of course, once you simulate a screen in VR, why stop there? You've already got 3-D in the display, and between the backlog of 3-D movies and a decade or so of computer animation, there are a lot of

I realized I really ought to finish and post at least one of the joke websites I recently bought/reserved/whatever within the next week. Not because I need to have it before vacation, but because it ought to be online by April 1.

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A few months ago, I read six or seven webcomics on a daily basis. These days it's down to two: Something Positive and Queen of Wands. And looking at my bookmarks list, the only other one I feel a desire to catch up on is Real Life, which, now that I've been reminded of it, I can't figure out why I stopped reading. Fortunately a quick trip to the ( Read more... )

Mozilla Firefox has hit 1.0! Download servers were swamped earlier, but they seem okay now. If you have trouble downloading, there’s always BitTorrent.


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I usually use an LJ client called Drivel to post from Linux. Like many software projects, they use code names for each release. (1.0, for instance, was also known as "Yeah, it really happened.")

The latest version, 1.2, appears to be called The Hero of Canton.

(I really need to pick up a Firefly icon or two.)