becoming

the trail of a family becoming

Firefox & Touchpad Scrolling

With a search on the internet, it seems a lot of people are having the same problem when their notebook touchpad not working with Firefox scrolling.

To cut the long story short, the solution seems to be a simple upgrade of the Synaptics driver

Notebook

Well, I have been using the BlueLine A19 notebooks for years. And don’t get me wrong, I will continue to use them. But it is time for me to enter the mobile world and have a notebook computer as well. I thought about the Apple iBook for a while, but let’s face it, unless I don’t have to share information with anybody else, otherwise a Windows based system is what I am stuck with it.

But while I can’t subvert the Windows empire, I am happy to at least be able to choose an AMD Turion based machine. It is the HP L2105CA with AMD Turion 64 ML-32. This is the Lance Armstrong edition (ie. the steroid version of Compaq V2570 which L2 cache, RAM and HD upgraded). I don’t have it yet. It is still shipping from Bestbuy (that’s another story…..)

Come to think of it. I find it very interesting since for all these years working as a programmer, I can avoid having a notebook. I was given a blackberry from work and I hated it. Now, I left the IT world, but only to find myself purchasing a notebook. Isn’t that ironic?

Real or Not Real? (Part II)

This short by Neill Blomkamp depicts a fictional world where extraterrestrials have become refugees in South Africa. Producers: Neill Blomkamp, Simon Hansen, Sharlto Copley, Shannon Worley.

What if one day there is no media as we know it, and you get news only from bloggers around the world, and you come across this?

WordPress plugin: Greekify

Chris Goringe wrote a great plugin and let WordPress displays Greek NT (or LXX OT).

From the site:

Greekify is a WordPress plugin designed to allow you to insert passages of the New Testament (or the Old Testament LXX) into your blog in Greek, with detailed grammatical information available as tooltips (based on the excellent XML feed provided by Zhubert.com), and with every word hyperlinking back to Zhubert.com’s analysis site. It is a little more effort to install than most plugins, but the step-by-step instructions below should do it for you…

TechCrunch

TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new web 2.0 products and companies.

If you are fascinated by the recent explosion of online applications written in ajax, check it out! 

Technorati

I am learning about and playing with Technorati tags lately. Blogging is such a wonderful thing. You can see if people linked to your blog entries and also what other people are saying about the same topic…. such endless possibilities!

Now, only if I can update my entire blog entries (all 322 of them) by tagging them…

Meebo

Meebo: bringing IM to Web 2.0

 

iBook — why or why not?

Can someone please tell me why I should not get a iBook?