when awake » technology http://whenawake.com Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:19:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Digital Distractions http://whenawake.com/2009/09/digital-distractions/ http://whenawake.com/2009/09/digital-distractions/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:10:39 +0000 admin http://whenawake.com/?p=379 The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions

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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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.

]]> http://whenawake.com/2009/08/content-management-system/feed/ 1 Things your kids will never know http://whenawake.com/2009/07/things-your-kids-will-never-know/ http://whenawake.com/2009/07/things-your-kids-will-never-know/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:59:23 +0000 admin http://whenawake.com/?p=207 Photo by Sunside

Of Wired’s 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About, eight things on the list elude me.

  1. Using jumpers to set IRQs
  2. Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it
  3. Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID
  4. Archie searches
  5. Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet
  6. Starbuck being a man
  7. A Marathon bar
  8. Omni magazine

(photo taken by sunside on flickr)

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