Archives for: " 2009"

12/10/09

  23:39:00 by Joe, Categories: General
When Barnes & Noble announced their eBook reader, the Nook, a couple of weeks back, I decided to pre-order it. I was in the market for an eBook already, anyway, and I had decided to not buy Amazon's Kindle because of their remote killswitch debacle.… more »

11/29/09

  18:09:00 by Joe, Categories: General
Recently, I made the mistake of buying a relatively expensive item (a Sonos Zoneplayer S5, ca. $400) at a local Best Buy store. Unfortunately, the item was sold out pretty much everywhere else, with Amazon showing a delivery time of 1-2 months. Since I… more »

11/15/09

  23:05:00 by Joe, Categories: Programming, Open Source, KDE, Slackware , Tags: icq, kde, kde 3_5, slackware, yahoo
Support for Yahoo and ICQ IM protocols in Kopete for KDE 3.5. Slackware packages. more »

11/11/09

  19:05:00 by Joe, Categories: Politics
Here is the announcement. All I can say is good riddance. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. The anti-immigrant antics of Mr. Dobbs really showed his complete disconnect with reality. more »

11/09/09

  11:45:00 by Joe, Categories: General
The world today is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall. Here is some news coverage from the BBC and CNN. All this brings back memories, since I was right there, in the middle of it. I went with a couple of friends to Chec… more »

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