My life with dialysis and kidney disease
tech
Do the Right Thing – No, this is not a Spike Lee Joint
Jun 23rd
Stolen Sidekick is an Internet Hit
About three weeks ago a Motorola Sidekick was left in an NYC cab.
I’m sure this happens all the time. I’m sure that sometimes, someone with character makes an effort to return the phone. Most times however, I’m sure that the person who finds it considers it their lucky day, and just keeps it.
Unfortunately for the “Corona Crew”, the phone they stole belonged to someone with a bit of tech savvy. Within hours drama ensued with thousands of hits generated between the story being dug, and being anointed by Slashdot.
So some of us have been following the drama – and finally it comes to a conclusion. The phone has been returned, and the correct people have been punished.
Awesome
Why do people feel that they have the right to other people’s property? This entitlement attitude always baffles me. The idea that if someone left something somewhere, it somehow no longer belongs to them, and it is fair game.
With this logic, shouldn’t burglary be legal as long as the residents aren’t at home and currently handling the property?
What really baffles me with all of this though, is why people have sidekicks in the first place?
Geek Love
Jun 7th
For those of you who grew up geek, and didn’t just become one when it became cool in the last few years, you know that the words “geek” and “love” seldom wind up together.
Heck, most of us became geeks because we were afraid of love to begin with.
As I write this I’m listening to Alphaville “Forever Young” - which says a lot
Back to the point of this post:
If you are fortunate enough to be one of the few geeks who found either a) another geek to love you or b) a sane person who actually fell in love with you anyway – one of you needs this:
Go Geek Love
Luxor
Apr 21st
Ahhh yes, the Luxor.
No, not this place
I’m talking about a game at msn that will drive you absolutely bonkers.
From the first level you will hopelessly addicted, and unable to control yourself. Anna currently has the record at level 4-4, please let us know if you get that far (I’m struggling right now at 3-4). Go play it – enjoy yourself a little bit
McGinnis Prize For Friends
Mar 29th
I just saw on a friend’s blog that he successfully “pitched” the outfoxed business plan last week, winning the McGinnis Prize.
If you’re not familiar, you need to be – first download firefox, and then download outfoxed as your first extension. Outfoxed is a project designed by an old (but good) friend Stan James, and is a peer networking extension for firefox, allowing friends to recommend content to each other, effectively weeding out a lof of the useless content found online.
Great … again I’m getting into talking about something fun and worthwhile and I’m done with treatment. Why is it that I only think of something to talk about at the end of treatment?
Anyway, more Friday (I hope)
*beep beep beep*
WordPress, Typepad, or Drupal
Mar 29th
So I’m finding significant limitations with the blogger.com service. First and foremost is that the IT Goons from DaVita block lots of traffic – including my access to blogger.com. This means that I can’t login to post to my blog, and limits me to sending posts in via email.
So what?
Well, I like to put images in my posts, and can’t when I’m posting from dialysis.
This stinks ….
So I’m trying to find something that is full of features, can be run server-side, and is in all other ways awesome.
Jake Braly mentioned drupal, and I’m pretty much hooked on it. It would allow me to house forums, the blog, the web site, and everything else I might want to do, in one easy to configure option.
One appealing thing about something like WordPress is that it seems simpler in its scope, and therefore might be within my ability to use properly.
Both drupal and WordPress are open source, and we all know how cool that is.
Any recommendations from any of you, my loyal readers? Nobody’s really using the forums, so one option is to due away with them until new ones can be created in drupal. First and foremost though is for me to find a new way to blog.
Any suggestions would be great – remember, I’m behind an evil websense-equivalent firewall, and would prefer to access something on my own server rather than theirs.
