Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Technology

There goes classic gaming.

This is such crap: new Sony lockware prevents selling or loaning of games. Sony’s basically trying to kill – entirely – what miniscule efforts exist for classic gaming. I’m a book collector, and I’m constantly on the lookout for old hardcover editions from my favorite authors. Would I be the first one to read them? […]

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In which I get one monitor back while hoping for two.

So my troubles with my desktop continue apace. Last night I decided to try the time-honored method of solving a problem by throwing money at it, marched down to the local Apple Store here in Cambridge and sensibly bought a new video card. I brought it home, plugged it in, and the damn thing worked […]

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Say you want a Revolution.

So they’ve unveiled the controllers for the upcoming Nintendo Revolution, and they’re, um, odd. They look more like DVD remotes than traditional controllers (although they can be rotated to resemble the ‘classic’ approach), and operate more like one-handed gyroscopic mice. An additional option is the left-hand analog stick attachment, which could make next-gen shooters like […]

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Video iPod + podcasting = videoblogging renaissance?

There’s been so much hullaballoo over videoblogging lately that I find myself wondering exactly what it’ll take for me to really get into it – and this morning I figured it out. A video iPod, or easy podcast subscriptions for my Treo. Weblogs are awesome. Weblogs present personal data and opinions and reports in a […]

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Doomed, you say?

Fast Company asserts that the iPod is doomed due to Apple’s failure to support an economic ecosystem around it. While it’s debatable that this mentality did originally result in the market defeat of the Mac OS by Windows, I think Belkin, Griffin, Bose, Harmon-Kardon, and the dozens of other companies making iPod products would all […]

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Woot! AJAX!

OK, so I had a major headache getting this to work, and I’m still not entirely certain what the problem was, but regardless, I now have the OpenRico accordion trick up and running here on the lefthand sidebar of my main weblog page. Mostly. The bottom tab, the ever-neglected ‘Personal Improvement’ tab, has some issues […]

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Is there an AJAX guru in the house?

OK, so I’m trying to install the OpenRico accordion trick to the lower left component of this page, but I’m not having any luck. It works fine on their demo page, so I’m not sure what I’m missing. Are there any AJAX wonks in the house that could throw me a bone here? Please?

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Is this thing on?

Just trying something out. Move along, there’s nothing to see here.

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Bring on Adobe Flash MX 2006.

Dear sweet Jesus, if the Adobe-Macromedia merger means that Flash MX 2006 will support Photoshop-esque layer effects, I want it and I want it right now. That is all.

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More thoughts on Macrodobe.

Yeah, yeah, I know the resulting entity is going to be just ‘Adobe’, but ‘Macrodobe’ is fun to say. Anyway, I’m going to start adding links to who says what about this new development. Check back here as we go along. Update: Added some more initial reactions. So far, ‘shock and awe’ pretty much sums […]

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