My least read post is one of my favorite that I have written thus far. I take full responsibility for its low readership numbers. After all, I’m the one who gave it the off-putting title: How I Became a Hacker (and How You Can Become One Too). The term hacker has a lot of technical …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
The scars of childhood
I seem to have some kind of subconscious focus on childhood this week, so I thought I would round it out with a question I have been been noodling on this week. Over a year ago, one of my nieceletts slipped on marble stairs and ended up with a gash in her forehead. Her parents …
Mood Music
One of many things I gave up when I moved myself on to Linux was Spotify. Of all the music streaming options (last.fm, Mog, etc.) Spotify emerged as my favorite. Was it flawed? Yes. But, nothing is perfect. I missed my music so I started poking around to see what else is out there. That …
Yes, indeed, I care*
I love children’s books. I loved them as a child and I love them now. I find them to be a great source of comfort and inspiration. My 2 favorite authors, hands down are Daniel Manus Pinkwater and Maurice Sendak. This morning when, I read that Maurice Sendak had died, I felt that same sense of …
How I Became a Hacker (and How You Can Become One Too)
Until relatively recently (the past few years), I was too uncertain of my skills to do much of anything for myself. I felt trapped by my own ineptitude. I wouldn’t move a piece of furniture, lest it be a wrong move. I tolerated bad designs, kept all the default setting on my computers and …
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Inspiration by Peter Pan
Yesterday morning I rooted a Barnes and Noble Color Nook so I could load Cyanogenmod and turn it into an Android tablet. As per my previous experiences, the actual rooting and installation went very smoothly. But that is not to say that I didn’t hit any snags. In fact, an installation process that should have …
Do you really want a smartphone?
I was bored in the waiting room at my doctor’s office a week or so ago so I decided to have a look around. In addition to some seriously outdated magazines (there were a couple of People’s from last century) I saw almost everyone fiddling with their smartphones. It brought to mind an episode from …
Why Does Everything Need to be so Hard?
On Wednesday, I helped a client figure out how to get the scanner from her wireless multi-function printer to send scanned images to her laptop. After trying all of the easy options, I went online to get the user manual. The thing had 3 manuals. Three! For a multi-function printer. There was the User’s Manual, …
My New Laptop: Day 4
As I anticipated, I am feeling increasingly comfortable with my new laptop. My fingers still occasionally hit the wrong keys and I am relying heavily on my trackpad while I learn a whole new set of keyboard commands. My remaining issues are with application compatibility. re I decided on a Linux laptop, I had done …
Why I broke up with Apple
I have been an apple devotee since I got my very first Mac Classic loaner in college. The very first computer I bought for myself was a Mac LCII. In fact, I still have it, I just can’t bring myself to get rid of it. Like many of us, I assumed that I would get …