Author Archives: Brian

Miranda works again!

After a few days of downtime, Miranda finally works again. Miranda is a multi-protocol IM client and it seems AOL cut off its access. They released a patch that fixes the AIM support. WooHoo! I was using Gaim in the interim and it was painful. Miranda really is a much better client than Gaim, IMHO. It has a very low memory footprint, is totally customizable via plugins, is freeware/open source, does all the major IM protocols, runs from a flash drive, and just works and acts like I want it to. Check it out if you haven’t already.

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Technorati, why hast thou forsaken me?

I don’t know why I bother posting with the Technorati tags any more. Everything was fine at first and they were indexing my site, but for the past month or so, nothing. None of my posts show up in Technorati any more. I can’t figure out why. I even have an account with them and I have tried pinging them multiple different ways but nothing seems to work. I thought it was because my page wouldn’t validate, but I fixed that and still no love. Anyone have any ideas?

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Cool idea: pseudo window

After reading this article about a live transparent desktop on a Mac, (and he actually hints at this near the end)….imagine this….. a big-screen plasma/LCD TV in a windowless room but there is a webcam mounted on the outside wall and the feed from it is connected to this TV mounted on your wall. It would be like having a window in a windowless room. Maybe someday when the prices of LCD/plasma/whatever TVs come down, this would be a possibility.

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