Author Archives: The Crutis

I nearly tore my left arm off to use as a club for smashing my computer tonight. A while ago at work we began migrating to active directory, and so my laptop got added to the corporate domain. As part … Continue reading →

A while ago, I signed up for Plaxo, but never got interested in the service. It was all too closed up for me when compared to services like Twitter or FriendFeed. Then today I get an email that reads: A … Continue reading →

A few months ago the folks at Google proudly announced, “we’ve linked up Reader with Google Talk,” and with one fell swoop stole something valuable from their Reader users: control. We lost the ability to exchange our shared items feeds … Continue reading →

So I began thinking the other day about the number of usernames and passwords I’ve collected over the past few months and remembered hearing something about OpenID. After some checking, I found that blogger, Plaxo, wordpress, and possibly other services … Continue reading →

I’ve really been enjoying the new Nine Inch Nails album tonight. I think I’m going to do the five dollar download tomorrow to get all four volumes. It’s all instrumental, and really exploratory. Also worth mentioning is the creativity behind … Continue reading →

Anyone else sick of the installshield update manager?

Yes, it looks pretty much like the old place, except for the fancy new URL. Welcome to The Crutis. *Trivia: Crutis is a misspelling of my name from an IM conversation I had years ago with a friend from school … Continue reading →

I’ve been trying off and on for a while now to give myself a really good excuse to dig into Ruby on Rails, especially with the 1.9 release of Ruby and the 2.0 release of Rails. I finally registered a … Continue reading →

New forms of communication I’m becoming addicted to: RSS (Google Reader, Google Shared Stuff, Google Shared Calendars, Friends’ updates from Digg) Social SMS Messaging (Twitter) Social Networks (Facebook, Orkut) I raised the limit on my out of network text messages … Continue reading →