Technology
The WorldWide Telescope sounds pretty cool to me.
I can make ringtones from songs on my favorite Carcass album?? Why am I even writing this and not making totally boss ringtones???
Since SuperDuper! is now Leopard compatible, I finally took the OS upgrade plunge. Now, I think my favorite new game to play is the “guess the picture” as it is being generated from other, smaller pictures in the mosaic screen saver.
I’m a tiny bit excited by the LowKey Stand.
Thanks to alert IM buddy Young, I am downloading Google Earth onto my virgin machine. GOOGLE STARS! Not since Stellarium have I been so nerdly excited about watching the sky from my computer. Nice overview here.
First I thought the w880i would come out in time, then thought the tiny Pantech would be the right one, then the Blackjack. Now I’m fairly certain that the Nokia N75 will treat me right.
I don’t know why I never took the time to really learn how to use Google Earth to its fullest potential. Sure, I’ll click around and zoom in, but I always get confounded by the features. That’s no behavior for a newly turned 34 year old.
This seemed like a personal victory at the time, though I could never remember the specifics about SATA or that nonsense involving ribbon cables and types of hard drives. This lack of knowledge would later have horrific results when I took a short-lived job as a sys admin and had to fire myself. Holy shit: [...]