technology
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Desktop Vanitas (aka Memento Mori)
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Vanitas are closely related to memento mori still lifes which are artworks that remind the viewer of the shortnes and fragility of life (memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember you must die’) and include symbols such as skulls and extinguished candles. However vanitas still-lifes also include other symbols such as musical instruments, wine…
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Signal, The Private Messaging App
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So I’m finally giving the Signal messaging app a try. It’s the same messaging app that Edward Snowden uses because it’s currently the most secure platform there is. Signal messages and calls are always end-to-end encrypted and painstakingly engineered to keep your communication safe. We can’t read your messages or see your calls, and no…
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Jason Kottke on fingerprint technology: So much about us is stored in the cloud (our finances, our communication, our social lives) that we can’t turn back. The only way to protect what you’ve shared so far is to share some more. Protect your data with a password. Protect the password with some secret, personal…
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House of Flying Laptops
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Obama meets with tech business leaders
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President Obama was here in the Bay Area having dinner last night with some important people. It must be pretty awesome to be there taking these pictures. Check out a Q&A session with Pete Souza, official White House photographer. Anyone recognize the people at dinner with the President?
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Twitter Local
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Twitter Local lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area. I wonder who’s tweeting around me. #
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HKUST
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The ipod flea
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A hilarious Apple ad spoof for something called the iPod Flea.
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Live Spell Checker for WordPress
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I just installed an Live Spell Checker that uses a relatively new technology called AJAX.
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Going to the dogs
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You know what perturbs me? Working for other people…
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Yahoo to buy photo-sharing site Flickr
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Yahoo to buy photo-sharing site Flickr
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For Microsoft haters
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For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, “If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would…
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Computer fun
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I just filed my taxes for the first time electronically. It sure beats doing it by hand! Oh how I love technology. Yeah yeah, I know people are probably thinking, man, it’s about time! I’ve been doing that for the past couple years! Ok ok, at least I’m here now. Check out this helicopter game.…
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I understand now that I’ve
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I understand now that I’ve been spoiled by the luxuries of technology. Cell phones, cable, and dsl. Now, I feel as though I’ve had a part of me amputated — I have no internet access. Alas, things are back to the way they were TEN YEARS ago… it will be a struggle to do my…
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Happy Birthdays to Kent and
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Happy Birthdays to Kent and Jerry. I’ve always wanted to learn how to breakdance. You know those books in the Bible: Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians? I think I’ve just found my new favorite way to remember them…(ok, this is only for those Toisan people out there)…GEP-C…pronounced…GEPP-SEE. Aren’t you proud to be Toisan? In golfing…
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Pick it up, pack it
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Pick it up, pack it in. Let me begin. I love that song. Classes haven’t even officially started, yet I’m procrastinating like heck already. I don’t know how I’m ever going to get that wicked monster called the thesis finished. I didn’t know Hong Kong has the most high speed internet connections in the world.…
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Woohoo! Everything is up and
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Woohoo! Everything is up and running again (except sound) thanks to the computer wizardry of my friend Gordon. I was telling him it’s amazing that I got this page running since I’m so computer illiterate. I hate computers and and it seems like computers hate me. I continue to marvel at the wonders of technology.…
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Guess what we’re having for
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Guess what we’re having for dinner tonight? FRESH lobster! And you know what fresh means? It means live. It means you have to prepare them yourself while they’re still moving. When you bring them home and put them in the sink, they’re still moving. THEY’RE MOVING! My aunt tried to prepare the lobsters but she…