Saturday was a mostly relaxing day, intersprinkled with much swearing and blowing of people up. We headed over to Jason’s place in Surrey around 10 or 11 or something and had a good day of geeking and blowing things up. I also discovered that I can fit a 19″ monitor in the backseat of my […]
If you’re wondering what to get me, please consider the Robosapien, quite possibly the coolest looking toy ever. It actually looks surprisingly like a cool robotic arm I used to have as a kid, which you could control with two joysticks.
Robosapien – Coolest Toy Ever Read Post »
Darren Barefoot is for collecting donations to help pay for the cost of sending flowers to random couples (gay and straight) in San Fransisco. It’s a pretty cool idea, and many thanks to Darren for recognizing the problem with delivery cost and helping to fix it. On a similar note, Kethryvis pointed out this website
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Some things are only blindingly obvious when they are pointed out by someone else. After we got home tonight from a wonderful indian food dinner (mmmmmm…. naaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnn……………… yummy!) Firefly asked if I had noticed that Patches had learned to open up the medicine cabinet in the bathroom (your typical bathroom cabinet, wood, mirrored front, three
Finding the Other Half Read Post »
When I saw this post by Adam Kessel which pointed to Microsoft goes after Linux kernel downloaders? story posted to the Linux-elitists list I have to wonder if it’s an early april fools joke. The short story is someone put a copy of the Linux kernel source code in a torrent and posted with a
MS Going Big Brother? Read Post »
Has anyone ever got a legitimate email from a .biz or .info domain? Ever? In the history since the new TLDs were created? I didn’t think so. In fact, has anyone every gone to a .biz or .info domain on purpose? I’d just drop any email I ever get from any of those domains, but
Hating the Spammers Read Post »
Dear Mr. Jobs. Please try to make the Finder in OS/X not suck so badly when dealing with mounted FTP sites. Multi-threaded my ass. Multi-tasking my ass. Thanks a bunch. Love, Alan
Today’s Bitch: The Mac Finder Read Post »
It’s mornings like these that make me not mind getting up so much. Click for larger. Both taken with my Canon A70 from the porch around 7:10. Very chilly out there in only shorts. The second pic isn’t quite as good as the first IMHO, you can see where it was stitched together. Unfortunately Canon’s
Another Fantastic Sunrise Read Post »
Each day I’m reminded why I’m not doing phone support. One of our salespeople calls and as I’m the only one here, I got to take the call. I don’t mind this, it only happens once a month or so and the questions are never the hard ones. Anyway, my conversation went something like this:
Phone Support Lovin’ Read Post »
Last night I fixed the mailing list software running on Ufies.org. This morning I have 116 spams sitting in the “awaiting approval” page. Everything from penis enlargement spam to dvd copying spam. Yay. Is there a “discard all” option for mailman maybe?
Fixing Things is a Double Edged Sword Read Post »