Gordaen’s Blog

Update: According to the IE blog, the IE team has changed its stance from what it was (as described in this post) to a more logical one. I intended to do another blog post about it, but other things in life have been more interesting (like getting sleep since I’ve been a bit ill). […]

I recently bought two new 19″ monitors (with a nice 1680×1050 resolution each). I was surprised that I simply plugged them both in and started the computer and Gnome was correctly displaying a cloned image (i.e., the same thing on both screens) at the correct resolution on both monitors. Unfortunately, getting them to […]

Anyone who knows me pretty well could probably guess that I support Obama. Besides having logical, step-by-step plans that mostly mirror my own thoughts and having a far better understanding of technology than pretty much anyone who is “high up” in our government, he is actually restoring my faith that it is possible to […]

This is too cool not to share. A group called Improv Everywhere went to Grand Central (the world’s largest train station) and froze in place for five minutes. Two hundred people strong, the scene bewildered spectators and made for a great video.

Stuck in shoe bottoms,
tiny rocks make their escape
into your clean home.
Those living in glass houses
should take shoes off at the door.
I wrote the first part and classmate Julia Teichet wrote the Renga (the last two lines).