1. Jul
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    Put your hotmail down and slowly walk away…

    I find myself using hotmail less and less, mainly two reasons. The first I switched over to macs early this year and am still having a passionate love affair with mail.app included in leopard. I’m using more than three of my gmail-based accounts (imap enabled) and it’s sweet to have all my accounts in sync.

    The second reason may sound pretty dumb but hey, it did it for me. Well, windows live ajax fun stopped working with firefox 3… nobody has fixed it, there are no plans to fix it as far as I know. So Windows live hotmail and firefox 3 don’t play nice… mhhh ditch firefox or ditch hotmail… mhhhh um wait not much to think there.

    Oh and btw I’ve been getting a ridiculous amount of spam to my hotmail from six months back. (Almost as much as my yahoo account). Oh god… I have too many email accounts… time to cut back.

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  2. Jun
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    WWDC ‘08 Conclusions

    Well, I was kinda disappointed by this year’s WWDC, maybe I expected to much? I find it every year the masses start expecting more and more from Apple. It’s not Macworld anyways, maybe thats the problem. Well, having expressed that I must say now I’m enthusiastic about the iPhone 3G (I know I know… I bitched about the iPhone once) not only the features of the actual device I find cool, but mostly the software SDK, very cool apps in the vicinity!

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  3. May
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    You are a true Geek when…

    (Inspired by a conversation I was having last night)

    11. You get invited to more lan parties than actual parties

    10. When you are telling a friend about a girl you just met and they answer “in other words, you are a hacker, you went past the bitch firewall” (Hi Jonathan!)

    9. When you want to make an adium plugin to insert buzzwords into conversations to make you look cool (Jonathan, you there my friend?)

    8. You get as excited about starting a new application as when you start dating someone

    7. You recently stopped using a digital watch

    6. You still use a digital watch

    5. You buy more gadgets than clothes in a year

    4. You want an iPhone

    3. You own an iPhone

    2. You have a blog

    1. You understand, and actively use buzzwords like web 2.0, ajax, podcasts, rss, etc…

    if you my friend are identified by more than 5 items of this list… welcome to the club haha

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    The Perks of Being a Geek

    There is some stuff that will ultimately piss you off when you’re in the IT business, and a geek as myself. People tend to think you know it all because “that’s what you do”. This is a tipical conversation from someone who barely knows you:

    Them: “Hey, how do I make a macro in excel that i can edit myself and… (its all bla bla from here) bla bla bla bla bla…? ”

    Me: “Uh what? I have no idea…”

    Them: “But didn’t you go and study (insert IT-related career name here, in my case Software Engineering)?”

    Me: “Well I’m sorry but I seem to have failed my Office I, Office II, and Office III courses”

    WTF?, srsly, NO I DID NOT GET TAUGHT EVERYTHING THERE IS IN THE SOFTWARE UNIVERSE, and I couldn’t care less about it either.

    So with no more preamble, here is the ultimate “Perks of being a Geek” list:

    1. You will always get a call from a family member asking a random Windows-related problem they are having.

    2. You are supposed to have the answer to item #1 with the following problem description: “It locked up.”

    3. Family friends are supposed to get free tech support 24/7. You won’t get paid more than the occasional soda or cookie while making the house call.

    4. You are THE ms office guru.

    5. Web designer = FREE WEBSITES FOR ALL

    6. You become tech support not only for their PC but also their ISP, cable company, microwave oven, remote controls, surround sound systems, digital watches, lamps and all sorts of electrical installations

    7. You are expected to know where everything is located in every existing piece of software by hard

    I’m sure I’m missing a lot of other perks… I’ll be adding more along the way =)

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