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29/6/10
Technology bits
29/6/10 17:06I was all set to endorse Last Year's Model until I realize that, cheap and featureless as my phone is, it's not only new, but the third phone I bought within a twelve month period.
(In Oct. 2008 I dropped my phone on the floor at the hospital and cracked it, in May 2009 I left my phone in a taxi after WisCon, and in July 2009 I left my phone in a taxi after surgery. I'll give myself a pass on the first one because it was a terrible old phone and I had a fracture. I'll give myself a pass on the last one because general anesthesia can do a number on a person).
I feel like Windows/Linux may be the best of both worlds. It's cheaper than buying a Mac, I get iTunes, I get games, I can do all the stuff that gets ported late to Mac like Netflix streaming, and I still get to have an OS I like and feel at home in for everything else. Plus, if I can't find a application to do something, or can't figure out how to do something, I can always try with the other OS.
Except Windows did *something* to GRUB (the thing that lets you choose which operating system to boot into) and I had to reinstall Linux to get *any* OS back. And therefore I now have Ubuntu, Ubuntu Netbook Edition, and Windows all installed in separate partitions on my computer. Hopefully this will not be a continuing issue.
At any rate, I am very happy right now with the New! and Shiny! and probably need to go back to writing.
(In Oct. 2008 I dropped my phone on the floor at the hospital and cracked it, in May 2009 I left my phone in a taxi after WisCon, and in July 2009 I left my phone in a taxi after surgery. I'll give myself a pass on the first one because it was a terrible old phone and I had a fracture. I'll give myself a pass on the last one because general anesthesia can do a number on a person).
I feel like Windows/Linux may be the best of both worlds. It's cheaper than buying a Mac, I get iTunes, I get games, I can do all the stuff that gets ported late to Mac like Netflix streaming, and I still get to have an OS I like and feel at home in for everything else. Plus, if I can't find a application to do something, or can't figure out how to do something, I can always try with the other OS.
Except Windows did *something* to GRUB (the thing that lets you choose which operating system to boot into) and I had to reinstall Linux to get *any* OS back. And therefore I now have Ubuntu, Ubuntu Netbook Edition, and Windows all installed in separate partitions on my computer. Hopefully this will not be a continuing issue.
At any rate, I am very happy right now with the New! and Shiny! and probably need to go back to writing.
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Urbanizing suburbia
29/6/10 19:55Ellen Dunham-Jones's TED talk on urbanizing suburbia.
Disregard, if you can, the Obesity Moral Panic!!! because I do think she makes some excellent points.
Disregard, if you can, the Obesity Moral Panic!!! because I do think she makes some excellent points.
For instance, here in Atlanta, about half of households make between $20,000 and $50,000 a year, and they are spending 29% of their income on housing, and 32% on transportation. And that's 2005 figures, that's before we got up to the 4 bucks a gallon.
The two big demographic groups are the baby boomers, retiring... Generation Y hasn't even started hitting child-rearing age. As a result of that, demographers predict that through 2025 75 to 85 percent of new households will not have kids in them.