Archives Sept. 22, 2015
Fire Tablet, wow, that's kinda pointless
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Tuxedo.
We happened to win a Kindle Fire HDX tablet at an event. Since we've been talking about getting the kids a tablet for a while I thought "yay, sorted"... until they actually tried it.
There are no apps for the thing. Or, rather, the apps the kids actually use, YouTube, various games, Google Maps, etc, ...
Why did I feel a desire to open Skype?
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Vindaloo.
For some reason I've felt the need to open Skype for the past day. That's weird, as I never use Skype (I generally use Google Hangouts). Apparently I skimmed over an article on their outage and it triggered some neuron that said "remember Skype, you used to use that, maybe you should click on it"... ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.