I have some kick ass coffee in my mug right now. It’s Kicking Horse fair trade organic. I have a feeling the name of this blend substantially helps sales. Unfortunately they do not specify what the blend is. Nice dark roast.
Freshly ground and 3½ minutes in the french press. Bold flavours. Not bitter. Nice cup [...]
Filed under: fun on April 19th, 2006 | No Comments »
That’s right: I finally got around to getting my laptop to run cooler. I had known for some time that this is done by scaling down the cpu frequency, but I didn’t figure out how to get it to work on this computer until now. Actually my desktop computer has had cpu frequency scaling working [...]
Filed under: open source, software on April 11th, 2006 | No Comments »
ZDNet UK article reports that
Microsoft has urged UK PC vendors not to give customers the opportunity to buy a PC without a pre-installed operating system.
[...] “We want to urge all system builders — indeed, all Partners — not to supply naked PCs. [...]
This slashdot post made me laugh: “So, since they don’t want naked [...]
Filed under: fun, guidedvision.com, literacy, open source, software on April 5th, 2006 | No Comments »