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Geek’s Dream Girl’s Top 10 Articles of 2010

3 January 2011 by 1 Comment
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Your clicks, retweets, and Facebookings have spoken! Here are the top 10 articles of 2010 by traffic: 1. Needles of Knitting +5: Using The Craft Skill To Its Best Advantage 2. GenCon 2010 Update: Castle Ravenloft Board Game 3. Coping With Being Single: Ur Doin’ It Wrong 4. Brainless Act Leads to Smart Decision 5. LiveBlogging: Dungeons & Dragons Experience 2010 (DDXP) 6. Top 5 Anime Speech Patterns that Drive Us Nuts 7. 5 Gosh-Honest Reasons Why Your Dating Life … [Read more...]

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Walking on Air: J’s New Laptop

29 December 2010 by 4 Comments
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A little over a year ago, I contracted the popup virus of doom and made the switch from Windows to Linux.  For the past year I've been using Ubuntu - and enjoying it; I still recommend it to family and friends.   However, shortly before Thanksgiving, almost one year exactly since the Linux switch, my laptop threw a new curveball at me: it was dying, and soon. The problems were numerous and growing: the wireless receiver had decided to work only when it felt like it, for example; the … [Read more...]

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Brainless Act Leads to Smart Decision

10 February 2010 by 9 Comments
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I was about 14 years old when some of my friends first got into Linux - gosh, that was over ten years ago.  I understood that Linux was something alternative and therefore cool; it was the grungy, smarter brother of straight-laced and blustering Windows.  It was also way over my head at the time; I didn't even have the Internet, and my family's last computer was a Commodore 64.  So I would nod with vague understanding at phrases like GIMP and RedHat and smile at cute little penguins and … [Read more...]

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