because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Dec 28th, 2009
I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. I appreciate seeing what the people I know are up to, but I dislike all the quizzes and games and their associated chatter. Turns out it is possible to get status updates, notifications, notes and links via RSS feed. Naturally, since Facebook wants to your share your stuff [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Dec 10th, 2009
At work I now have four computers and five screens, all controlled from one keyboard and mouse. Here’s how I did it. Hardware The primary machine at work is a Mac Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.2 with 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors, and 4 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 RAM. This [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Dec 9th, 2009
Four years ago, on December 5th, 2005, I installed Mint on my domain host and started accurately tracking visits to my site. This morning at about 7:30 am the 50,000th page was served to the 26,620th unique visitor. Obviously my little personal site is way out on the power curve of the World Wide Web, [...]