I have to admit, I was a little bit gobsmacked when I saw that our little nerd world is becoming so mainstream that Jimmy Fallon had a gadget blogger featured on his show the other night — and it wasn't even for an iPhone launch! Now, I believe Mr. Fallon is genuinely a geek (and I know Questl...

Prompted by watching Margaret tonight (recommended, indeed), I asked my favourite Englishman whether I'd get bored watching cricket. I had remembered he said the game is more about tea breaks and cakes than playing (or winning, for that matter), sprinkled with a fair amount of socialising chit-chat ...

It's been a productive bout of geekery (thus the silence). As part of a project I needed to upgrade all the boxes in the home to Fedora 10, that is 5 boxes running various incarnations of Core from version 6 to 9 on both mundane and fairly exotic hardware and with complex and often custom installati...

Hey folks, So I made me a couple of data DVDs when I updated newmoon and lodestone to Debian 5--since I wanted to have me a quick and dirty archive copy of the various servers' backup files before I upgraded the OS. The upgrade went okay, but the problem I have now is that the DVDs I burned are appa...

Rachel Maddow, celebrating things that only nerds would love. And of course, I love them both: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !importa...

With all the recent talk of videogames (and hot girls), we've found ourselves with gadgets on the brain. Well, not just gadgets—gadgets that happened to be paired with delightfully hot (and deliciously naked) girls. In order to purge our mind of this obsession, once and for all, we've decided ...

Entertainment Weekly has six special covers this week (or last week?) to showcase each of the primary Watchmen characters. Here’s Rorschach: Everybody flipped out. His mask, his specifically to psychologize you ink blot mask, apparently looks like a penis. Ironic, right? What with him being so...

Komodo Edit PHP Sample Komodo Edit 5 has been my default code editor for the past week or so. It is much faster and nicer to look at than previous versions that I have tried. I switch default code editors almost as often as I switch default browsers. There are so many good ones out there, but none f...

We can all dig Wizard Rock, right? Who doesn’t love people forming up rock bands– many of them with actual song-writing and instrument-playing skills!– and then singing about the various characters and plots of the Harry Potter universe? I got started with Harry and the Potters. Fr...

Okay, so here’s a rant that I’ve had boil up in my head for the better part of a year or two, and finally, well, I’m here. If I made a band’s Web site, I would have, at a minimum: Lyrics to the songs. This is so unbelievably important, and it’s so unfuckinglybelieveably...