Dave McCandless’ Hierarchy of Digital Distractions is well thought out, and oh-so-true. Now if only he had added GChat/AIM/RSS feeds…
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Modx, a new content management system
Being the nerd that I am, I was excited today when introduced to Modx, an open-source PHP-based CMS to develop websites. Although WordPress currently reigns supreme among CMS users (including myself) today, Modx seems like an ideal solution to launch a non-blog site. Anyone have experience using it? I think I’ll try install it on the Longitude‘s server and give it a whirl.
Things your kids will never know
Of Wired‘s 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About, eight things on the list elude me.
- Using jumpers to set IRQs
- Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it
- Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID
- Archie searches
- Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet
- Starbuck being a man
- A Marathon bar
- Omni magazine
(photo taken by sunside on flickr)