I switched from Windows to Ubuntu yesterday, largely as a result of seeing hide_evr2.sys scroll by during a virus scan, and not be detected and thus not removed. This, despite scans from ClamAV, Avira, and Symantec. Hmm, not good. As my hard drive was already partitioned, with my data not on my Windows partition, it [...]
An attempt at a review, although more like my impressions, this will be, and not all in a Yoda voice. Just saw District 9…I liked it, overall. I was expecting something along the lines of Alien, since the trailer gave a hint of infection and incubation, but this film was not “horrific” in that vein. [...]
We watched Doubt, and I like, as in this film, when writers weave (or employ) a metaphoric thread — in this case, wind. A good choice, given the Catholic setting, since ‘spirit’ is wind, or breath, etymologically. Watching Meryl Streep and I wonder whether acting is perhaps the greatest art, if the actor/actress truly understands [...]
Not something a paranoiac would say, eh. I have crossed the thresh-hold (yes, hyphens are important) of social networking where once I preferred to grouse in the alley. One could well reverse this, too. But hell, since I spend so much time reading and researching online, why the hell not? (He gets excited by fire/damnation [...]
Radionomics is only my fancy portmonteau of radio and economics, of course. The following has more to do with the radio of economics than the economics of radio. Given that I’ve just tried my hand — and failed — at freely distributing podcasts via Podcast Generator, this will make perfect sense: chmod 777 does not [...]
I’ve added a plugin which allows printing, or I should say, provides a print-formatted page, for each post. (You’ll have to click on an individual post to see the print link). I imagine there are plenty of folks talking, and still and have been talking, as always, about food, and not just in the wake [...]
First, radio. I could perhaps use the term podcast, because here I mean recorded internet radio, but I’ll use radio because that is the continuity. In the car, I prefer the FM wireless version of my local NPR/classical station (funny to qualify FM as wireless now). Online, though, is where the wide wealth really abounds. [...]
Czechvar. The lager. You may have heard of it. If not, it is a Czech (check) lager which for a mass commercial product isn’t bad, if you like a pils, or pilsner, which can be a refreshing change from the heavier, hoppier Northwest ales. Czechvar had been known as Budvar, the original Czech name from [...]
I have forgotten already the password I used to create a Twitter account. D’oh! As I did not use an email address… one would think I am relatively tech-savvy, but alas. Or it’s just age creeping over me. Passwords, though, I cannot count them all, and all the online accounts I’ve used over the years, [...]
better posted to Twitter, which I am considering signing up for… hark, a change of mind? “Nobody could point to a major success from all this eavesdropping.” “Executives from Baxter, Novartis, Glaxo-Smith Kline, and Sanofi Pasteur have seats at the advisory group that on July 13th recommended mandatory H1N1 vaccination of everyone in all 194 [...]