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Technology Hates Me

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

No, seriously. It does.
I know. Any rational person would say, “But wait, Bron… wires and chips? How can they hate you? They can’t feel love or hate — they’re not out to get you.”
Lies. All lies.
A few weeks ago, I got TimeCapsule. I absolutely loved it. It took forever to run the initial back-up (160GB), [...]

It Has Been Way Too Long…

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

As I blow dust off the blog, and clear out the cobwebs, I must apologize — it has been way too long since I posted anything.
Rather than nothing going on, I’ve had the opposite problem. ScribeFire (Firefox extension for blog posting) has 10+ draft posts waiting to be finished. There have been many tech meet-ups, [...]

Books @ Work

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

On Friday, I moved to a new desk at work. After a year and a half at my old desk (we move desks a lot, normally), I have acquired a lot of toys (every office needs Star Wars action figures and Nerf guns), magazines (WIRED, Game Informer, and Portfolio), and books. Mostly too many books.
Here’s [...]

Technology Can’t Fix Everything

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

I’ve been in a bad mood this week, and have been having a hard time shaking it. Normally, when I can’t fix something myself (or I know there just has to be a better way to do what I’m trying to do), I look for a piece of software. I found Taskbar Shuffle 2.0, for [...]