There have been many new members and guests visiting LBnuke in the past few months. It is perfectly okay to be anonymous here, but for those of you that feel like saying hi, I would appreciate it because I get curious about who is visiting. Thanks 🙂
Stolen from HamsterDance.com:
It’s occurring to me that it’s not so random that I stumbled onto that article a couple of months ago and found out I have asperger’s syndrome (a kind of autism). Turns out there’s a lot of people, most either autistic themselves, or who have an autistic child, that have been working very hard for …
Today is 05/05/05. Cool!
Today is also my first day w/Tiger. So far, so good. Very smooth upgrade, even though I chose the ‘erase and install’ option. I transferred my user settings and apps from my panther clone on an external firewire drive after installing. Next time, I would install the apps manually afterwards, but truth be told, I was too excited, and didn’t feel like dealing with it. I had already found tiger compatible updates for most apps before the install. Only problem was virex, which i knew wouldn’t work; and I had to get update for sidetrack. I hated not having it, even for the 1/2 hour that it was gone.
Widgets are pretty cool. I downloaded one that is a rubik’s cube for the desktop, one for easy uploads to flickr, one that makes a user defined slideshow from flickr, jiwire hotspot finder, wikipedia lookup, and a color picker. I liked the included weather, dictionary, calculator, unit converter, translator, flight tracker, and tiger tile game, but have not yet figured out how to type on the sticky note.
Spotlight rocks as hard as they promised it would, and as of now, I have retired my ever faithful copy of Quicksilver application launcher. Safari RSS reader is WAY better than anything I was expecting! I’ve still been using netnewswire for subscribed feeds, but I’m using safari for viewing feeds that i click on.
I am SO excited for automator, but haven’t had time to play yet. Also haven’t tried new mail, ical, or address book yet. I wonder if they can sway me from Entourage…
Finally! Microsoft is moving towards a more web standards compliant browser. The first beta release of Internet Explorer 7 is expected to be released sometime this summer. Here’s the latest news from the IE Weblog: Support the alpha channel in PNG images. We’ve actually had this on our radar for a long time, and have …
echolalia
it means to repeat something
echolalia
why am i writing?
sudden interest in haiku
what’s going on here?
my head is too full
i need to let some words out
to make room for more
it clutters my mind
this thing that is the screaming
i am tired of it
in a flash i am
no longer me, but aspie
confused; there’s no cure
i can’t remember
what i was doing just now
my mind is broken
i don’t want to test
i want to learn karate
without any stress
i know this is gay
but it’s a fun way to say
what gets in the way
thinking in numbers
it’s fun counting syllables
words are what comes out
this story is done
coming out of my fingers
it’s an accident
echolalia
repeat echolalia
echolalia
2 webgeek software giants, $3.4B, what happens next? PhotoWeaver CSMX 2005? Slashdot has some geek perspectives on the big news.
Who knew? The things you learn when you suddenly find out you’re autistic! It’s been about a month now, and I’ve been on a wild rollercoaster ride trying to process all that I’ve learned and experienced since then. It is amazing to suddenly have access to so many resources to get information, not to mention …
User registration appears to be fixed now. Please let me know if you have any trouble. After you register, you will receive and email with an automatically generated password. Use it to log in, and then click on ‘edit your information’ to enter a new password and any other info you like. Click the ‘save …
Doesn’t get much geekier than this…
The Games section is updated. New code, slightly new design, and 5 new games: 3d Snake, Disco Racer, Beer Drag, Bulbs Away, and Cheetah Race
I think this may be the first ‘post about me’ that I’ve made here on LBnuke, or anywhere else for that matter. I post about things I do, places I go, things I find, things that are interesting to me, but never anything that is ‘about me’.
I have reset comments permissions to include unregistered users while I try an experiment with site security. If all goes well, they will stay that way. If not, I’ll have to change it back to registered users only. I originally closed them because of tons of comment spam.
I’ve been meaning to post this link to bugmenot, a page that allows people to bypass compulsory web registration for sites like nytimes.com. Is it legal? I don’t know. But it’s pretty handy. I also came across this link to a very interesting article on developing sites for users with cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties. …
3 new hangman games are added to the Hangman section (Other Stuff menu). They are Broadway, Video Games, and Rock and Pop. Have Fun 🙂
Name Voyager is a fun java app (your browser must run java to play with it) where you type in a name, and it charts the name by U.S. popularity, by decade, for the past century. For example, if I enter “Lori”, the graph starts going up at around 1940, peaks in the 60’s, and …
Had fun at the WordPress upgrade party last night. Upgraded lbg to wp 1.5. The upgrade was very smooth and easy besides from the second sidebar being kind of tricky. Got some help from Matt to fix it. Lots of nice people there, including some web dev heroes of mine, Eric Meyer and Molly Holzschlag. …
Side Track is a replacement driver for apple ibooks and powerbooks. It adds much needed functionality to the apple trackpad. Coming from the 5 button scrolling mouse on the pc, I was very frustrated with the trackpad on my powerbook. The worst thing was that if I set the trackpad for ‘tap to click’, and …
