What is Man?

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him? Psalms 8:4

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Category: Software

What Do You Do With a 366Mghz Laptop?

19 November, 2008 (18:41) | Hardware, Software, Technology | No comments

I had an old Thinkpad 570 laptop in the closet, 366Mghz, 192 megabytes of ram, 6 gig hard disk, Windows 2000. It has a dock, but without it, it’s got 1 usb 1.0 port and no optical drive. The 5000 series was at one time a line of premium ultra-portables with a sterling reputation, and […]

How to Become an Ex-Pirate

7 November, 2008 (20:31) | Software, Technology | No comments

I used to pirate software. Until 2007, every piece of software I used was either pirated, free, or open source. Music wasn’t spared, either. At one point I had nearly 80 gigs of music, most ripped from friend’s CD collections or downloaded. I could write a whole post on how I justified piracy. I came […]

Windows Live Writer

29 October, 2008 (10:14) | Software, Technology | No comments

So I’m experimenting with Windows Live Writer as a manager for this blog. It’s part of the Windows Live suit, which includes Live Mail, Messenger, Photo Gallery, and a toolbar for access (get.live.com). I don’t really have a use for the rest of those, I already have Outlook for email,  Pidgen for text messaging, and […]