These things I found interesting.. 31 August 2005
- Engadget 1985
Remember computing in 1985? (Gee, I do.) Engadget has flashbacks.. ooh, it’s too weird - Cellphones are dangerous/snot dangerous/s, chapter 8041
Engadget again. I’m kinda worried about the guy in their picture though. Has he got Ebola? - Filesharing traffic continues to dominate
Certainly I found Lost eps 3 + 4 OK.. though it was more Bittrickle than Bittorrent… - Backup Strategies
Fraser worries about his hard drive dying. And worries. Every 29 minutes. (Seen at Fraser Speirs) - What A Universally Unique Product Name!
Go to Terminal (in OSX), type ‘uuidgen’. Voila! Longhorn could so nearly instead have been 3D86EC1C-7B35-46D4-AB81-4C6A12B41DB8.. (Seen at rentzsch.com: Tales from the Red Shed) - Elgato EyeTV and Digital Radio
The Elgato EyeTV 300 does digital radio too (Seen at 0×2a) - Movie Review: Primer
I’d like to see this. The reviews sound interesting. Mmm… time travel.. (Seen at 0×2a) - AMD’s big win, Carly’s revenge, blocking the Sun
The most interesting question is: is HP shifting to AMD instead of Intel? Now that would be a story. (Seen at Tom Yager) - Switch sans Switchers
Apple has updated its Switch site. (Mid-August. Hey, I’ve been away!). Apparently it’s “no longer about over-glorified Real People switching”. So, aliens? (Seen at curiously jeremiah) - The freelance life…
Wendy links to a nice (well, perhaps not nice) article about how freelancing life has changed. Extract:
We freelancers have always had to put up with magazines that die on us, along with butchered copy, chuckleheaded editors, rights-grabbing contracts, isolation, lost manuscripts, whacks to the ego, changed quotes, the absence of security or benefits, and—unkindest of all—the kill fee (i.e., paying authors a third or a quarter of the agreed-upon rate if an assigned piece is not used for virtually any reason, up to and including the fact that someone else wrote about Winona Ryder).
‘Tis true. (Seen at Wendy M. Grossman)
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