So blah bitty blah blah, I wanted to see what celebrities I look like and MyHeritage has a nifty little tool for this. In a move about which I am none to pleased, the require you to register in order to see your look alikes. As I mentioned previously, I have an email [...]
I recently installed Flock on my Ubuntu box and have run into more problems than I would care to. First and foremost, it is a pain to install, requiring you to work from the command line. N ow I am no stranger to bash, but I generally do not use it in Ubuntu [...]
Michael Arrington has a post today at TechCrunch on how Mozilla is integrating social networking into Firefox and how it is bad news for Flock. Being a die hard fan of Flock, this raised some concerns for me. However, looking at the new Coop product, I think that it misses the mark for [...]
I discovered a bit spare irony in my life today. I maintain a number of email addresses that I use fairly arbitrarily. I do however have one that is a spam address that I use when signing up for things online and I am not entirely certain that the purveyor will not be [...]
By Kit | February 28, 2007
I had a scary realization recently: I stink as a blogger. I reek at it to be frank. I don’t do it as often as I should and the content has turned to fluff. Just look at this main page. Not much substance. It is not a lack on [...]
By Kit | November 29, 2006
There is a great article at Black and White, Birmingham’s City Paper about the practice of stores stopping you when a security device is triggered upon your departure from the store or they ask to review your receipt prior to your departure. Essentially what it boils down to is the fact that assuming you [...]
By Kit | November 16, 2006
One day when returning from class on my bicycle at Indiana University I got flagged down by a campus police officer. Being in a pack of other bicycles, I figured that there was nothing wrong and that he just had a quick question. He then asked for my ID and indicated that I [...]
By Kit | November 15, 2006
Following UMGs example, Bank of America has decided that when in doubt you should treat your customers as criminals rather than acknowledging that the majority of people are not law breakers and that they should not be treated as such. Boing Boing has the full story, but here is the jist of it…
Guy sells [...]
By Kit | November 13, 2006
In a tremendous showing of outreach the CEO and Chairman of Universal Music Group, Doug Morris said “”These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it, So it’s time to get paid for it.” In reference to portable audio devices like the iPod and Microsoft Zune. Microsoft has folded [...]
By Kit | November 10, 2006
43Folders is featuring a series of conversations between Merlin Mann and Getting Things Done author David Allen. The first podcast in the series focuses on procrastination which is something that I struggle with quite a bit (who doesn’t). Allen suggests really working on the first action portion of GTD such that tasks become [...]
