Ever the sore sport, I have to complain about this apparent phenomenon. Is Google really giving preferential treatment to “burners?” Is it the case, as it seemed to be with kids in high school, that our peers view a person’s association with a brand name as a sign of independent thinking? While […]
Go figure - look what happened on the same day I posted about Starbucks’ use of trans fat. The stuff doesn’t taste any better, and it’s basically a poison that seems to cause some serious damage over time. I’ve found myself feeling sqeamish at restaurants, wondering what kind of oil they were cooking […]
Let me start with what I feel is the most important difference: Au Bon Pain generally doesn’t put any trans fat in their baked goods. An extreme example of Starbucks‘ wanton use of hydrogenated oils — and thus trans fat — would be the Apple Fritter, coming in at 11 grams of trans fat […]
Just a little update: After installing the nvidia-glx package yesterday, I was still unable to get my screen resolution up to 1280×1024 (which my video card and monitor are fully capable of doing). Today when I got home from work, I ineptly googled for a minute, then on a prayer I typed apropos nvidia […]
Think long and hard before you decide how big your Ubuntu partition is going to be. Mine was half of a 100 gig drive — ultimately too small. I learned the hard way yesterday that QTParted doesn’t resize ext3 partitions, and that’s the only kind of partition I had on the disk. […]
OnForce will be sending me to San Jose around Halloween for a 4-day stint at the Zend PHP Conference. I’m really looking forward to hearing some speakers on PHP frameworks and advanced web service implementations. One of our own, Scott Mattocks, will be presenting on "Consuming Web Services with PHP-GTK 2". Scott […]
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