Backup Brain: Tom Negrino and Dori Smith on technology, culture, and politics
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Read A Short Take on Shorting Women (Links)
Read We're speaking at SxSW (Links)
Multiple award winners: | | | | No Country for Old Men : 4 | | The Bourne Ultimatum : 3 | | La Vie en Rose : 2 | | There Will Be Blood : 2 | | | | Jon wraps things up at 8:48 PST, making tonight one of the shortest Oscar ceremonies I can recall.
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Right now, what I'm running out of time to write about is that SxSW is doing something different with their panels for 2007: they're posting the proposals, and then letting anyone who comes along vote for which they think should be included.
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I got this note from my brother-in-law, pointing out an incredible incompatibility with his new MacMini and his old Cinema Display. Apple advertises the Mac Mini as a 'plug and play' option for people who need a new CPU and already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
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This was a poll about local politics, and she could not pronounce "Sonoma" (the name of the county in which I reside). So at that point, I had to ask, "All right, where are you right now?", because I could not imagine that she had ever been anywhere near Sonoma County.
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Read Chapter XXIV. In which I am revealed as a cranky old man. (Links)
Yesterday, Dori and I had to reboot our PCs three times each. Then she was required ( three times) to download and install the Are You Running Genuine Windows, You Fucking Pirate? Huh!? tool, then it required two more reboots to get the damn browser installed and running.
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I first met Lynn and her family four years ago. We'd been email buddies for years, but it wasn't until 2002 that we actually met F2F. But until she's out of the hospital: Lynn, JJ, Josie, and Louisa, you're in our thoughts.
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