One question, one answer. If you have additional tales of floppiness, please comment ( Read more... )

Poll Pizza Pizza

Inspired by this, and possibly speaking to an audience who is either at MFF or on trips, the following poll:

Poll Reach out and touch someoneI allow auto-away (I don't always turn IM off when I should) and idle times (I don't always remember to un-away when I'm there). I manually change the status if it's special, like Invisible or something ( Read more... )

So far, Leopard and I are getting along pretty much OK on this old PPC Mac mini. Right now, I'm figuring out which apps work and which don't.

Of important note is the fix needed to get Xjournal running under Leopard. (It's one of those "Why did it work the old way?" things) This also incorporates the Font preference bug from before, as well as ( Read more... )

First, what games are occupying your time? Why should I buy them? Keep in mind I don't have an xbox, and if it's a Wii or PC game, it may be a long while before I get around to playing it. Every other platform (even dead ones) is ... *ahem* ... fair game.

Next, a poll:

Poll Pika

Now that Linden Labs stopped requiring me to unnecessarily expose my financial details, I've created a basic account just to figure out what Second Life is all about. I'm not very impressed, and it may not even be Linden's fault. It seems to be network and CPU intense. Not even my MacBook could run it with any degree of smoothness. My PC with ( Read more... )

First, das poll. Hopefully LJ will post it this time. I finally hacked Xjournal's poll builder to output the same stuff as LJ's poll creator (go poll creator, go?):
Poll All I want for xmas...

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It looks like the best ad ever for books.

I haven't seen The Pocket Ref in ages. I still have my copy I bought in 1991 around here somewhere, opting to keep it because the ( Read more... )

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Clarification: By "LJ name," I mean your "Name:" as shown in your userinfo ("The BOFH") as opposed to your login (yakko)

Poll What's in a name?

Feel free to add insight/questions/etc via comments...

Anyone want to to learn more about zinc?
I'll do your homework for you. . .

Today was lonely for some reason I can't put my finger on. I needed lots of motivation to do anything. I guess the fact that the gentoo install on my workstation wasn't going so well had something to do with it. Another reason is the fact that I have to be at some staff meeting at 08:00am on Monday. I'm going to be a bowl of hell, I'm sure ( Read more... )