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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Monthly Archives: June 2007
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Power of Information 2007-06-24
This week on the Power of Information, Derek and I discuss Blockbuster choosing Blu-Ray, Google Powerpoint Viewer, and ways to watch TV online. We also talk about saving money using Firefox add-ons, some free games, and I discuss some typical photography mistakes. All this and more on this week’s Power of Information. Continue reading
Running Compiz Fusion
I made the switch from Beryl to Compiz-Fusion just now. Overall I like the fact that I have some of my favorite Beryl plugins in Compiz and that there is finally a Compiz Settings Manager so that I can easily set up the plugins to my liking. Continue reading
EMI Reports DRM-Free Sales are Doing Well
If the sales continue to do well, more labels might follow suit and that would be fantastic. I know personally there have been a few albums I was willing to purchase off of iTunes but they were not from EMI so the were not DRM-Free. This made me consider getting a new eMusic account so that I could get the albums DRM-Free. I am pretty sure I am not the only one making a decision like this. Having DRM-Free music is important to me, especially more so since I am using Linux as my primary operating system. Continue reading
Songs & Such: Welcome to Struggleville by Vigilantes of Love
In our continuing look at the songs of Bill Mallonee, we are going to spend a little time this week looking at the song “Welcome to Struggleville” from the “Welcome to Struggleville” album. The song, inspired by Edward Knippers’ paiting “The Prize” is a vivid description of a place that really only exists inside someone’s mind. Continue reading
Anti-Homeschooling aka Ignorance is Bliss (I Guess)
I can always count on Digg to point me at something I can commentate on. For this week’s commentary, I want to look at this diatribe against home schooling.
For starters, I was home schooled for my last three years of high school. Three years before that, I was enrolled in small community based private school. And to top it all off I was in public schools from elementary to middle school. So I was actively involved in all three of the most popular forms of education. I met people that I work with while home schooling. I met my “life long” friend in middle school. I still talk to people I went to elementary school with. Continue reading →