You know how there are some things that people are way too proud of? That they buy T-shirts for and spout off about endlessly? Things like iPhones and wine and serving in the military.
I’m guilty of that on so many levels.
This short post just serves as a confession, to get the guilt of it all off my chest, and to remind myself to wean myself of these things.
Sometimes it’s good to take a step back, analyze ourselves, and give ourselves the blunt, honest truth.
So here are 6 things I obsess over and am way too proud of and talk way too much about, annoyingly.
- Coffee. Well, I don’t actually talk about this much, but I do love coffee, and I know that coffee geeks are very annoying. We make such a big deal about how we HAVE to have our coffee, and what our favorite coffee is, and how much we drink. I’ve actually drastically reduced my coffee consumption, but I’m still a coffee geek at heart. Boy are we annoying.
- Macs. I’m actually a recovering Macaholic. And Mac fans can be the most annoying on earth (sorry, fellow Mac fans, I love you all). I’m in between Macs right now, but I’ve been a fan since the 80s, and actually still have some geeky relics of my Mac addiction (including a very old (and hole-ridden) T-shirt with a picture of Clarus the Dogcow that says, of course, “Moof!”). God, what a geek I am.
- Gmail. I came late to the Gmail game, discovering it only a year and a half ago, when a friend of mine said, “Dude, why aren’t you using Gmail?” Now I can’t imagine living without it, and I annoyingly say to friends and family who are still using Hotmail or Yahoo or (gasp) Outlook, “Dude, why aren’t you using Gmail?” And then, when they tell me they haven’t even heard of it, I proceed to spout off for 10 minutes about the virtues of Gmail. And then I secretly consider disowning my friends and family for not knowing about Gmail. Apologies to Hotmail or Yahoo or Outlook fans — you guys are great.
- Firefox. I know that Firefox is all the rage, so many people who use the Internet regularly qualify as fellow Firefox freaks, but I’m still amazed by the vast numbers of people in this world who still use Internet Explorer, and worse yet, haven’t even heard of Firefox. My friends and family among them. And I try to get them to convert, as if I’m some kind of Firefox evangelist, going door to door. I’m not sure why this matters so much to me. But I’m seriously considering disowning my friends and family.
- Veganism. I’m not actually a full vegan, as I still eat some foods that have eggs or dairy, but I’m slowly transitioning to complete veganism and fully subscribe to the vegan philosophy. My favorite T-shirt, at the moment, is my worn Herbivore Cross T-shirt, which is so comfortable. People, of course, always ask me about it, and that gives me a chance to evangelize about veganism (while they smugly wave a greasy burger in front of my face). I think vegans and vegetarians are nearly as smug as meat eaters.
- Simplicity. I’ve been a fan of simplicity for a decade now, and I can safely call myself a minimalist. I would brag about a minimalist T-shirt, but I think that would just be a plain T-shirt with no logos or slogans (and I actually own a few like that). The thing is, I talk about simplicity to people I know too much, I think, and that’s just annoying.
What about you guys? Have any annoying fetishes that you talk too much about? Are you an evangelist about anything? Have geeky T-shirts that show off your fetishes? Let us know in the comments.
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March 25, 2010 | Filed under Online Service
We have previously shared with you a list of 14 icon search engine websites which allows you to search for nice icons to use as favicon, shortcut or software. Another important search engine that we think that it is also important is ebook in PDF. There are a lot of ebook in PDF format on the Internet and it contains useful information such as manual, guides and etc.
Searching for PDF using the normal search engine might be a little confusing and the results that you get can can have a mixed of normal websites as well. To help you search for the PDF ebook that you want with keyword, here are 22 PDF search engines that you can try:
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6. OpenPDF
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8. Data-Sheet
9. PDFFind
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]]> I had a comment on my blog (from Carthik, thus the honest reply) about “any compelling reason why I should switch” from MT to WordPress. I can provide plenty.
1) MT is commercialized – “too popular” can be a bad thing
2) Almost every consequential “plug-in” for MT is available for WordPress
3) WordPress has comment moderation built in, which translates to zero comment spam.
4) WordPress has a very supportive and extrememly active and zealous (and might I add, united) developer and support community.
5) MT is perl, WP is PHP (which can be good or bad)
6) You need to rebuild pages with MT, WP is all dynamic
7) In excess of just rebuilding pages, MT lags in trackbacks and pingbacks because of the rebuild
MT, in my opinion, can be a slight hinderance to the art of blog authoring. You can easily get lost in the deluge of plug-ins, settings and other frills. (I know this is the case from a couple of new bloggers I have helped setup with MT)
9) There is VERY active development in WP. We code new crap everyday!
10) WP 1.0 is powerful, fast, easy to customize and starting to get VERY well documented.
11) WP is put out by a bunch of people in their free time, not part of a corporation’s agenda. This gives WP freedom of choice.
12) WP spits out extremely standards compliant code
13) WP has a built-in blogroll feature (with recently updated blogs)
14) You can edit a post or a comment if you are looking at your own blog, much like a portal
15) Multiple categories per post MT has had that for a while, thanks Dennis and Michel
16) ATOM feed support MT 2.65 has ATOM support – thanks Frankie
17) Password Protected posts
18) By popular request, WP is free software
19) WP has built in XFN support
I am sure I will think of a bunch more while this is in the back of my head. I would LOVE to get some comments on this.
Here is the link to a features comparison between b2, WP0.72 and WP1.0 None of the features mentioned above are hacks. They are all part of the default installation of WordPress 1.0
Pssst Carthik: WP has an “import from MT” tool…
Please look at this list for a more detailed list of new features.
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