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Tesla toots its own horn 23 May 2013 | 04:42 am
TESLA REPAYS DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY LOAN NINE YEARS EARLY Tesla talks the talk, walks the walk, and pays its debts. I like this company.
Windows 8 is more popular than Vista 18 May 2013 | 04:41 am
These usage numbers prove that Windows 8 is catching on.
Bug # 698544 is Symbolic of Why the Gnome Linux Desktop is Completely Unusable 12 May 2013 | 06:42 am
Bug 698544 – Background configuration is missing in terminal profile editor The guys over at Gnome have got that Steve Jobs attitude going: screw the moronic users — they don’t know what’s good for th...
Vim Adventures 11 May 2013 | 11:50 pm
Vim Adventures Turnng a formidable learning curve into an amusing game is always a good idea.
Three Monitors on one iMac 23 Apr 2013 | 09:24 am
You can’t have too many monitors when you’re in developer mode — one for web browsers, one for editors, and one for the techno/dance videos. The problem is, your Mac is limited to one external monitor...
Installing OpenCOBOL on OS X is a fist fight 21 Apr 2013 | 11:04 am
1 Happiness is a hot soldering iron I don’t have a mainframe to learn COBOL on, so I’ve installed OpenCOBOL on a couple of my machines. On Fedora it installed with a simple sudo yum install open-cobol...
COBOL: my hello world program 10 Apr 2013 | 04:54 am
After many years of mindlessly dissing COBOL (without knowing the first thing about it), I installed OpenCOBOL and wrote my first “Hello world” program. If you don’t have a clue about COBOL, but you w...
Review: HTML & CSS: design and build websites 7 Apr 2013 | 01:22 am
HTML & CSS: design and build websites by Jon Duckett teaches HTML, CSS, and, by example, Design. Few HTML instructional books are as pleasurable to look at. The next time you’re in a Real World bookst...
Lazy, Egotistical Man Meets Protocol-less URLs 6 Apr 2013 | 10:05 am
Lately I’ve noticed that some URLs are missing their protocol. This is what I’m talking about: @font-face { font-family: 'Roboto'; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; src: url('//themes.googleuserco...
Books: A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony 16 Mar 2013 | 09:26 am
This is a fun book that explains in full-on geek detail the origin of Ninjas, manga, cosplay, and the Japanese fascination with robots. If your goal in life is to become a Japanese pop culture phenome...
