I’ve been all about Firefox for a couple of years now, but a new browser is catching my attention. Flock! You should check it out. It has a pretty good Newsreader, Integrated with Flickr, and runs pretty smoothly for a relatively new browser.
Blogged with Flock
I’m sitting here writing an essay that I have to use my course materials for (3 textbooks) and i’m getting extremely annoyed at having to flick through the books to find quotes I need. It’s 2007, and despite technology being incorporated into every facet of education, there is still no options to get pdf’s with your textbooks. Imagine the time it would take to use these pdfs. Search for keywords and then, BAM, everything you need is right there. None of this searching through index’s that are cryptic.
Once again, this is another form of industries being afriad to change their current business models and failing to embrace technology. Hell, even from an environmental standpoint… imagine the resources and trees you would save by having text books only be pdfs and available on their websites.
GET WITH THE TIMES… I WANT PDF’s
A couple month back I wrote about how my shuffle was finally dead. Today, it’s alive and well. Simply amazing! I was doing a big cleanup in my room, attempting to get rid of various junk before I have to start packing for my move to Ottawa July 1st. I uncovered a huge box filled with tech stuff that I can’t bring myself to throw away. I always seem to think that it might come in handy at some point down the road but it rarely does. In this box sat my ipod shuffle. I probably through it in the box after my last post. Being faced with a difficult decision, do I throw it away or mount it on my wall as the most rugged piece of hardware I’ve ever owned, I decided to plug it in one more time… for old times sake. The LED lit up and started flashing. So far so good. Then I decided to unplug it pop in my headphones and push play. Out of the headphones comes…
” You got them bruises placed upon your legs
You got them scratchmarks [around there on the edge]
I know your story
It won’t be up straight
Cuz when I’m not there
I know you can’t waitThis ain’t the first time
I caught you out again
You spend your time
With something dirty now
In a cubicle?
No fuckin lie! Most of you apple geeks probably know this but that was one of the first songs in the Ipod commercials. What are the odds. I swear, no lies! I wish someone had snapped a picture of my face at that exact moment. I would have looked like a boy on christmas morning looking at the pile gifts for the first time.
I’m so excited, I have my ipod back. I can finally save the money I was going to put towards a new one, and use it on an iphone when it drops instead. I’m estatic…
So, me and a buddy are doing a new website all on Mac tips. I know…I know… not many of you use a mac. But if you make the switch, or decide to return from the darkside… check us out at macgasm.net
So, as most you probably know by now or at least should, all of the new mac’s come with intel chips, and have for well over a year! I was an early adopter, I jumped ship from the Windows world about 2.5 years ago. I have an iBook G4. It kinda sucks, but I’ve gotten over it… for the most part, until earlier this week. I’m a geek, there is no denying it. I was trying to download a powerpc version of Ubuntu to try out on my mac. It took forever to track one down. I heard on a podcast that they were phasing out production of ppc based software. An Immediate red flag went off in my head. What would happen to me and my laptop? Will other software providers follow suit in the short term? Will I be left with a legacy product? Will I be “forced” to upgrade, and if I don’t will I be left out in the dark? It’s only a matter of time before universal binaries for software stop appearing… and intel based software takes over. I guess it’s a harsh reality, something I never thought about until this week. I’m going to have to start a funds initiative to upgrade my laptop! My financee won’t be to happy about that! Ah well, it’s a neccessity, or is it? Excuse me while I go and cry a little.
My midterms are done… thank god! It was a pretty brutal exam period for me. Some how my Anthropology exam was harder than my economics exam… and in the worldof Apex81 anything math related should be, hands down, the more difficult of tasks. Who knows, maybe the tide is turning, or maybe I should have spent more time studying for the easier exam. Although to my defence: only one question on the entire exam was based on the unit objectives and study questions… how unfair is that. Last time course objectives are supposed to be the most important concepts of the course… you know… the kind of concepts that find themselves on exams.
Now i just have like 13 assignments and 3 finals to do in the next three weeks! I can’t wait for this semester to be over. It seems like everything that can go wrong has gone wrong.
I also have two websites I need to start busting my ass off on, clients are starting to get unruly! I’m starting to get in over my head. Everything is coming to a bulk head, and I have no idea how to even start to work these things out. Two sites almost down, and two sites to go.
So, Digg.com is apparently a social news/bookmarking site. They let their users determine what the news is. The more diggs a story gets the more the likeihood is that the story will be promoted to their front page. The system was built on the concept that society will determine what is important. Up until today they could claim that it’s a user driven site. Today, all that changed. News spread like wild fire yesterday that the encryption key for hd-dvd’s had been cracked or leaked. The key would allow users to make legitimate backups of their films, and even possibly program software to play the video’s on any device that had playback capabilities… well… the MPAA shit their pants and started threatening anyone who posted the key (a series of numbers and letters, in a hex notation) with legal action. Digg has been working overtime deleteing any story that has those numbers in it. It’s starting to look like less of a social media site and a bit more like Fox News. Anyway, i’m not gonna post the hex information, but i do have a string similar to the hash for you… do what you will with it. (It may or may not be a form of the leaked key, and it may or may not be the key run through a different algorithm (a hem… Md5… a hem)… or it could be just a bunch of randomly generated numbers/letters)
377e65f53bb515b432cfd1b2ccb5906e
