Category Archives: Geek

Heavypedia?

…or at least a bit heavier: Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that allows anyone to contribute articles, is tightening its rules for submitting entries following the disclosure that it ran a piece falsely implicating a man in the Kennedy assassinations. Wikipedia … Continue reading

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Dumb All Over

„My dear grandson Bwana-Linth, I hereby express my will: thou shalst be the one to post the link of this really fine blog called Dumb All Over. Barry, thy Grandfather” That’s how it happened. Seems to be a new page … Continue reading

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The Golden Ticket (2)

It’s Gmail-mania all over again: wordpress.com has given me another invite for a free weblog (see mine, shamefully gathering dust). Want one? Your mom? Your grandma? Your significant Other One? Bueller? Just drop a note in the comments saying what … Continue reading

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Jazz Is Not Dead…

iTunes as a hazard to the preservation of jazz: The digital music era should offer listeners more information about jazz, not less. The stakes are high. If jazz fragments into millions of digital files, future generations could be left with … Continue reading

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The Golden Ticket

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I entered my email at wordpress.com in hopes of getting an invite for a free WP-powered weblog. Lo and behold: today I received The Golden Ticket meaning that now I’ve … Continue reading

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Yes Sirree!

The iPod arrived yesterday and, by Jove, I swear it’s a thing of absolute beauty — enough to wet anyone’s pants. Been importing music and playing with its features since. Suppose you’d be going on a transatlantic flight to South … Continue reading

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RSS Feed Change

For you whopping 3 people out there who follow KUR via some RSS-aggregator or other, you’ll be glad to know the feed has been changed to display full entries. You’ll never have to visit this site again! (The rest of … Continue reading

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iPod, You Pod

Well today I could no longer resist the sheer beauty and functionality of the iPod, so I went and bought me one. Not the Shuffle (1Gb, ha!), nor the iPod nano (4Gb, haha!) and certainly not the iPod U2 (U2, … Continue reading

Posted in Geek, Music | 40 Comments

Del.icio.us

Late to the party as ever, I’ve just started to play around with del.icio.us, the much praised “online social bookmarking service”. And that’s what it is, basically. You “bookmark” sites you come across, tag them with keywords (e.g. zappa), others … Continue reading

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About Time YOU Had A Dot Com

Dreamhost, the people that have been hosting KUR for almost 4 years now, have given me a $10 gift certificate that I can either apply on my own account or give out to someone else. If anyone’s interested to sign … Continue reading

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Software That Thinks You’re A Jerk

The software, created at America’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will ask: “This person is acting like a jerk, do you want to hang up?” Inventor Anmol Madan said his software could herald a revolution in phone etiquette. Um, right. I … Continue reading

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I Spy With My Little iSight

… and there was much rejoicing as The Imaginary Publisher and The Good Doctor successfully installed the Apple iSight webcam! Yes indeed folks: it is now possible for you to bust my balls about the wiki chatwise while looking me … Continue reading

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Store Wars

May the Farm Be With You. Brilliant. (via the booge)

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Burning That DVD

Burning That DVD: The crux is, how does one go about burning a DVD. Are there burners that are better than others? Is a specific format required to produce a functional DVD? And what about software: is one package preferred … Continue reading

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