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Rob Schonberger
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OpenOfficeMouse: The Multi-Button Application Mouse for OpenOffice.org - http://openofficemouse.com/pr11060...
"Orvieto, Italy, November 6, 2009: In partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, WarMouse announced the release of the OpenOfficeMouse, the first multi-button application mouse designed for the world's leading open-source office productivity suite. With a revolutionary and patented design featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and support for as many as 52 key commands, the OpenOfficeMouse is intended to provide a faster and more efficient user interface for OpenOffice.org applications such as Writer and Calc than the conventional icons, pull-down menus, and hotkeys presently permit."
- Rob Schonberger
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The OpenOffice Mouse - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
The Cost of Latency - http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009...
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Fast is better than slow. Sometimes even at the expense of correct.
- Joel Webber
Yeah, speed is the main reason I'm not as happy with my TiVo as I was years ago. I don't care about all these features they're adding. I just want it to be fast. Speed is also why I'm not happy with newer TVs, or cable boxes. Changing channels used to be instantaneous. Now it's sooooo slow. Speed is also a big part of why I'm using my iPhone instead of my G1.
- Amit Patel
@Amit, re iPhone vs. G1: Exactly -- Android's definitely getting there, but I feel like work remains to be done on making all the user interactions feel snappy, especially the way they do blitting of the app list and the home screen. Apple definitely got that right from day one.
- Joel Webber
Sometimes, Android seems to suffer from GC lag. However, iPhone lags sometimes too when some background process is working hard (switching from 3g to Wifi, or saving data to memory). I've had times when I had to reboot the iPhone. Both TiVo and AppleTV are way underpowered and irritating. I'm a big TiVo user, but the UI is so fricken slow sometimes, it really lags when an HD channel is having reception problems, and re-ordering scheduler items sometimes takes MINUTES while the UI is frozen.
- Ray Cromwell
In Which These Are All The Hot Places In San Francisco - http://thisrecording.com/today...
UCLA: livers for sale! - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
Bikini Leia and stunt double catch some rays - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
DECC | Sydney Harbour National Park - Accommodation - http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/Nationa...
"Enjoy the natural ambience of Sydney Harbour National Park with a stay in one of the park's tranquil and historic harbourside accommodations."
- Rob Schonberger
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Teaching the Tax Office a lesson - http://www.smh.com.au/nationa...
"UNIVERSITY undergraduates will be able to claim educational expenses as a tax deduction after a former student had a landmark win against the Tax Office in the Federal Court yesterday."
- Rob Schonberger
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Happy Days by Sam Beckett At the Belvoir - http://www.schonberger.org/2009...
Cheap US fares likely to end as Virgin, Delta tie-up approved - http://www.smh.com.au/travel...
"VIRGIN Blue has gained a much-needed boost after the competition watchdog gave tentative approval for it pursuing a tie-up with Delta Air Lines on flights between Australia and the US."
- Rob Schonberger
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In Defense of Laptops, MP3 Players, and Gadgets in Airline Cockpits - http://www.fastcompany.com/blog...
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Better the broken Windows than life with the Mac monks - http://www.smh.com.au/digital...
"I admit it: I'm a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can't control it. It's Apple. I don't like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers. Awful people. Awful. Stop showing me your iPhone. Stop stroking your Macbook. Stop telling me to get one."
- Rob Schonberger
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Daughter hit with car driven by father for being 'too Westernised' dies - http://www.smh.com.au/world...
"A 20-year-old woman from Iraq whose father allegedly hit her with his car because she had become too Westernised has died from her injuries, authorities said."
- Rob Schonberger
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One Hundred Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (Part 1) - You’re the Boss Blog - NYTimes.com - http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
"Herewith is a modest list of dos and don’ts for servers at the seafood restaurant I am building. Veteran waiters, moonlighting actresses, libertarians and baristas will no doubt protest some or most of what follows."
- Rob Schonberger
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'Marry single mums instead of young virgin girls' - http://www.smh.com.au/world...
""Muslim men usually like young girls or virgins as their additional wives, so I suggest instead of taking these young virgin girls, why don't they marry the single mothers as their second or third wife?" she said."
- Rob Schonberger
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Kill your limits, not the speed, groups say - http://www.smh.com.au/drive...
"They say speed restrictions that keep motorists driving on rural roads for long periods may increase the likelihood of an accident occurring as this pushes up levels of fatigue, boredom and frustration."
- Rob Schonberger
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Arnold Schwarzenegger | Californian Governor | Tom Ammiano | F--- you: Schwarzenegger sends lawmaker special message - http://www.smh.com.au/world...
"Like a find-the-word puzzle, the second message was visible by stringing together the first letter of each line down the left-hand margin. It consisted of a common four-letter vulgarity followed by the letters "y-o-u"."
- Rob Schonberger
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Tell me about the toaster in your kitchen.
Mine is a $13 toaster I bought in Bing Lee 2 years ago; They basically threw it in for nothing since I bought a few thousand dollars worth of kitchen appliances. The whole 'you're buying an oven and a dishwasher? Sure, have a free toaster.' thing worked.
- Rob Schonberger
As a wedding gift, we got a Dualit restaurant grade 2-slice toaster. It looks a bit art-deco and a bit like something that you would find in a retro 50's toy store, but it's built like a tank and can be run all day without breaking down.
- Bill Strathearn
And does it do anything fancy?
- Rob Schonberger
from email
Bill, my parents have one of those 50's style toasters that's built like a tank. They got it as a wedding gift in 1957.
- Gary Burd
Rob: The once nice feature of Dualits is that you can manually raise and lower the toast while the heating element is still on, allowing you to check the darkness without having to kill the heat. I think the ability to run for hours at a time, without catching fire is also a nice feature, even if I'm only heating pop-tarts for 2 mins at a time.
- Bill Strathearn
now *thats *a nice feature. I find toasters so funny because I see $10 toasters and $100 toasters, and they're pretty much almost the same thing. That feature sounds handy, though; It's just something that people have in their homes, and don't replace a toaster until it's broken. One friend of mine has a toaster with a built in egg boiler / poacher in it, for automated breakfast making. Thats the cutest thing I know of.
- Rob Schonberger
from email
I can't find any $10 toasters! All toasters nowadays cost $50 and have a built-in spaceship! One thing which most toasters don't do is to let you see how the toast is doing. Sad.
- Jonas S Karlsson
You can't find any what?
- Rob Schonberger
from email
We have a toaster oven. I think it was like $25 at Target? It has 2 racks and, depending on the size of the bread, can do 4+ pieces at once. I don't think I'd purchase anything other than toaster oven...for not much more space you can do a lot more. Things like pizza or fried food reheats really well in the toaster oven and faster than it would take in the full sized oven.
- Benjamin Golub
I've never had a toaster oven; I wonder... Must do tests for my next one. Woot. Also, pizza? Awesome.
- Rob Schonberger
from email
Drive-by shooting at Bondi Beach - http://www.smh.com.au/nationa...
Infographic of the Day: It's a Small World, Afterall - http://www.fastcompany.com/blog...
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Cube Marketplace - Wild Mugolio Pine Syrup - http://www.cubemarketplace.com/p-923-w...
"Oh Mugolio! How weird and wonderful you are! You my friend are going to help me stump every snobby foodie I know! HAHAHAHA! It'll be great. The conversation will go a little something like this:"
- Rob Schonberger
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Woollahra railway station, Sydney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"Woollahra Station is possibly the best example of a 'ghost station' in the entire metropolitan area of Sydney. The sight of a largely completed husk of a heavy railway station surrounded by over-hanging trees, expensive inner-Sydney properties and curving and pleasant suburban streets is unusual for Sydney. It is all the more striking as all of the other stations on the Eastern Suburbs Line and indeed in the Sydney CBD are substantively underground."
- Rob Schonberger
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The hardest part of writing is … - http://www.schonberger.org/2009...
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