Monthly Archives: April 2010

Ubuntu Annoyances

Ubuntu 10.04 came out yesterday. It’s probably the best desktop Linux distro out there, which is about as prestigious as being the best Yugoslavian car company. Here are a few simple things that have annoyed me users for years. I’ve included the year each bug was created along with links to any upstream bug reports [...]

Is My Credit Card Stolen?

Paul bought ismycreditcardstolen.com a couple days ago. AJ came up with the idea a while back, but Paul’s purchase of the domain drove me to throw together a site. The goal was to educate gullible people about phishing while amusing the technically-inclined. With some help from friends (Ben Lowery and Bjorn Tipling), I cleaned up [...]

Good Design in a Boring Appliance

I’m impressed enough with a rice cooker that I’m writing about it. Yes, I think that’s weird, even for me. Rice cookers are boring, right? That’s what I thought when I ordered one last month. When I pulled the thing out of the box I was impressed with how pretty it was. Then I was [...]