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This week last year

Technophobia and women

I’ve been watching the lastest “woman marketing” spree by Dell with interest. It’s hit feminist websites and mailing lists, and the response has been exactly what you would expect. The dumbing down of technology, with the special addition of making sure the wee lady-brains can understand that it’s useful for tracking exercize and dieting, has [...]

Some days I’m too smart for my own good

I am a fool. Sometimes I forget that being a techie doesn’t make me uber-technical; it just makes me able to troubleshoot.
Over the holidays, I had several days off from work. I figured that this would be the perfect time to do some upgrading on my web server, especially since I hadn’t really worked on [...]

Post number one

You gotta love converting from one posting system to another. This process will hopefully be less painful than I’m expecting, but only because I’m expecting it to be purely manual. Time to start looking for conversion software, I guess.
From a practical, and readership, standpoint this means that the archives will slowly be rebuilt. But all [...]

Cars that run on compressed air

Found out about this one from some coworkers. Fascinating stuff. They’re trying to mass produce a car that only requires enough energy to compress air in the tank to 4500PSI.
Wiki article
the air car – the official site

Jammers

I just ordered some EarJams from Griffin. I love my iPod, but finding headphones that aren’t horrible has made me resort to the ones my Dad passed along when he gave me his ancient walkman. These things are so old the foam is rotting off. But they hurt less than the ear buds, especially since [...]