http://www.shanebishop.net/wp transparent barriers to communication Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:31:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Microsoft launched a campaign that promises to provide 8 meals to starving Americans for every time someone downloads their new browser, Internet Explorer 8. Sounds great, on the face of things. So how much is that exactly? $1.15. This is in America, right? Let's do the math here. They donate ... http://www.shanebishop.net/wp/2009/06/15/shameful A couple days ago, the Fedora project released their latest effort, Fedora 11. The IT guy from the high school had been giving me a hard time about not trying harder to like Fedora. I had been hearing good things about Fedora 11, so I figured I'd give it a ... http://www.shanebishop.net/wp/2009/06/12/hat-trick Last night, my dad said something inspiring. He was helping me pick rocks out of our flower garden, and as he went to leave, I thanked him again. And he said, "You're welcome. I just want to try and be helpful like my dad (my grandpa)." As most people in ... http://www.shanebishop.net/wp/2009/05/27/helpful A while back, Ubuntu released their latest update, Jaunty Jackalope. Yes, a Jackalope... Anyway, I usually wait a while to update my home computer because our internet connection is slower there (than at work). A couple nights ago, I decided the time was right, so I started the download and ... http://www.shanebishop.net/wp/2009/05/27/phonic As many of you might have noticed, I've been sick lately. Normally, that's not blog-worthy, even if it is a rare occassion. However, this morning was the first time I had been to church in three weeks. I was up front playing guitar with the worship team and started to ... http://www.shanebishop.net/wp/2009/03/29/struck A bunch of my family members use Multiply for posting blogs, book reviews, photos, and links. It's kind of like Facebook or Myspace, but slimmed down, and geared more towards blogging. Several of them have recently joined Facebook, and yesterday, my aunt asked me an interesting question. Is there any ... http://www.shanebishop.net/wp/2009/03/28/multiply The other day I found out about earth hour. You can go read about it, but I'll give you the short version. At 8:30 P.M. turn off all your lights for one hour. They are aiming for one billion people participating this year (last year was 50 million). I'm not ... http://www.shanebishop.net/wp/2009/03/28/earth-hour Some things just beg for a blog post. Like the stupidity of telling malware and virus writers exactly how to load their programs in safe mode. Thanks, McAfee. That was brilliant. Safe mode is typically the last resort for removing stubborn viruses, and I've only ever seen one that did ... http://www.shanebishop.net/wp/2009/03/17/safe Many of you probably already know that I use Linux. One of the awesome things about linux is choice. It was also the mantra of the first Linux distribution that hooked me on Linux--Gentoo. One of the choices that I made early on, was to use GNOME for my 'Desktop ... http://www.shanebishop.net/wp/2009/03/17/bloat Dear FedEx, The lovely country selector you've implemented is broken. See, not everyone has the Arial font (yes, I use Linux, and Arial is a proprietary Windows font, so I'm out of luck there). This causes my browser to choose a different font that happens to be slightly larger than Arial. ... http://www.shanebishop.net/wp/2009/03/12/fedex