This evening, as I was working away on the laptop that has been my main system for the last couple years, things got suddenly much quieter in the office — my desktop system, which had been running near-continuously for most of its five and a half years of life, had shut itself off very abruptly. [...]
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Happy Birthday, C-Square!
It’s a day late and a dollar short, but nobody’s perfect. GoddessJ and I both hope that you had a good one.
The iPod Touch: Good, But Not Good Enough
GoddessJ and I were with some friends at a mall yesterday, and we decided to stop by the Apple store. I wanted to see the iPod Touch in action; I was considering replacing my aging Palm TX with one, and at all the other stores that carry them around here, they’re never charged and running. [...]
Wedding Fun
GoddessJ and I attended a friend’s wedding over the weekend, for our friends B and L. It was… interesting. It was held in a very small town. There was only one chain hotel anywhere near, and it was booked solid before the wedding date was even set because there was some other kind of gathering [...]
Follow-up on “Spam from spock.com” Post
Earlier this week, I posted a rant about three near-identical spam messages I’d received from spock.com. It turns out that they (apparently) weren’t spam at all, but that the site was contacting me on behalf of someone (as yet unknown) who had my addresses listed as part of their contacts. The messages were supposed to [...]
500 Posts!
When I published the last entry, WordPress informed me that it was my 499th post, so I decided to add this celebratory 500th one.
In Pursuit of Powerful, Puzzling, and Private Passwords
(Pardon the excessive alliteration in the title, I got a little carried away. ) Last night, I got a message from my instant-messaging program, indicating that it had been logged out of one of my IM accounts because I’d “logged in from another location.” I’m pretty sure that it was an error in the program [...]
The Iron Man Movie — Sheer Geek Genius
GoddessJ and I went to see the Iron Man movie a couple days ago. Even she loved it, which is saying something, but I thought it was awesome. I’m definitely going to get the DVD as soon as it comes out… I hope it includes an extra about the scene where the red-and-gold armor is [...]
“The Five ForcesCircles of Hell”
Poloni Ploni Almoni mentioned this page to me. I’m not an MBA, and I’ve never studied their way of thinking, so it was quite eye-opening, and finally explains a lot about cell phone providers that I’ve never understood before.