After a very long Easter Sunday, Tirzah Olivia Brinley let out her first cry on Monday, April 25, 2011, sixteen minutes after midnight.
Internet, meet Tirzah; Tirzah, meet Internet. I’m sure you’ll get along nicely.
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Tirzah Olivia Brinley
Hello, ChromeOS
That would be the Cr-48 ChromeOS laptop that arrived unannounced at my door this week.
Haven’t had much chance to delve into it, yet, but at the moment it’s looking like a good computer for:
- The kitchen
- Children
- Business meetings
- Casual web browsing
- General on-the-go connectivity, when a smartphone just isn’t enough (it does SSH and has a full-size keyboard)
More to come…
Redesign: x + 3 v2
I’ve been remiss in calling attention to the redesign launched here a few months ago. May thanks to Stephanie for helping with the design.
There’s still a fair amount of tweaking to be done (isn’t there always?), and I can’t promise universal browser support.
I’m experimenting with a few newer CSS features. Notably:
- Headers use the Republikaps font, loaded using
@font-face - A fair number of drop-shadows are scattered throughout
- The border of the main content area is a combination of two rounded-corner boxes, the inner with a drop-shadow, the outer with an inset drop-shadow (note that due to a bug in WebKit, Safari and Chrome users may see a square outer border)
Much of the above won’t be visible to the 6% of my readers still on Internet Explorer. Frankly, I’m alright with that. In the past month, Opera’s 1.69% among visits to this site outranks IE6 and IE7 combined.
Let me know what you think, or call my attention to any bugs you might notice.
Comcast Is Up to Its Lying Ways Again
Like everyone else, I’m fed up with Comcast again. In the latest insult, my bill has gone up 35% without notice, and the CSR tells me I’m stupid for not anticipating it.
Here’s a letter I received last fall:
A reasonable person would read that letter to say that my rate is changing to $42.95. And it did, for the next six months. But today, my bill said I owed $57.95. I think I’m not alone in recognizing that $42.95 and $57.95 are not the same number.
So I called Comcast. Amy, one of the most unhelpful CSRs I’ve ever spoken with, insisted over and over that I had signed up with a promotional rate in November, that the promotion was now ending, and that Comcast had been clear and upfront about the price all along.
Well, Amy, you’re wrong. That letter clearly states “we will be reducing your price to $42.95 per month”. Amy tells me that I’m an idiot. The letter didn’t explicitly state that this was a permanent rate, so I should have known that it was a temporary, 6-month promotion (Amy, apparently, has incredible psychic powers not available to mere mortals like me). And I should be happy, anyway, because $57.95 is a great, competitive rate for the service I’m getting.
Thanks for lying to me Comcast. Thanks for insulting me. And thanks for buying out a company with better CSRs and replacing them with Amy.
Anyone at Comcast want to fix this?
Wish List: Mobile Clipboard Sharing
A feature I’d like to have on my Droid (or any smart phone, or computer in general): a shared clipboard. I’d like to be able to copy a link, or text, or whatever it is I’m copying on my desktop, and paste it on my phone, and vice versa.
How might this work?
- I copy something on my desktop
- I click on an icon that will send the contents of my clipboard to a web service
- Said web service notifies my phone that it has new content (or my phone polls regularly for new content; I’m not sure how that might work)
- My phone grabs the new content and saves it to its local clipboard
- I paste the content in a appropriate location on my phone
It doesn’t seem horribly complicated at first glance. Is there anything out there that does this?
