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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes

January 31, 2008 – 12:44 pm

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes. It is a great interview!
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By Lloyd | Also posted in Web | Tagged 60 Minutes, All Things D, Ari Steinberg, Beacon, CBS, Danny Sullivan, Dave Mcclure, Facebook, Kara Swisher, Lesley Stahl, Mark Zuckerberg, Open Source, social networking, The Wall Street Journal, video | Comments (0)

The $475 you gave to foolswisdom.com

January 26, 2008 – 12:14 pm

As it says on the About page any money made by me on foolswisdom.com is donated to registered humanitarian charities.
The term “fundraising” in Toni’s article title “Automattic fundraising” reminded me that it was time to donate the money you gave by clicking on the ads here in 2007.
In 2007 that was $475 USD from Google [...]

By Lloyd | Also posted in Personal, Web | Tagged Canadian Cancer Society, charity, Esquimalt High, foolswisdom.com, fundraising, Google Adsense, Great Lake Walk, Jeff Steinbok, Ken Henderson, Mexico, Microserf, microsoft, Nicole Steinbok, playground construction, Sami Barker, San Pancho, school supplies, Toni Schneider | Comments (5)

2luo.com YouTube Phishing? I Hope Not

January 18, 2008 – 6:01 pm

I just noticed that I tried to login with my YouTube account information at www.2luo.com . I hope it isn’t a phishing or other form of malicious site, but to be safe I changed my password there and on sites where I used a related pattern.
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By Lloyd | Also posted in Web | Tagged 2luo.com, Distraction, Firefox, google, Google Web Search, Human Error, Human Reliability, Internet, passwords, phishing, PhishTank, Resilience, Software, Vigilance, Web, YouTube | Comments (5)

YouTube Embed Not In Bed With Web Standards

January 15, 2008 – 4:51 pm

I’ve long known that YouTube embeds aren’t XHMTL because, ironically, embed isn’t valid XHTML. I knew there must be an easy solution, object, but I never made the time to figure it out.
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By Lloyd | Also posted in Web | Tagged Aidas Bendoraitis, Bernie Zimmermann, Drew McLellan, google, W3C Markup Validator, Web Standards, WordPress.com, XHTML, YouTube | Comments (3)

Apple is the Leader in Consumer Computing!

January 15, 2008 – 11:50 am

Jason Chen, “To recap on what [Steve Jobs] talked about today.”

Time Capsule, the wireless backup utility.
iPhone update and iPod Touch update.
AppleTV + iTunes movie rentals.
MacBook Air.

January 16th update: here is The Steve Jobs 90 Minute Keynote (in 60 Seconds):

By Lloyd | Tagged Apple, Apple Time Capsule, Apple Time Machine, AppleTV, backup, Gizmodo, Gizmodo Live, iTunes, Jason Chen, live.gizmodo.com, MacBook Air, Macworld, Macworld 2008, recovery, Steve Jobs, WordPress.com | Comments (5)

Walt Mossberg Wrote the Safe Article About Ubuntu, “I still advise mainstream, nontechnical users to avoid Linux”

September 13, 2007 – 10:27 pm

Walt Mossberg, you are one of my favorite technology reporters, and so I’m particularly disappointed by your article
“Linux’s Free System Is Now Easier to Use, But Not for Everyone“.
My first disappointment is the timing of the article. September 27th Ubuntu will have a beta release of their next version with Ubuntu 7.10 scheduled for release [...]

By Lloyd | Also posted in Linux, PC, Ubuntu | Tagged Consuming, Dell Dimension E520, Linux, Mac OS X, MacOS, microsoft windows, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Linux, windows vista | Comments (47)

WAMP For WordPress

September 12, 2007 – 8:48 am

Yes, that was the sound of me hitting my head as I tried to setup a WordPress development environment on Windows Vista in the absence of my now restored Ubuntu running ThinkPad.
It is also the acronym for the stack of software that WordPress runs on where the W is for Windows not WordPress. Windows
Apache
MySQL
PHP
Wow, there [...]

By Lloyd | Also posted in Web, WordPress | Tagged Web Development, Web Development on Windows, windows vista, xampp | Comments (10)

“Fan error” Blown Away

September 6, 2007 – 10:15 pm

I’m writing this email on my purring ThinkPad T42p with its new fan. Yes!
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By Lloyd | Also posted in Consuming, PC | Tagged burning plastic, fan, ibm, laptop, lenovo, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu, windows | Comments (48)

“Fan error”

August 31, 2007 – 4:50 pm

My ThinkPad t42p is less than two years old, and today it became a paper weight — I hope temporarily.
Thursday Update: Yes, it seems that it was temporary!
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By Lloyd | Also posted in PC, Victoria | Tagged burning plastic, fan, ibm, laptop, lenovo, Linux, microsoft windows, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu, windows | Comments (17)

Users, Customers, Members

August 25, 2007 – 1:35 pm

I dislike being called a “user” almost as much as I dislike being called a “consumer”.
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By Lloyd | Also posted in Community | Comments (7)