So, the Comcast folks took the RCA/Thomson DCM 315 cable modem and left me with a Scientific Atlanta WebSTAR DPC 2100. When it works, it works great. But I’ve had to reboot the thing four or five times in two days. It just stops working, forgets is IP address, and leaves me connection-less until [...]
My cable modem started acting funny Saturday. I tried all the usual stuff. Rebooting wouldn’t fix it. Sometimes it wouldn’t even finish it’s startup sequence. When I got any connectivity at all, it was at a snail’s pace, and I was dropping packets like crazy. I didn’t realize quite how addicted I had become to [...]
A tasty little review of a popular business motivation book (that I haven’t read), sure to brighten your day.
Jeffrey Veen points out that the allmusic.com content can be surfed far more easily through the newly redesigned mp3.com. That might help for the time being. Even better would be to beef up the music pages at wikipedia.
The beloved music site, allmusic.com (which is to music what imdb.com is to movies), started a storm of controversy yesterday when their new design greeted users of every browser other than IE for Windows with warning messages questioning their browser choice. Many emailed in response, suggesting (rightly) that the problem was with a site design [...]
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I spent some time today learning some new tricks for linking to PDFs. Here are a few, using the works cited pages of my thesis as an example.
You can link to specific pages in the PDF, even if it lacks internal bookmarks: 1, 2, 3. You can set the zoom factor: 300%, 100, 50. You [...]
Our friend Tim shares a story of his recent heart attack. He’s 32, btw.
Alien in 30 seconds (w/ bunnies).
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