Once again, I’ve filled up my hard drive. It’s inevitable, really – I tend to keep everything, and my music, picture, and video collections are quite… extensive. What’s sad is that I bought my computer a little over a year ago, and I distinctly remember remaking that its 160 GB hard drive should be “big… Continue reading A Computer Conundrum
Category: tech
Comcastic “Support?”
Earlier this week, on Monday, I had some Internet trouble. My ISP, Patriot Media, was recently bought out by that cable company everyone loves to hate, Comcast. On Monday, my Internet stopped working, and so I set about trying to figure out what went wrong. I saw right away that it seemed as though my… Continue reading Comcastic “Support?”
So Far, So Good (Mostly) With Mozy
So I’ve been using Mozy for a little over a month now, and so far I’m pretty pleased with it. It did take a while to do the initial backup, but that’s to be expected – I do have a lot of data to back up! I liked the fact that I could schedule Mozy… Continue reading So Far, So Good (Mostly) With Mozy
WordPress 2.5
Well, I took the plunge and upgraded to WordPress 2.5. I’m actually quite surprised – I didn’t look at any of the release candidates, so the new style (for the admin interface) is totally new to me. I have to say I’m quite taken with it (although I did switch back to the “classic” color… Continue reading WordPress 2.5
Speech Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
Every so often, I’ll get a little pissed off and start wondering aloud, “where the hell are my talking computers?” Seriously, though – it’s 2008. Ten years ago, we were sure that by now, speech recognition would have surpassed the keyboard as the primary means of input. Hell, we’ve been predicting it for so long,… Continue reading Speech Recognition and Artificial Intelligence