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A few months ago in this space, I wrote that Google Chrome was stupid and that it sucked. Well, I gave it another try, and I would like to print a correction. What I meant to say was that Google ...Read More

Google Chrome, Redux

Written by Svenllama.
Posted on March 31, 2010.
Tagged as Google Chrome.
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I was an English major, and have acquired an entire bookcase worth of novels, plays, literary anthologies, criticism, classics, and poetry collections that I know I will never--ever--read again. And sprinkled in with that are a healthy dosage of books ...Read More

Google Books

Written by Svenllama.
Posted on September 17, 2009.
Also filed under Books, World of Svenllama.
Tagged as Cloud Computing, Google, Libraries, Minimalism, Organization.
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I just signed up for Evernote. What a fantastic site. I've been waiting 10 years for something like this. After a decade of emailing little notes and such back and forth between home and the office, I now have it ...Read More

Evernote!

Written by Svenllama.
Posted on June 14, 2009.
Also filed under World of Svenllama.
Tagged as Evernote.
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A couple updates to my experiment in Windows without the bullshit: E-Mail Client: The Interwebs After playing around with every email client I could think of, and consulting with a knowledgeable friend about it, I realized that none of them do ...Read More

Not Open Source (Part 2)

Written by Svenllama.
Posted on June 4, 2009.
Also filed under World of Svenllama.
Tagged as 7-Zip, Acrobat, e-mail, Firefox, Foxit, GMail, Hotmail, Open Source, Opera, PDF, Quicktime, RealPlayer, VLC, Windows Media Player, WinZip.
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The Windows installation on my home computer started getting sluggish, so I decided to reinstall it. And I got this idea that I wanted to build a computer that used open source software wherever possible. I realized pretty quickly that what ...Read More

Not Open Source

Written by Svenllama.
Posted on May 28, 2009.
Also filed under World of Svenllama.
Tagged as CDex, Firefox, Google Chrome, ImgBurn, iTunes, Microsoft Office, Open Source, OpenOffice.org, Opera, Pidgin, Winamp, Windows XP.
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- I need a fucking drink. 2010/09/03
- All I ever needed to know about #AdobeIllustrator I learned in a frenzied panic while trying to avoid working over a long weekend. 2010/09/03
- Pink. RT: @noyokono: QUESTION: What color polo shirt should I buy? 2010/09/03
- OK, Manny was a jerk. But if I'm sick of hearing angry Boston sportswriters going off about the time he pushed the traveling secretary. 2010/09/03
- Streaming the Philip Selway album. I like it. But I don't think I'd ever listen to it more than once. 2010/09/03
- "It's bigger on the inside." #DoctorWho #srsly 2010/09/03
- SLOW YA ROLL! #Drank 2010/09/03
- I figured out what I want to be when I grow up. 2010/09/03
- This ain't no party. This ain't no disco. This ain't no fooling around. 2010/09/03
- RT @brandonstosuy: I worked in a convenience store where I spit in some guy's sandwich because he made fun of my Jesus Lizard t-shirt. I ... 2010/09/03
- The fourteenth doctor concurs. RT: @noyokono: THEORY: Cats are an anomaly in the space-time continuum. 2010/09/03
- I just ate a metric ton of Peanut Butter Bumpers. I will never eat again. 2010/09/03
- As well as "STAB THE COOK!" RT @FakeAPStylebook: When interviewing Tim Curry, resist to urge to shout "SAY IT!!!" during any pauses. 2010/09/02
- Hipster fight! RT @noyokono: Breaking up fights at the fucking Lou Barlow show. Seriously! 2010/09/02
- Speaking of Cola...Open Source Cola. #WTF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_%28drink%29 2010/09/01
- New Coke. 2010/09/01
- Why storage matters: http://bit.ly/a31C43 #DoctorWho 2010/09/01
- Can it, Dalek. RT: @RACINE: dude, you have problems... RT @svenllama I am the Fourteenth Doctor. #DoctorWho #srsly 2010/09/01
- I am the Fourteenth Doctor. #DoctorWho #srsly 2010/09/01
- If your kid's not old enough to post their own status updates on Facebook, I don't care what they're doing. I say this as a parent. 2010/09/01

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