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Hooray for Companies with a Conscience

A few weeks back, I found out that SendStation was giving away Firewire PocketDocks for the cost of shipping. The PocketDock is a little widget that restores functionality that Apple removed from the 3rd gen and later iPods, allowing you to use any old Firewire or USB cable (depending on which dock you get) to [...]

On purchasing an inkjet printer

Consumer-level photo printers must be one of the few pieces of technology that the internet is completely, utterly useless for researching. The main reason I don’t own an inkjer is that I’ve never been able to figure out which one is the one to buy, and in the last ten years it hasn’t gotten any [...]

Back to Linux

I finally got around to reworking my main computer this weekend, to do a fresh Windows installation, but also to install Linux. I’ve been playing around with Ubuntu Linux for a while, but the machine I had it installed on previously was an old, slow spare-parts machine. Some random thoughts from playing around with it [...]