What contributes to me being a pretty good tester is that I have a knack for taking things apart, exploring the edges of a system, and breaking things.
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Category Archives: Consuming
On The Edge
September 13, 2007 – 9:32 am
“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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“Support them well”
September 6, 2007 – 3:49 pm
The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of useful and satisfying service from them even as newer models are introduced.
Writes Steve Jobs in To all iPhone customers.
Two words, “replaceable battery“
What do the numbers at the bottom of a Canadian cheque mean?
September 5, 2007 – 1:20 pm
My TD Canada Trust cheque looks like:
*NNN* *TTTTT*YYY* BBBB*AAAAAAA*
NNN = Cheque #
TTTTT = Transit #
YYY = Instituition
BBBB AAAAAAA = is the account #
What can be a little confusing about these numbers is that BBBB in the account # is probably the branch, but sometimes the transit # is referred to the branch. The BBBB may [...]
Given the Filename, Finding the Flickr Photo, photo.gne
August 1, 2007 – 10:11 am
Given a link like http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/39727523_af63f401a8.jpg, you can get to the photo on Flickr at
http://flickr.com/photo.gne?id=39727523 .
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Silkroad Online, “Optimized under below condition”
July 31, 2007 – 9:40 pm
My friend Brian Keeler mentioned that he has been playing a little bit of a video game called Silkroad. So I went to the game’s web site to find out what it is about. If I clicked any of the links on the page, the screen was replaced by:
[logo]
Web page of Silkroad Online is optimized [...]
Ann Coulter on my Blog!
July 18, 2007 – 10:59 am
If you are a friend of mine and you use Google Adsense on your blog, you probably want to add humanevents.com to “Competitive Ad Filter”.
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If you want to seem insincere…
July 1, 2007 – 8:12 pm
“advertising is a very democratic and effective way to participate in a public dialogue”
Or is it? Aren’t we all advertising what causes are important to us? So it is how we advertise, not that we advertise.
Windows Vista Working edition?
June 14, 2007 – 9:08 pm
In frustration I clicked on Windows Anytime Upgrade hoping that I could pay for an upgrade to Windows Vista Working edition. Red sweater guy, are you mocking me??
“Hot sexy photos†Surprises!
June 13, 2007 – 9:29 pm
I have been very pleasantly surprised by the strange result of all the people “reading” my post “Sexy Picturesâ€, “Hot Photos†when I first noticed I added ads. As I result I will get a first check from Google Adsense next month for over $100 to donate to charity!
I previously noticed a small influx [...]