BurningbirdI recently upgraded my Dell laptop to Windows XP — the last upgrade for this particular computer until it needs to be turned into a pure Linux machine. As such, I could download the IE 7 beta. The very positive aspect of IE is the fact that PNG images actually work with this browser now, […]
Related to the Kicking Butt panel, an audience member who made reference to her long blond hair and pretty dress wrote an original response basically calling all the panel members lesbians because they were wearing pants and had short hair. She has since edited this out after a couple of panel members and one of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I hesitated to mention the “Whose Butt should we be kicking” panel at SxSW until I saw more detail on the session. Thankfully, Dru Blood provided a fairly detailed liveblogging of the event. It was a mistake for SxSW to keep this session once the original panel broke up. There was a […]
The weather has been extraordinarily erratic: hot, humid, and stormy followed by icy, dry calm, then back to hot, then cold, then back, until I’m exhausted. Seriously, if I wanted to live life alternating between stormy heat and cold calm, I’d date a guy with commitment issues. We spent most of the weekend under a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are just some things that don’t belong in a Best Practices Manual… One investigator to another, as they slowly walk through the wreckage of a 747–bits of fuselage and bodies lying about: “Well the Best Practices Manual suggested that the pilot use the landing gear rather than attempt to […]