Designs by Devin

There is nothing I can say that be remotely as funny and sarcastic as this video from The Onion.

Ok... the iPhone 3G is just way kewl. However, there are lots of reasons to NOT not be an early adopter on any technology, much less the iPhone 3G. I'm a huge Apple fan, most notably a Mac OSX fan. Any really stable, "just works" operating system based on BSD is always fine by me.

I'm a big fan on WinSCP, a SSH/SFTP client for Windows. It does everything I want it to do and more. I'm able to securely connect to a remote server via SCP, upload the latest patches to my client's websites, and then update the config files using the built-in editor to point to the new configuration. Presto! Change-O! New software is launched.

My three year experiment with a Windows Tablet PC came to a screeching halt Wednesday at the end of work when I did the unthinkable: I inadvertently dropped a Coke Zero into my machine.

The machine is dead: long live the machine.

Google unleashed a new iGoogle interface today. It looks clean; however, it also is meant for a wide-screen monitor. While they are becoming more and more popular, the standard form at most homes is by-and-large still a 4:3 aspect at 1024x768 pixels.

Today I woke up like so many other Windows XP users only to find that I had lost connectivity to the Internet... sorta.

Here in Northern Virginia we have started receiving telephone marketing messages from our local Domino's Pizza. It isn't bad enough that they felt they could violate my trusting them with my contact information, but they had the audacity to call my home phone, my cell phone and my wife's cell phone. Upon calling the manager to complain and ask to opt-out of marketing messages, the manager apologized for hitting all of our numbers.

Lou Reed, who I am big fan of his music, made a point at the SXSW premiere of the documentary Lou Reed's Berlin that, "people have got to demand a higher standard". Coverage at ZDNet. While I agree that MP3 is a crumby file format, Lou misses the point.

I've been thinking a lot about how much I hate PowerPoint lately, particularly for representing vast amounts of data. It turns out I'm not alone.

I was reading Boing Boing and ran across this: lot's of things that the high school class of 2011 has never experienced and thus I feel old. The class of 2011 never saw a Berlin Wall (unless they visited a piece of it in Rosslyn, VA or Kentuck Knob in Pennsylvania. South Africa has never suffered from Apartheid.