Today, online hobby electronics retailer SparkFun gave away over $100,000 in merchandise, limited to a maximum of $100 per person, all in just under 2 hours. An awfully generous move by any objective measure, but there seems to be much ill-will towards the company both on Twitter and in the comments section of their “Free [...]
Firefox is a nice browser, but it’s very Gnome-centric. In a KDE environment, it’s totally clueless about what application to use to open any downloaded file. Here’s a little fix I came up with (although probably many others have thought of this) that associates all files with a kfmclient script which is smart enough to [...]
The people in the list below sent unsolicited press releases to Chris Andersen, Wired’s Editor in Chief. That’s not nice. I sympathize with Chris because I have a similar problem. What’s funny is a number of them had the nerve to comment that they believed their actions were justified because 1) they paid for the [...]
It seems like TerminalDigit is turning into the place where all I do is rant about my inbox, but I guess having a theme for your blog is good . . . so here’s the latest issue: I have a relatively common name. I’m not exactly John Smith, but . . . well let’s just [...]
Lately, I’ve been getting more and more e-mails from people requesting “read-receipts,” an annoying way for the super anal to feel super sure that I got their super important message. This one goes out to them. Hi. Guess what? I didn’t get your e-mail. At least I’m not going to confirm that I did because [...]
