Archive for the ‘Computers/Tech’ Category
“Failed to Find a Place for the Imported File”
I just got this error in Lightroom today for the first time, and I panicked a bit, thinking it was a failing hard drive, something wrong with the USB port in my camera, or something wrong with my SD card. Other people posted the problem online, and it seemed to be solved by using a [...]
Warner Bros Official Bootlegs
Nina’s coworker, who also lives in the building, called up with a problem with a DVD he’d just purchased. It wouldn’t play in either his PS3 or Xbox, so I had him bring it up to try it out on a couple of our DVD-playing devices. When I first saw the case, the first thing [...]
Apple Brainwashing
I noticed on the Apple site the other day that in any instance in which they mention that Macs can run Windows, they show it with the default Windows XP desktop, including the hideous bright blue “Playskool” task bar and the clouds/hills wallpaper. It looks painfully dated, Photoshopped onto their sleek hardware. They often [...]
New Computer Desk?
Look, I don’t have a whole hell of a lot to blog about. I bought a new computer desk (and office chair) and just finished setting it up, so that’s what you get. This is a bit of a milestone, because it’s the first time since I moved to Portland (coming up on two [...]
Fucking Apple and Their Fucking Mouse
There’s tons of published content online complaining about the shortcomings of Apple’s “Mighty Mouse,” I mean, just look at the reviews on the Apple Store and you’ll know what I’m talking about, but I have to bitch a little bit.
Nina owns a Mac onto which I’ve installed Windows, and though we swapped back and forth [...]
BlackBerry Test
I just downloaded a WordPress admin client for my BlackBerry and am testing out writing a mobile blog. Pay no heed.
Edit: Oh, sweet! I will eventually find a use for this. In the meantime I also devised a way to upload pictures from my camera (like, my camera camera, not my phone’s camera) to my [...]
This American Life Download Trick
Maybe I’m a little slow on this, but I learned a cool little trick to download back episodes of This American Life straight from their site. This is helpful if you, for whatever reason, don’t want to just grab them all from a Torrent.
Typically you can only download the newest episode and you have to [...]
Holy Shit: The Pirate Bay Sentenced
I really, really didn’t think that the prosecution in the Pirate Bay trial stood a chance, mostly because it seems like the Pirate Bay has some sort of litigation-proof vest, judging from past run-ins with the law. The defense presented a good case (what was that, a month ago? two months ago?) and I somehow [...]
Top 5 Reasons to Avoid Yahoo! Web Hosting
No, I don’t have some personal vendetta against Yahoo! now, I would just like to point out a couple of the biggest problems with Yahoo!’s Small Business web hosting plans (aside from the unbelievably long hold times for tech support) that should turn anybody off of the service when choosing a web host. I dealt [...]
Blackberry-formatted TV Shows
NOTE — March 25, 2009: Moonplantation as a Blackberry TV site no longer exists — it now hosts my photoblog. Sorry!
So as part of my employment at Yahoo! I got a year of their hosting plan for free. Despite my resignation, this remains in effect, and I’ve been trying to come up with something to [...]
