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Yearly Archives: 2010
Remember, and Let Go: Thoughts on the Lost Finale
Lost finally ended on Monday morning UK time. What a ride. It left me satisfied in a way and unsatisfied and curious in others — very fitting for such a structurally mysterious show. My only complaint would be that the … Continue reading
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Why Lost Matters
Slate: It’s easy to hate on Lost—the sometimes silly twists and turns, the millimeter-deep characters, the ever-increasing suspicion that the writers entered this tale with no exit strategy in mind. But show a little respect for a program that serves … Continue reading
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Ubuntu 10.04
I’ve been using Ubuntu 10.04 for the last few days and I have to say, it’s very good and very deserving of the “LTS” moniker. No major issues like the ones I encountered with 9.04 so far. One minor nit: … Continue reading
Smokey escaping from the island
Er, Iceland. Click the image for a larger version. The original image is from this story in the Independent. Here’s an original image from Lost to compare with. Can’t believe there hasn’t been more Eyjafjallajökull/Island/Smokey snark like this one from … Continue reading
Apple's Control Issues
Section 3.3.1 of the new iPhone OS 4 preview SDK caused quite a firestorm on the interwebs. It tells developers exactly which tools they may use to develop apps for the app store. Apple must have known it would raise … Continue reading
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Looking Forward to Lost's Series Finale
A good TV show begins well, but a great TV show must end well. With a bang, not a whimper. Many critically acclaimed shows would have a tough time with that definition. For example, Battlestar Galactica was a wildly uneven … Continue reading
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Smart (curly) Quotes in MSN / Windows Live Messenger
Undocumented MSN / Windows Live Messenger “feature”: Shift+Ctrl+” (Shift+Ctrl+Quotation Mark) toggles smart or curly quotes in the Conversation Window. Unfortunately, not only does this completely undocumented keystroke not give any feedback to the user (and it’s easy to press this … Continue reading
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Out of Process Plugins in Firefox trunk
Out-of-process plugins (from the Electrolysis project) have landed in the Firefox trunk. This means: no more Flash crashes. Yay! The trunk also has support for hardware-accelerated graphics and text.
Tab Docking in Google Chrome
Almost everyone knows you can tear off and re-join tabs in Chrome, but it also supports powerful docking features that are quite useful, especially on Windows XP and Vista (which lacks the window manager refinements of Windows 7). The most … Continue reading