Archive for November, 2007

EP134: Me and My Shadow

Posted by Mark | Filed under Reviews

With­out ques­tion, Me and My Shadow the best episode of Escape Pod I’ve lis­tened to in quite some time. It’s got just the per­fect amount of creepi­ness to suck me into the story, rather than send­ing me run­ning for cover. Addi­tion­ally the level of tech seems entirely believ­able in that we could the­o­ret­i­cally be doing […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 30, 2007

Miranda IM

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software

At my office we are required to be on an IM client for the entire work day. This is partly due to the com­pany hav­ing mul­ti­ple offices and partly due to some peo­ple work­ing from home. In any case I did not much care for the client they had installed for me (Tril­lian Basic 31) […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 21, 2007

Text-Link-Ads Updated

Posted by Mark | Filed under Web Design, WordPress

Text-Link-Ads is a nice ser­vice which I use to help pay the bills for run­ning this site. They just released a new ver­sion of their Word­Press plu­gin which I use to put their adverts on this site, so I installed it but in doing so it over­wrote a cou­ple of changes I’d made to the […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 15, 2007

How We Roll

Posted by Mark | Filed under QotD, Quickie

“Why are you peo­ple so weird about your dice?” Anne said. “That’s just how we roll,” I said. Taken from WWdN: In Exile: that’s just how i roll by Wil Wheaton.

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Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 9, 2007

Random Thoughts

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I’ve been bad about post­ing any­thing here, so here’s a col­lec­tion of ran­dom thoughts that have occurred to me since my last post­ing. For sev­eral years I car­ried a PDA to keep track of appoint­ments, jot down notes and to have impor­tant phone numbers/addresses handy. I started off with a Hand­spring Visor Plat­inum, later switched […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 1, 2007