Category Archives: Computers

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Ubuntu Unity — Worst GUI Evar?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by epthnation

There’s only one thing that can get me blogging again, and that’s an opportunity to rant on a terrible distribution of Ubuntu.  And boy howdy, is Ubuntu 11.04 bad.  I suppose we should have seen this coming; I mean, this … Continue reading →

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Why I, Of All People, Got An iPhone

Posted on November 14, 2010 by epthnation

After three fine years of service, my Blackberry Curve 8310 finally kicked the bucket. I had to physically push the charger plug into the phone and sit there holding it, otherwise it wouldn’t charge.  Obviously, not even a person with … Continue reading →

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A Small Portion of the Copyright Post I Always Told Myself I’d Write

Posted on March 1, 2010 by epthnation

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m confused by copyright in the US right now.  I’m a child of the 80′s — an era where magnetic tapes time-shifted anything and everything, from song mixes for would-be lovers to Thursday night’s … Continue reading →

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A Little Rant About The Job Situation

Posted on January 20, 2010 by epthnation

I’ve been looking for jobs for a long time now, a process I’m just terrible at.  It involves wasting copious amounts of time on dead ends and red herrings.  It puts me in uncomfortable situations.  It forces me to spend … Continue reading →

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Twitter: What Does This Mean?

Posted on October 7, 2009 by epthnation

You hear it all the time out there in the world of ever-opining media:  Twitter this, twitter that, it’s revolutionary, it’s sucky, it’ll be gone in two years, it’ll last forever like KISS, etc.  Nobody really knows what to make … Continue reading →

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Funny Things Week: Know Your Meme

Posted on September 10, 2009 by epthnation

We continue this week of stuff that makes me laugh with knowyourmeme.com, the internet repository of knowledge about itself.  Did you ever see a term on the internet that made you scratch your head?  Did you ever wonder where videos … Continue reading →

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Funny Things Week: Microsoft Fune

Posted on September 7, 2009 by epthnation

I found this funny:

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Tweeting Too Hard

Posted on May 24, 2009 by epthnation

Now this is a good idea — cataloging (catalogueing?) self-important tweets and re-tweeing them for purposes of mockery.  I present to you: tweetingtoohard.com There’s lots of fun stuff there, to be sure.  The site doesn’t seem to recognize when people … Continue reading →

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Driving From Dallas To Milwaukee

Posted on April 30, 2009 by epthnation

I’ll be live twittering my trip from Dallas to Milwaukee tomorrow.  I’m driving because I have to cart some stuff back from the soon-to-be-sold parents’ house.  This would seem to be what twitter is made for, and since my phone … Continue reading →

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I Now Think in Twitter Tweets

Posted on April 20, 2009 by epthnation

Here’s the funny thing:  I was resistant to the whole idea of Twitter at first, as I think everybody is.  It’s like facebook without anything but status updates, and those updates are limited to 140 characters.  But in its simplicity … Continue reading →

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