Just Like (a) Human

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Okay, so I’m on my USB stick at the library, looking for a good way to have at the internets in Firefox, without being so conspicuous.
I found an extension called Split Pannel [sic], which basically lets me open something in a frame of its own, side by side with what I’ve got going right now.
So, [...]

(With credit to GigaOm.)
I was checking my news reader this evening, since I decided to not go back to the shelter immediately after work. I came across one header in my reader that caught my eye, and caused me to frown for a good few minutes, simply because I’m not sure how to react. The [...]

Okay! Zookoda has granted me broadcast permissions, so I can now officially run that mailing list.
Right now, the confirmation pages are generic, because I don’t have a minute to actually put together a real page here on my site, so forgive me for that. However, it is a subscription based mailing list, that you must [...]

A couple of days ago, I decided that I needed a way to offer a subscription to my blog’s content for the non-RSS, non-LiveJournal crowd.
I had heard mention of an email marketing tool called Zookoda, which is a free tool that hails from the Great Down Under (that being, Australia). It’s an interesting tool that [...]

In my homeless state, I have to either download things to each computer I sit at here in the public library (horribly inefficient — computers return to the exact state they were in when they configured them, so my downloads of Foobar2000, Firefox, and a few other used applications disappear at the end of my [...]

I’m giving myself three minutes to vent on things.
This session, it’s about code.
We’re in the AJAX and XHTML age.
Please spend a little more time on going through your code, to make sure it can pass through a validator.
Missing one or two things, but generally getting the rest right is to be expected, and doesn’t bother [...]

So, I’ve run Project Wonderful’s ad boxes for a couple of months now.
I went to look at my balance, and I see that I’ve earned fifty cents.
I’m not displeased whatsoever by this, simply because I have been host to some ads for products I would buy (if I had money), and to a couple of [...]