Longtime readers have probably seen the odd post about my getting fed up with Firefox and migrating my workflow (and much of my online data archive) to Chromium, which has been significantly faster if nothing else than Firefox lately. Of course, due to Windbringer's screen resolution I immediately ran into problems with just about every font size being too small, including the text in the URL bar, the menus, and the add-ons that I use. On a lark I went back to my font sizes in Keybase article and give it a try. Lo and behold, when I used --force-device-scale-factor …
Some time ago I wrote an article of suggestions for archiving web content offline, at the very least to have local copies in the event that connectivity was unavailable. I also expressed some frustration that there didn't seem to be any workable options for the Chromium web browser because I'd been having trouble getting the viable options working. After my attempt at fixing up Firefox fell far short of my goal (it worked for all of a day, if that) I realized that I needed to come up with something that would let me do what I needed to do …
If you've been around for a while you may remember a certain magazine called Mondo 2000 from the 90's. It was a time when using the prefix cyber- wasn't done in irony and computers were still weird and edgy and nobody actually knew what the hell they were doing. Psychedelic explorers like Timothy Leary and Terence McKenna were still alive (though Leary died in '96 and McKenna four years later), raves required you to go on quests to find map points so you could get your wristband to get in, and we all knew - we just knew - that the Net …
Reece Markowsky is a friend and colleague of mine from work who lives and works in British Columbia. Late last week he received word that his brother passed away after a protracted period of hospitalization. As one might imagine he's devastated by this. Unfortunately his sister-in-law Shari is now a single mother of two young boys who is now on a single income, trying to pay for the funeral, and trying to get by until she can find a job. Reece has started a crowdfunding campaign on her behalf.
I've been a fan of the band Alphaville since I was quite small. They seem to have a knack for catch hooks and lyrics that never fail to make you think about when and why they were written. If you're not familiar with them, you've probably heard Big In Japan and Sounds Like A Melody, so that should job your memory. So, when I heard that they'd be coming to the States to tour for the first time in eleven years I bought a ticket immediately. It caught my attention that Christopher Anton (former frontman for InSoc) had assembled a …
Because I don't have it in me right now to do a full writeup, here are some pictures from the iVardensphere and VNV Nation concert on 18 August 2017. They were taken at the San Francisco show of the Automatic Empire tour, in which VNV played both the Automatic and Empires albums back to back. iVardenSphere was a solo act this time around, and performed an all-improvisational set on his equipment, something that one person carefully characterized as an industrial algorave. VNV Nation took the stage with their usual aplomb and Ronan spent an unusual amount of time talking with …
quantum budget superposition - noun - A bank account's state of existence during the time in which you're waiting for your landlord to cash the rent cheque so you don't actually know how much money you have at a given time t. Spend too much and your rent cheque bounces. Spend too little and you put off important bills for too long.
Chances are you're running one of two major web browsers on the desktop to read my website - Firefox or Google's Chrome.
Chrome isn't bad; I have to use it at work (it's the only browser we're allowed to have, enforced centrally). In point of fact, I'd have switched to it a long time ago if it wasn't for one thing. I make heavy use of a plugin for Firefox called Scrapbook Plus, which make it possible to take a full snapshot of a web page and store it locally so that it can be read offline, annotated, and full-text searched …
gitmnesia - noun - That feeling when you receive an update email about some ticket on Github from a project that you haven't looked at in so long that you don't recognize its name. Generally a sign that you follow too many projects on Github.
icon blindness - noun phrase - The state of mind in which you search your desktop for minutes on end for one particular application's icon but don't find it. You give up and open it from the application menu, whereupon you have no trouble remembering which category it's in or what the name (in text) of the application is.
