Daily Archives: October 18, 2008

The inability to whistle

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Jeff

It seemed so sim­ple, at the time. Let’s hop into the way­back machine and go back to just before Hal­loween, 2007. I was in a funk, for sev­eral rea­sons. Part of it, I’m cha­grined to say, was about a girl. Part of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Google Android kill switch no big deal?

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Jeff

As you may have heard, Google has a “kill switch” fea­ture in Android that allows them to remotely remove soft­ware they deem mali­cious from Android-​based cell phones. While some poten­tial end users are up in arms about this fea­ture, the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Blasts from the past

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Jeff

Read­ers of the old blog will notice a few reruns today. I found the Win­dows Live Writer posts on my desk­top hard drive and decided to repost the ones that were still rel­e­vant. If you’ve seen them before, sorry for the redundancy.

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So what makes you think they’re gonna drill?

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Jeff

The cur­rent debate about whether or not to allow off­shore drilling misses some cru­cial facts. We have no guar­an­tee they’re going to drill at all. It’s in the best inter­ests of the oil com­pa­nies to keep demand high and sup­ply low … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Basic black

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Jeff

It’s been a while since I’ve posted what I’ve got on my Treo’s Today screen, so here it is. I’ve gone with a very basic look here, but one that works sur­pris­ingly well while at the same time pro­vid­ing a slick, mod­ern look. The … Con­tinue read­ing →

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