September 2008
9 posts
Skype Chat Stats
I made a little Skype Chat Stats script. You can run it on a Skype chat (most useful in group chats, although it works in 1:1 too) and it gives you this result. (Period is customizable.)
Chat statistics for 1.1.2007-31.12.2008
By message count:
8235 Al Bino
4925 Al Fresco
4111 Amanda Lynn
2947 Barb Dwyer
2904 Barry Cade
2881 Bea Minor
2852 Bill Board
By text...
The experience of Wii as a FPS console, and Medal...
I’ve now had Wii for a while. I was initially torn between Wii and Xbox 360, but I really wanted to check out the Wii’s nonconvential controls (well, I had tried it before, but I wanted to see what it is like to own one). And my understanding is that Xbox360 and PS3 are for much more hardcore gamers, while I am mostly a “casual gamer” these days. I don’t put too many...
I liked Obama more than McCain in their debate...
I don’t watch American news that much, so I’m not really following all the details of the campaign. But the current election is important enough that I try to at least keep myself generally posted. And tonight was Obama’s and McCain’s first live television debate, which was supposed to be the only one about foreign policy, so there were many reasons why I should watch it.
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Phone spam and identity theft
I’ve had a US mobile number for more than a year. And I am happy to say that during that year, I only got maybe two or three spam calls (meaning calls from people who were trying to sell me something). And none of those were really spam in the traditional sense, from people I had no relation with. Instead, they were from businesses that I already had a relationship with, and who were trying...
Slight differences between my old and new MacBook...
Oops, this post published a bit early, so if you saw an old, empty one, you should have refreshed ;)
I’m upgrading my computers from a year-and-half-old MacBook Pro (2.33 GHz, 3GB, 160 GB) to a current, updated one (2.5 GHz, 4GB, 200 GB). I thought I’d note down the slight differences between their hardware that I’ve found.
Many keys are now labeled more...
The "Merry Tank" children's drawing contest
I had a different intro to this post previously, but things have changed and here’s what’s up. Someone set up a fake/satirical children’s drawing contest page which me and some other people initially took for real. But as was pointed out in comments like this, the whole thing is most probably a fake and satire and the drawings are all by adults. My bad.
So, I have two questions...
The contrast of IKEA buying and home delivery...
This will be my last IKEA post for a while ;) but I wanted to post about the contrast I experienced between the buying and home delivery experiences while going to their new Brooklyn store. In short, I was done selecting and buying and paying in 30 minutes, and I had to wait the next full hour in an overcrowded delivery line.
I find the IKEA purchase process to be very well suited for my taste....
Google Chrome: a great new browser with much...
I had the luxury/annoyance (depends on how you look at it ;) ) of having to sit at home all day, being forced to wait for some plumbers who never came. But, today was also the day when Google Chrome was released. So, not only did I go through their comic book, but I also learned about the webcast and watched it. And downloaded the thing itself and played with it too.
Marketing
I like the...
IKEA, Apple, and ephemeral stuff
I’m currently in the process of setting up my new life in New York City. (I’m going to work here now for a while… more on the work stuff some other time.) I found a decent apartment that came without anything in it, aside from the very nicely furnished new kitchen. And as I didn’t own any furniture before in the US, I’ve been buying stuff from IKEA to furnish my...
