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Monthly Archives: August 2006

pdf performance torture test, New York style

08-Aug-06

It turns out that if the evince or maemo pdf reader teams want a good performance torture test, I can strongly recommend the MTA’s all-in-one NYC Subway map. Completely, unusably slow on the maemo, unfortunately; merely painful on evince. On the plus side, even acrobat takes its time to render it, so it isn’t an [...]

oh great laptop gurus

07-Aug-06

Oh great laptop gurus… is there any Lenovo T-series or combination of T-series that isn’t in some way evil unsupportable (ATI, atheros, etc.?) I was about to get Krissa a five pound apple when I remembered there was  a five pound Lenovo that I’ve heard does not set people’s laps on fire or make the [...]

Settling in in the city (D-7 day for classes)

06-Aug-06

Krissa and I are slowly settling in. She posted a bit about it herself, particularly about going to the green market up the street on Thursday. I went with her this morning- it was small but nice.

Yummy stuff from Beth’s Kitchen.

Krissa and some boxes.

More yummy bits.

Maybe I won’t miss Cambridge Common after all.

variety of weirdo links while I wait for dinner

02-Aug-06

Dude, Miggie! No need to wait for rails on the desktop- JFDI! You’re almost uniquely positioned to take the lead in doing it, and beat MS at their own game.
The last conversation I had at Berkman before moving was about the advance of open standards, with email killing the walled gardens of AOLmail almost the [...]

Cliche Alert

01-Aug-06

I want to wake up in a city that doesn’t sleep…
Woke up in New York this morning, but too asleep to take advantage of the sun off the Empire State. Oh well. Anyone subscribed to my gallery RSS feed will be getting a crapload of cliched NYC photos in the next few days, I’m afraid.
Nothing [...]