Wow, Google+. Just wow. (2012/03/22)
A friend-of-a-friend, who does not use Google*, just got a threatening letter from The Goog telling her that she has four days to change her profile name to something compliant with the Google* name policy or lose access to their other services.
[read more...]Copyright and piracy (2012/03/22)
I recently happened to read an old David Pogue column in Scientific American, where he pointed out that modern copy protection schemes are punishingly hard on legitimate users, but have no effect on pirates.
[read more...]Getting git under MinGW (2012/03/05)
So, Git for Windows offers a working git under Windows – in a strange variant form of the MinGW environment that lacks all the usual creature comforts.
[read more...]Quick review: ASUS G53SX (2012/02/27)
To make a long story short, the price of playing games with my spouse is having a 15" gaming laptop. We picked the ASUS G53SX because I have been pretty happy with my older G73JH.
[read more...]Rails: How to SANELY connect to an old database (2012/02/10)
The world is full of helpful people advising that, to connect a model to another database, you just do:
[read more...]Phishing continues to succeed, banks mystified. (2012/02/07)
Canon Vixia HF S30 works fine with Mac (2012/01/28)
Attempts to research this failed, so I went to National Camera and checked it out. Yes, the S30 works fine with Mac. The dozens of badly-done fake blogs selling software to allow you to copy the stuff off it are, so far as I can tell, meaningless; it works fine.
[read more...]Guys, guys. This is stupid. (2012/01/27)
So, I wanted to add tumblr to my Android tablet.
[read more...]Law of unintended consequences (2012/01/27)
The community over on tumblr (note: my tumblr blog is even more NSFW than this one) is interesting. See. Jesse and I are, quite obviously and visibly, Very Much In Love. And our mutual friend, Luka, has adopted the role of Jesse’s kismesis, which results in hilarity as Jesse and Luka insult each other loudly and obviously.
[read more...]Google+: Getting there, but not there yet (2012/01/26)
Much-lauded announcements that Google+ allows pseudonyms turn out to mean that you can maybe get one through a procedure which doesn’t exist by filling out a nonexistent application.
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