Thoughts
Podcasts make me grumpy
Podcasts make me grumpy, and it has nothing to do with their quality or content.? It’s just podcasts in general.? I’ve been pretty stressed lately.? Not entirely sure why, because work is damn fun.? It might just be that there is too much on in my life. When I have a break, perhaps during a [...]
Delete this feed unless it amuses you
Delete this blog from your RSS aggregator.? If you’re one of my 230 subscribers, and you don’t find it interesting, useful, or amusing, delete it now.? How else are we going to improve the quality of the blogosphere? I’m cleaning out my closet.? I’m removing a bunch of feeds from my aggregator that have just [...]
Yahoo! Mail’s Crappy Spam Filter
…or “how I learned to stop fighting spam and love GMail”. My itchy keyboard was nudged by a recent comment on my old Yahoo! Mail Beta review post. If you’ve been reading for a while you’ll remember that I was a huge fan of Oddpost, to the point of continuing to use Oddpost despite their [...]
Yet Another Cancer-Related Blog Post
After getting over the initial shock when my father was diagnosed with a choroidal melanoma on Friday, my thoughts turned to blogging. Specifically an intention not to add to the thousands of “my father/mother/brother has cancer” posts. What’s the point? If you have no experience of such an event, the post is largely redundant – [...]
Over the Hill
Thirty One. Goddamn. Do I have to stop acting like a kid now? Take responsibility, stop playing games, become a role model? Jeeze I really hope not. Growing older has taught me one thing: age itself does not bestow intelligence nor demand respect. Sure, young kids (high school and below) should respect (most) older people [...]
Modern Society
I was a total asshole earlier, and for that I blame modern society. I’m not being facetious. Modern culture – especially marketing – has drummed into me that anyone speaking about unadulterated pleasure or with pure praise for a product must be trying to sell me something. The standard backlash is to be a cynical, [...]
Redesign?
I’ve been thinking about Good Web Design of late, and wondering if Gadgetophile doesn’t need a bit of a makeover. It was only recently that I hacked the latest design together from another WordPress template, but I can’t help feeling that it’s a little bit cluttered. I’ve embraced advertising since the last redesign, and the [...]
Big Effort
The road was closed on the way into work (yes, Saturday work, damn deathmarch coding sucks), to make way for a helicopter lifting some giant letters onto a highrise building. This inspired a couple of thoughts: I wonder if the marketing/branding department think about this sort of thing when they decide to rebrand an organisation? [...]
Component Video
I’m an idiot. Here I am, purporting to be a geek, a gadgetophile, a nerd, and I didn’t know the difference between composite, S-Video and component video. Oh don’t get me wrong: I was always well aware of the mechanical differences, and the proliferation of plugs and connections in the back of the television. Heck, [...]
Optimus OLED Keyboard
Back to our normal programming… I have some reservations about this undoubtably uber-sexy Optimus OLED keyboard. Like what happens when one of the OLEDs fails after a few months? Could you live with a blank key for ever? How about two or three blank keys? However I’d not be above spending US$300 on a keyboard [...]
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