Category Archives: Technology

Why I’m giving Facebook another chance.

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If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you've seen me flood the pipes with multiple status updates about how unhappy I am with FB's latest round of privacy and API changes. In case you don't, allow me to summarize:   I find Facebook to be irresponsible with my personal data. The unbelievably popular website started off just a few years back as a service that only showed your data to people you affirmatively declared to be your friend. As can be seen by visiting the EFF's page, over the Read more [...]

Outraged about your cable bill? Not yet you aren’t.

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I’ve got thirteen channels of sh*t  on the TV to choose from. -‘Nobody Home’ by Pink Floyd The above quote is so archaic at this point in time that you want to tousle its hair and tell it how adorable it is. Have you looked at how many channels you have access to recently? The descriptor is still fairly accurate, though it’s through the eyes of the beholder. There are just way too many channels that I will never watch, and I’d love to not have to pay for them. Sports would Read more [...]

Dear Apple, it’s not you…it’s me.

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I’m done with iTunes and iPods and iWhatever. Last night, courtesy of the fine folks at Amazon.com’s shipping department, I received a 16GB microsd card for my Nexus One phone. I’ve been really looking forward to moving the rest of my mobile experience to the Android platform, which has really become an integral part of my life over the past couple of months. I use it for virtually everything now, and I’ve finally discovered what people must mean when they talk about a smart phone. Google Read more [...]

Why I chose my Blackberry over the Android.

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Let me start this by saying up front that I have used an iPhone for about 10 minutes, and that was to send someone's pictures to a website for them. So, I'm not going to get into how great it is. I do own an iPod Touch, and I will state for the record that I think its interface is top notch. I've heard from a number of sources, however, that email is problematic on the iPhone, though supposedly the iPhone 3g corrects a lot of the perceived problems. Since I've never owned one, I don't really feel Read more [...]

Tragedy strikes the khaosx global HQ data center.

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Pictured right is the screen I ran into on my system this morning after a couple of strange reboots and errors. "Odd", thought I. Since I've just gone through a case migration, so I ran through the usual checks - cable secured, proper port, etc. Vista rolled through a consistency check, and "sorted" a bunch of files (which is never good), and we wound up here after the reboot. Well crap. This is just not good. What you're seeing in that screenshot is the Intel RAID manager Read more [...]