My desktop, April 30, 2012. I’ve switched to Ubuntu, after about two weeks of hopping OSes pretty much every other day. I plan to stay with Ubuntu, and if I do make it past a week, I’ll properly blog about the experience.

My desktop, April 30, 2012. I’ve switched to Ubuntu, after about two weeks of hopping OSes pretty much every other day. I plan to stay with Ubuntu, and if I do make it past a week, I’ll properly blog about the experience.

First screenshot from my new Air. I think I have too much running in the background…

First screenshot from my new Air. I think I have too much running in the background…

My desktop, February 26, 2012.

Don’t ask about the whole “Dew Mop” thing…

My desktop, February 26, 2012.

Don’t ask about the whole “Dew Mop” thing…

My desktop, January 26, 2012. The two horizontal graphs are my CPU load and the pie graph is my RAM usage (Menu Meters).

Update: By the way, I have my dock indicator lights turned off. Most of those applications are open.

My desktop, January 26, 2012. The two horizontal graphs are my CPU load and the pie graph is my RAM usage (Menu Meters).

Update: By the way, I have my dock indicator lights turned off. Most of those applications are open.

My desktop, December 26, 2011.

My desktop, December 26, 2011.

Christmas crackers. Yay.

Christmas crackers. Yay.

Of all my Christmas presents, this is probably one of the most exciting. Only on the first chapter still, but it’s been hard to put down the times I’ve dove into it.

And yes, that is a red floppy diskette in the background…

Of all my Christmas presents, this is probably one of the most exciting. Only on the first chapter still, but it’s been hard to put down the times I’ve dove into it.

And yes, that is a red floppy diskette in the background…

When the system gets in the way of education, you have a problem.
My English teacher. Probably my favourite teacher and class.
My desktop: November 26th, 2011.

Following with last month’s post, I plan to post a screenshot of my desktop every month. It’ll be interesting to see some of the changes of not only the picture, but the dock icons and placement, etc.

My desktop: November 26th, 2011.

Following with last month’s post, I plan to post a screenshot of my desktop every month. It’ll be interesting to see some of the changes of not only the picture, but the dock icons and placement, etc.

Why Paper.li Doesn’t Work

Paper.li, if you don’t know, is a social media aggregator of sorts that pulls in other people’s blog posts and tweets and spams out a tweet to all of them. Well, today two of my posts got sucked into one of these “papers”, and the irony was quite amusing.

The paper’s topic was something to do with freelancing. I clicked on it only to see what it had pulled in… It was a surprise.

Paper.li pulled in my blog post about NaNoWriMo, and my video of my band playing at my school. Pretty much the opposite of the topic of the paper, yet my stuff was included. I do tweet about freelance stuff as well, but I guess the bot couldn’t tell the difference between a concert video and a link to a web design article.

So I laughed, closed the tab, and carried on.

Paper.li is bringing absolutely no value to the world. So, please, stop using it and maybe it will go away, if we could be so lucky.

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