Archive for December, 2007

How To Connect to iDisk in Ubuntu 6

For those Mac users who have switched to, or are trying out, Ubuntu Linux, here’s how to connect to your iDisk: Step One:  Go to Places -> Connect to Server (from the top panelbar) Step Two: Set the Service Type to “WebDav”. Step Three: Enter “idisk.mac.com” as the Server. Step Four:  Enter your .Mac username [...]

Just Wondering 1

Fundamentalist Christians make a lot out of saying that the Bible is the true Word of God.  They use this belief as justification for taking the Bible literally, or at least as literally as they feel like (I don’t think any of them keep kosher). But is this belief, itself, Biblical?  I remember many times [...]

ToT Reviews EVE 0

The Trackball of Truth has posted a review of EVE Online that sounds all too familiar: great graphics, steep learning curve, klunky user interface. Naturally, he’s stopped playing the game. I had a similar experience with EVE. I didn’t think the learning curve was too bad (maybe I’m too used to number-crunching my way through [...]

Hello world! 1

Welcome to my new home on the web! As you can see, I’ve moved everything over from the old Blogger site, including the flash fiction pieces from O’Toole’s Pub. My hope in switching over to my own domain is to have more room to grow and more control over the entire site. Bear with me [...]

Oh, the Irony! 0

I was just thinking how many cool web domain names are already taken, when I wondered, “What if you had a site with the name www.allthegoodnamesaretaken.com? Wouldn’t that be ironic and hip?” It turns out someone beat me to the irony, but left out the hip: that domain name is being squatted on by some [...]