Author Archives: Dustmite

Netflix CEO clueless?

I just read an ABC Nightline interview article with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings regarding the recent controversy with package and price changes. In case you are unaware of all the hubbub, basically Netflix raised their rates in early 2011 and … Continue reading

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Is Rick Warren right or wrong?

I will assume that some visitors will find this post searching for information on Rick Warren. Well let me just address the title of this blog post right away. I don’t know if Rick Warren is right or wrong. You … Continue reading

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Picture This | V-Day Flowers

My father-in-law once told me that the great thing about buying flowers for your wife is that you can photograph them.  So that’s what I did with my wife’s Valentine’s day flowers.  I shot these with a Canon Rebel XT, … Continue reading

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Picture This | Ducks

It’s not the warmest where I live.  You could say we only have two seasons, winter and summer.  Between those two it is more often winter than summer around here.  Even though it is still winter and even though just … Continue reading

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Picture This | Flowers

I received a digital camera as a birthday / Christmas gift this year and now am trying to learn how to take pictures.  This is not as easy as one might think, but it is proving a bit fun. One … Continue reading

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The Power of Free

This is a great 15 minute TED.com video where Johanna Blakley discusses the lessons from the fashion industries free culture.  These lessons can be applied to so many different aspects of life, culture and business. Related articles by Zemanta The … Continue reading

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Straight to Docky

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Docky

It appears that Docky was made a separate project from Gnome Do which also means what I had initially installed and posted about was using an older version.  So I took some advise from posters on another site, and took … Continue reading

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Gnome Do brings OSX Dock to Linux

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Docky

I am a PC, Mac, and Linux user.  At night I dual boot between Vista and Ubuntu and during the day I use a Mac almost exclusively..  As a result, there are  many things I like about using my Mac … Continue reading

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The other side of pro-choice

I was reading the blog post “Hypocritical, Irresponsible and Seriously Profane” over at “Sacred & Profane“.  Like my last post, Heidi was talking about the Hypocrisy of pro-choice people towards those who choose to have large families.  One of the … Continue reading

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Po-choice political hypocrisy

Lately I have been acknowledging (to myself) the high level of hypocrisy from the left.  “They” want the right to criticize others, but how dare you criticize or question them.  “They” want freedom of speech, but how dare you think … Continue reading

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