Category Archives: Geek

Google via SMS!

Posted on October 8, 2004 by Kevin

My love of all things Google continues. You can now Google via SMS via your cell phone. Cool…

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The Geek Test

Posted on September 22, 2004 by Kevin

A bunch of us here at DebtX just took the geek test at Innergeek.us. I knew I’d scored high, but I didn’t expect to be the biggest geek. I scored 40.0395%, which is “Major Geek”. One of the developers came close with 39.25049%, and as expected the non-engineers had sub-10% scores.

Update: Oops, I tied with one of the developers. Congrats, Zach. :-)

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H2G2 is Back on the Radio

Posted on September 21, 2004 by Kevin

The BBC is broadcasting a new “phase” of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on BBC 4.

Twenty-five years after the original radio series of Douglas Adams? The Hitchhiker?s Guide To The Galaxy exploded into the public consciousness, the further exploits of its bewildered hero, Arthur Dent, are being brought to life in their original medium and with the (mainly) original cast.

The last three books of the ?trilogy in five parts?, Life, The Universe And Everything; So Long And Thanks For All The Fish and Mostly Harmless, have been dramatised as two new series (none of them were previously produced for radio).

As the original two series were dubbed the Primary and Secondary Phases by Douglas Adams, these new series form the Tertiary, Quadrenary and Quintessential Phases.

Thanks to the wonders of digital technology, Douglas Adams himself can be heard playing the part of Agrajag.

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Changes in new Star Wars Trilogy DVDs

Posted on September 17, 2004 by Kevin

The Digital Bits has an interesting page that shows the changes made to the original Star Wars trilogy for its release on DVD.

Update: Ain’t it Cool News also has a good article on the subject.

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Finally – Edgar Rice Burroughs' "A Princess of Mars" on the Big Screen

Posted on September 16, 2004 by Kevin

Kerry Conran, director of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, is filming Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars. This is the first book of Burroughs’ excellent Martian Tales series.

Stanley Wiater’s review on Amazon.com describes the books quite well:

Although Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is justifiably famous as the creator of Tarzan of the Apes, that uprooted Englishman was not his only popular hero. Burroughs’s first sale (in 1912) was A Princess of Mars, opening the floodgates to one of the must successful–and prolific–literary careers in history. This is a wonderful scientific romance that perhaps can be best described as early science fiction melded with an epic dose of romantic adventure. A Princess of Mars is the first adventure of John Carter, a Civil War veteran who unexpectedly find himself transplanted to the planet Mars. Yet this red planet is far more than a dusty, barren place; it’s a fantasy world populated with giant green barbarians, beautiful maidens in distress, and weird flora and monstrous fauna the likes of which could only exist in the author’s boundless imagination. Sheer escapism of the tallest order, the Martian novels are perfect entertainment for those who find Tarzan’s fantastic adventures aren’t, well, fantastic enough. Although this novel can stand alone, there are a total of 11 volumes in this classic series of otherworldly, swashbuckling adventure.

I really hope he does the book justice.

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Want a Gmail account?

Posted on September 16, 2004 by Kevin

I have a few Gmail invites available. If you’d like an invite to use Gmail (Google’s new webmail service with 1 GB storage), just drop me an email at webmaster@jarnot.com.

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Tips for Naming Computers

Posted on September 1, 2004 by Kevin

Have a bunch of new computers that need names? Here are some handy tips for naming computers and names given to computers.

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And this was posted via SharpMT

Posted on August 25, 2004 by Kevin

In my quest for the perfect blog editor, I have also installed SharpMT on my desktop. Very positive impressions so far…

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Test of Pocket SharpMT

Posted on August 25, 2004 by Kevin

This entry was posted via my PocketPC using Pocket SharpMT software.

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GMail

Posted on June 24, 2004 by Kevin

Finally got myself a much-coveted GMail account. Too bad I had to cheat and buy one off of eBay ($0.99).

For some reason I feel like a better man now.

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