http://www.peterfilias.com The ramblings of Peter Filias, aka, Computer Ninja. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:15:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This jumped up on google.com a bit ago...a link to what Barack Obama and John McCain are reading. I wasn't surprised by their lists. Barack: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16774216154071822567 McCain: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/00430365334900592587 To me, DailyKOS is like DailyPOS and Huffington Post is just plain garbage. I won't even link to them. I was glad to see that McCain read The ... http://www.peterfilias.com/2008/08/18/what-the-candidates-are-reading/ A few years ago, while in business school, we wrote a paper on Apple's growth and their opportunity to take their 3-4% market share and turn it into a double digit market share. A few years later (now), it seems they are getting there. The popularity of their Intel-based MacBook ... http://www.peterfilias.com/2008/08/08/mac-os-x-approaches-8-market-share/ I can't believe this. I'm having an adult (at least I think it's an educated adult I'm talking to) conversation with my friend from high school. I'll leave his name out to save him embarrassment. My friend: I'll take it off your bill! Your in BYATCH!!! Me: And it's "you're" in. My friend: Nope, what country ... http://www.peterfilias.com/2008/08/04/your-vs-youre/ xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall MunroeYou'd have to be a real geek to get this one. Thanks to Joe for showing me this. I couldn't stop laughing for a few minutes. http://www.peterfilias.com/2008/08/04/this-had-me-rofling/ As I sit here trying to fix this computer that has the buritos and XP Security Center, I figures I'd try this out. http://www.peterfilias.com/2008/07/30/post-from-iphone/ I've been meaning to post this on my blog, but had forgotten to do so as I emailed it out to a handful of friends.Here is the story:Someone who works at a University in Eastern Washington was reading the CNN/Money article about the top 100 places to live in 2008.He ... http://www.peterfilias.com/2008/07/21/benjamin-and-i-are-famous/ I used this the other day when I sent Alex a link. Nice to read about it a few days later!TinyURL finally adds vanity URLs | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET http://www.peterfilias.com/2008/07/08/tinyurls-adds-custom-urls/ Paul Stamatiou points out that his internet connection was actually being maxed out with using 802.11g. He had to upgrade his network to 802.11n to get the full throughput his internet service provider offered.Maybe Comcast will get us DOCSIS 3.0 pretty soon so we can at least have 30Mbit/s connectivity.His ... http://www.peterfilias.com/2008/06/28/i-wish-i-had-a-connection-this-fast/ Good to see that the folks at Mozilla have made great strides to make Firefox a fantastic browser when it comes to memory management. It used to be that Firefox was a nasty memory pig.Firefox 3 Memory Benchmarks and Comparison http://www.peterfilias.com/2008/06/26/i-love-firefox/ I have been fascinated by HDR images I've seen over there years, and I've always wanted to try to create some myself. This one, I took with my handy-dandy Canon SD1000. I just used exposure compensation by putting the camera in manual mode and mapping the print button to the ... http://www.peterfilias.com/2008/06/23/my-first-hdr-image/