Tag Archives: IBM

Vacation

Posted on 26 June 2009 by meta

So, I’m back from a one week vacation in Virginia. We stayed in a castle on a mountaintop in the Appalachians, near the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was a pretty amazing experience. The place was like an English stately home–except … Continue reading →

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i c

Posted on 8 May 2008 by meta

I just learned that IBM has renamed OS/400 again. It was called i5/OS last year, but this year they renamed it… i Yes, the letter ‘i’ in lower-case. IBM i. Fabulous! That’s going to be really great for searching for … Continue reading →

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Hell hath no fury like a phone company scorned

Posted on 18 November 2007 by meta

When I moved to the USA, one of the first things I did was get a cell phone. I was going to be living in a big city, rothko was working in a different part of town, we needed to … Continue reading →

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Getting a Second Life

Posted on 23 June 2007 by meta

Getting a Second Life Imagine a world where you could create literally anything you could imagine, and explore it in 3D. What would you make? If your answer was “strip malls and casinos”, I know a place you’ll love. ◊ ◊ ◊ … Continue reading →

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Whatever it takes

Posted on 9 June 2007 by meta

Friday was definitely the worst Friday ever. I wandered in to the office with my coffee, and discovered that my main work laptop—an IBM ThinkPad, obviously—had mysteriously powered itself off overnight, instead of merely going to sleep. I booted it, … Continue reading →

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Software and religion

Posted on 15 April 2007 by meta

As you have probably noticed, I’ve just gone through a major software migration for my web site. I was using typo. It was OK, but had a few problems. While its web site describes it as “lean”, that isn’t really … Continue reading →

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Keyboard

Posted on 28 February 2007 by meta

At the weekend I decided to give in and get a USB keyboard. I went to Fry’s, hoping to find something suitable, but fearing that all they’d have would be Microsoft keyboards. I know Microsoft’s hardware quality is better than … Continue reading →

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LCD DHL IBM JFS KDE USB HID

Posted on 24 February 2007 by meta

The excitement started a week or two ago when I discovered that my ThinkPad laptop’s internal cooling fan had stopped working. As soon as I did something graphically intense for more than a minute or two, the system would overheat … Continue reading →

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Pants!

Posted on 1 February 2007 by meta

Apparently Sunday was a bit of a slow news day for the Dallas/Fort Worth Star-Telegram. I have to wonder how their graphic artist reacted when asked to draw the all-important inset map. Monday was somewhat more exciting, for me at … Continue reading →

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Postscript: Hamburger Helper

Posted on 1 December 2006 by meta

Food turned out to be less of a problem than in Berlin, oddly enough. There seemed to be lots of vegetarian restaurants, and we found a vegetarische imbiss at Schantzenstrasse and Susannenstrasse. I also got the impression that people were … Continue reading →

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