Alex Blackie

My desktop, April 30, 2012. I’ve switched to Ubuntu, after...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:15:58 -0700

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...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:03:43 -0700

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...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:11:17 -0800

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...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:09:00 -0800

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.

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:03:10 -0800

My desktop, December 26, 2011.

Christmas crackers. Yay.

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:09:49 -0800

Christmas crackers. Yay.

Of all my Christmas presents, this is probably one of the most...

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:32:28 -0800

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."

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:06:09 -0800

“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...

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:46:13 -0800

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

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:38:43 -0800

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.

Swirling

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:45:38 -0800

Flash is slowly being killed off by Adobe. To us who have an opposition to Flash, this is good news. Adobe has just announced they’re cutting off Flash on mobile devices, TVs, and pretty much every device that isn’t a desktop.

What does this signify? It signifies that Adobe sees the Flash has passed its prime, and are pushing modern, better alternatives (HTML5).

Adobe has lost interest in Flash; they see that it’s simply not worth it to carry on supporting a technology that has seen better days and, now, has some real competition as standards slowly catch up.

My desktop on October 22, 2011. Why? I don’t know. Simply...

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:57:00 -0700

My desktop on October 22, 2011.

Why? I don’t know. Simply for archive’s sake. I’ll try to do one of these per month. It’ll be interesting to see what changes and such.