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It’s A Binary World 2.0

Eric’s insights on politics, technology, free software, photography and everything else

Happy Birthday Firefox!

Eric Mesa | November 9, 2009

I can’t believe Firefox has been around for five years!  I remember first being introduced to tabs and it totally changing the way I surf the web.  Back then it was a plucky upstart and didn’t even work with many websites that had been coded specifically for Internet Explorer.  Now it has around 20% market [...]

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Tetris: An Introspective Review

Eric Mesa | October 7, 2009

Tetris is the first video game I was unable to shut off on command.  Players of Sid Meier’s Civilization are familiar with the problem of “one more turn”, similar to the bookworm’s “one more page”.  Tetris was my first “one more turn” game.  I first played Tetris when I was five or six and received [...]

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Getting into Geo-Tagging

Eric Mesa | May 24, 2009

(I originally wrote most of this on Thursday, 21 May)
I can’t explain to you the thrill and excitement I get from geo-tagging my photos.  I don’t mean that the thrill is so large as to defy explanation; rather that I can’t articulate what it is about geo-tagging my photos that excites me so much.  Perhaps [...]

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The Domo Meme

Eric Mesa | March 11, 2009

There’s something about this little, brown, cube monster that people love.  I first came across Domo when chatting on AIM with my high school friend, Lawrence Kwan.  He had it as his buddy icon.  I asked him what the brown square with the mouth was and he directed me to a website with an animation.  [...]

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Review: Roku Box

Eric Mesa | February 11, 2009

I’ve had the Roku Box for a few months now.  It costs $99 and I bought it for one simple reason:  my wife and I object to having to use Windows and Internet Explorer to watch Netflix’s Instant Programs.  As a secondary reason, we’re not in college anymore and we object to having to watch [...]

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Why there are over 2 dozen music players

Eric Mesa | November 25, 2008

People often groan when they hear of someone making another game of Tetris, Window Manager, or audio program.  After all, people ask, “Do we really need another?  Why can’t you just contribute to fixing annoying bug X in gTetris/KDE/xmms?”  I’ve always been on the side of the argument that said – “So what!  They’re doing [...]

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Neuros OSD First Impressions

Eric Mesa | October 16, 2008

The following was live-blogged on 25 Jul 2008:
Got my Neuros OSD today via UPS!  w00t w00t!  I’ve been lusting after this since it was featured in Linux Format Magazine last month.  (or was it two months ago?)  I unpacked the contents and skimmed through the quick start guide.  Then I hooked it up in my [...]

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Moonlight – what’s the big deal?

Eric Mesa | October 14, 2008

Hardly a day goes by that I don’t see an article on Linux Today about Moonlight and what a horrible person Miguel de Icaza is. So I thought I’d go ahead and do some exploration of what’s going on with Moonlight and Silverlight. First of all, what’s Silverlight? Check out the Silverlight [...]

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Happy 25th Birthday Gnu!

Eric Mesa | September 27, 2008

The GNU Software Project to provide a wholly free operating system turns 25 today! Check out this great video showing British superstar Stephen Fry .  Thanks to rms, Linus Torvalds, Aaron Siego, Miguel de Icaza and others who have worked hard to give us a free operating system that we can tweak and that [...]

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Micro-blogging: One Month Later

Eric Mesa | August 24, 2008

It’s been about a month since I signed up for a bunch of micro-blogging websites. So what do I think after about a month? Let me start off with Twitter.

In my first look at the micro-blogs I had some pretty good feelings about Twitter. That has basically carried over for the past [...]

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A Macro-blog Post about Micro-blogging

Eric Mesa | July 14, 2008

I’ve known about micro-blogging for 1-2 years now – ever since I first started hearing about Twitter. Up until now I’ve been vehemently against the whole micro-blogging trend. To begin with, it requires anyone who wants to keep up with my writing to check yet another website! On top of that, I [...]

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Twitter-like Post: State of the Web – Summer 2008

Eric Mesa | July 10, 2008

Someone with a bit of artistic creativity has decided to create an illustrated view of all the big news of the year.  I like it so much, I can’t wait to see his work no Fall 2008 and so on.
Check it out, here.

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On LinuxToday a few days ago

Eric Mesa | June 29, 2008

Once again I was pretty excited to find that I had been aggregated onto LinuxToday for this blog post. The funny thing is that I almost didn’t make that blog post as I was contemplating it for over a week and usually if I wait that long, the blog post doesn’t get written.

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The Effects of a Cornell Graduation

Eric Mesa | June 20, 2008

As I’ve mentioned before, although I think it was on It’s A Binary World 1.0, a Cornell education does something strange to you.  Like seeing vectors when speeding up and slowing down your car.  Or in the way in which you explain why Dan will be escorting two bride’s maids at Phil’s wedding:
(09:00:29 PM) Danny: [...]

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The Neuros OSD

Eric Mesa | June 13, 2008

The Neuros OSD is a device created by Neuros Technology.  This is a device I am REALLY excited about buying.  I first heard about it in the latest issue of Linux Format Magazine, which gave it a rating of 9/10.  What’s so awesome about this device?  It runs Linux!  “So what?” You may [...]

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