I bought a PC with Windows on it today… Yes, you read that right. It’s to test out websites and such, so I haven’t converted. I was able to configure Synergy well enough that I can use my white Apple keyboard and regular Logitech mouse which makes things pretty easy.
Both my laptop and (new) desktop connect into my flat panel since it has both DVI and VGA. With the flick of a wrist to switch Synergy and a touch of a button on the screen I can switch platforms. Very cool and no need to buy a KVM.
As for the machine itself, it’s nothing special. Good deal for the money though.
Plus, now I’ll be able to try out that Google IM client :P.
I’m a big fan of Digg, but as the site grows it is suffering from trolls. This can be seen by both the poor selection of links submitted (and more surprisingly also Dugg) and the intelligence in the comment sections. It is really reminding me of Slashdot.
Here’s a great example of comments that just serve no purpose. There are over a dozen people that mention the same feat was done on the show Mythbusters. Discounting the fact that Mythbusters only gets a few viewers each week (it’s hardly ever on rating charts and is very lucky if it pulls a 2 share), the mere fact that everyone felt the need to point this out again really rings of Slashdot. If you’re bored, here’s another example.
I think there should be a feature that lets readers filter out comments from commenters with no stories promoted to the front page. Much like the ratings at Slashdot allow you to filter out the riff raff. This isn’t going to curb poor links being submitted, but it will help the signal-to-noise ratio for registered users. Then again, there is already a ratings feature but it doesn’t seem to be used (unlike at /. where it’s what actually powers the filter).
Just an idea.
Interesting word trivia here, consonant letters can be spelled out. These are valid words according to the dictionary and are playable in Scrabble. Vowels don’t have spellings that I can find.
I think it’s a little bogus that these spellings include the letter they are spelling, but I didn’t create the rules.
bee, cee, dee, ef, gee, aitch, jay, kay, el, em, en, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee
I first learned of this several years back after seeing a kid in the National Spelling Bee go home after getting confronted with spelling the letter H. He/she had never heard of being able to spell letters and was totally blindsided.
UPDATE: I see that Robot Wisdom has asked, “Which two consonants can be spelled without using themselves?”
I’m having a lot of fun over at GoogleRumors. A while back I stopped following Apple news as closely and Google has really taken over my newshare. Not that Apple isn’t interesting to me, but too many of the news stories (and rumors) have to do with really boring things like iBook speed updates and iPod related news. I still use (and love) Macs, but Google is just plain more interesting to read about these days. That is until the Intel switch gets closer I suppose.
