I am going to be camped out on my sofa for most of next week so I gave up my title of Last American Geek Without Netflix in order to have a ton of entertainment that won’t require moving from the couch.
After joining, the first 4 movies they suggested:
Howard the Duck.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
Short [...]
I’m not sure why Google released “buzz” with a name far too similar to a similar product from Yahoo! without bothering to think it through a little better than they did. “Half Baked” is about the nicest way I can think of to describe it. Usually when Google releases a product that is far [...]
Dear HTML5 Video Element,
Wake me when you support fullscreen. Thanks.
These notes were taken as I started having trouble with Acronis True Image Home 2009 (and later ATI 2010). They were taken as the problems happened and solutions were tried, so it isn’t formatted as a nice and pretty story. It also doesn’t include new problems, like “why doesn’t consolidation actually consolidate the backups?”. I [...]
At some point around 2000/2001 I finally bought my personal domain name sirshannon.com and started playing around on it. I was already working as a web developer but was mostly working locally and on other people’s domains. Sirshannon.com has been through many incarnations but I realized early on that I would need a [...]
There were blatantly stolen from whomever wrote the DMU2 bookmarklets I use. Use them to vote Keep or Ditch on photos in The Gutter™ on Flickr. Just drag them to a spot on your browser’s toolbar, visit an image in the pool, leave a remark, then click the appropriate link. The bookmarklet [...]