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I don’t think there’s a mnemonic aid for “mnemonic,” but I’m studying for a law exam, and it’s insanely conducive to various visual associations: Engel v. Vitale, the 1962 case that ruled that mandatory school prayer was an Establishment Clause violation. (You think?) Remember angels and that some thought it was vital to pray. A [...]
CNet posted a list of the “Top ten terrible tech products.” (The “products,” sadly, breaks their alliteration streak.) I’ll direct you to the funniest one ever—#2, the Barcode Battler. And, well, just watch it. The video starts off slow, but it’s well worth it.
One of my classmates is from England. He was talking the other day about how, incredibly often, people here ask him if they celebrate the 4th of July in England. Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s day of independence. It commemorates the date of a battle. More importantly, it’s just a minor regional holiday in [...]
This week, Office Depot wins the award for best deals: eMachines desktop and monitor combo. Athlon 3800, 1 GB RAM, 160GB disk, dual-layer CD/DVD-R, Vista Home Premium, and a 21.6″ LCD. Their website seems devoid of information on it, so I can’t figure out what I really want to know–the resolution on that monitor. But [...]
My Windows hard drive is a 60GB drive, and is always full-ish. With 8% free space (really good for this drive!), a defrag doesn’t get a lot accomplished. The small files are reassembled, but none of the big ones. There’s not enough room to piece together the paging file. So here’s how I, a definite [...]
I graduate in May. Here are some jobs that I’d like: Doing soundtracks for movies. Not composing music, just spotting ideal music for songs. I have a whole playlist of songs that are crying out to be part of the soundtrack to a movie. I even resisted the urge to put every Moby song I [...]
Things I care 0% about: Norman Miller: No offense to his fans, but I’ve never even heard of him. It’s sad that another human is dead, sure, but if we don’t care when the 997th child of the day dies from malaria, why do we care that Normal Miller died? The TV guild strikes. I [...]
If you’re cool like me, you spend a decent amount of time in vi editing files. Despite all the fancy IDEs and the like, nothing beats uploading your PHP script to the webserver and editing in place. I don’t profess to be a vi expert. I’m far from it, in fact. But for those that [...]
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7 Nov 2007Here are a few low-tech computer tricks I’ve started doing lately: I’ll periodically bump the wrong keys and find keyboard shortcuts that I didn’t know existed for sending an e-mail mid-sentence. It’s one thing when you’re e-mailing a friend ramblings about cheese (they may even be glad the e-mail got cut short?), but when you [...]
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4 Nov 2007A review of the Sunday comics… Dilbert: An employee needs to ask his VP a question, but is told he can’t talk directly to them. Rank: something slightly short of a smile. Opus: Too long to read. Get Fuzzy: one animal repeatedly throws rice and blasts the other in the face with an airhorn. Rank: [...]