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Monday 30th August 2010

Started as a post on a tethered iTelephone

You know what’s interesting? Tethered internet. Here’s a long story to read if you have nothing better to do.

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Friday 30th July 2010

Perl 6 Rakudo Star

So it looks as though Perl 6 might be coming soon… again!

#!/usr/bin/env perl -wT
use strict;

&sayWooHoo("again");

sub sayWooHoo {
    print ("Hey, 6 might be coming soon, $_[0]!");
}

My first job out of high school was writing Perl programs. Was the happiest time of my life, because university hadn’t crushed my spirit yet. Perl is awesome. CPAN is awesome! And don’t believe what they say, it is possible to write Perl programs that you and others can understand later, provided you follow the conventions :).

Thursday 29th July 2010

Rubénerd Fun Fact #96 and #97: Santana

Santana

#96: When I was a kid, I called him Carlos Sultana.

#97: My parents never used to correct me when I called him Carlos Sultana. Apparently they found it amusing.

Awesome photo courtesy of Paul Reed Smith Guitars. And for once, a Fun Fact here is true. Well, not to suggest I was full of crap when I wrote the others. For one, I type them. Gracias.

Wednesday 28th July 2010

No more Apple Cinema Displays

With their launch of new iMacs and Mac Pros yesterday, Apple are perhaps copping the most flack for discontinuing the 24 and 30 inch Cinema Displays. Presented for your consideration are my thoughts, interspersed with plenty of pointless nostalgia. Is that how you spell "interspersed"? Doesn’t look right.

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Monday 12th July 2010

Goodbye Singapore

Saying goodbye to Singapore

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Tuesday 29th June 2010

The saga of finding old Windows 98 discs!

Here’s a little narrative story thing that actually happened, as opposed to all those other narrative story things that kinda happened, but didn’t. Can’t think of any off the top of my head, but they probably have to do with grilled cheese sandwiches, somehow.

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Wednesday 23rd June 2010

Throwing away our childhoods

Yes, that’s a photo I took of my dad in our rental car with a giant soft toy rhino head! I had that on my bedroom wall since I was a little kid, now we’re getting rid of him.

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Sunday 23rd May 2010

Nostalgia at Windows 3.0 turning 20

Windows 3.0 turns 20 today

It’s official, Microsoft’s breakout Windows 3.0 “operating system” turned 20 today. Well, really it was yesterday but we’ll pretend it was today so I can write this post. Mikuru looks horrified at it running on the desktop ;).

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Saturday 08th May 2010

Netscape icon swap nostalgia

I’ve decided to replace all the icons for my Mozilla browser installs with the icon from Netscape Navigator in a fit of nostalgia. Technically, it’s not completely a falsehood, kinda.

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Friday 07th May 2010

Microsoft's consumer space woes

Madobe Nanami, Windows 7-tan

David Olsen on Twitter said something this morning which I think is endemic of the reason why Microsoft is being crushed in the consumer space and can’t understand why. For once, a more serious post here on Rubénerd.com!

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Dedicated to my groovy late mum Debra Schade.