Archives for January 2010

The more complicated things get…

First off, don’t get me wrong: I love my new Alienware laptop. It rocks in so many ways I haven’t found them all yet. Still, some things are just too damned fancy in my godlike opinion. For instance? Instead of clicky-button controls for things like volume control, CD ejection, media control (what? your laptop doesn’t [...]

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Peremptory re-booting

I can’t be the only person who gets annoyed by Microsoft’s insistence on re-booting my machine without asking first. Who the hell do they think they are? I gave permission to install updates autonomously, but why does that include a re-boot? The proper procedure is to install the updates, then provide notice that a re-boot [...]

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HTML 5 or XHTML 2?

Why don’t, instead of working feverishly on competing standards, these web geek gurus get together and come up with a single one that offers the best of both? Can anyone say ego issues? The graphics display features in HTML 5 are attractive to a graphics geek like moi, but I have to pause: will HTML [...]

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Rippin’ on FOX

Like many people in this country whose mindset isn’t somewhere to the right of Adolph Hitler (Godwin alert!), when FAUX Noise comes to my attention I greet it with a mixture of exasperation and sadness (for the dupes who believe their shtick). Words usually don’t fail me, but I’ve never really had the inspiration to [...]

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Getting artistic on your ass

So, one of my favorite time-wasters (especially when golf is out of season) is making “digital art.” I work in 3D and 2D, and use a boat load of different applications to get the effects I want. You might have seen my gallery of past work linked on the left, there, but I really haven’t [...]

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Okay, guess you just have to laugh

The whole Tiger debacle has been what it is. Some people are upset, some pretend they knew it all along, some don’t give a rat’s ass, and some decide to make a funny. That’s what the fine folks over at My Dog Ate My Blog did when they posted Wood’s Wood Warrants 8 New Campaigns! [...]

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