Grabbed on a whim, and completely expecting something like his “unique” rendition of “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” or “Rocket Man“, I’m honestly and completely shocked that William Shatner’s music CD Has Been is actually really good.
Shatner’s “Has Been” Is Really Good?! Read Post »
Please please please, all you scientists out there, I will pass on my worldly possessions if you find me a way to strangle someone through standard TCP/IP protocol. Pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssse!
Request For The Day Read Post »
Yesterday I woke up to the light on the ceiling of the bedroom being a bit brighter and dare I say, whiter, than I’m used to first thing on a lazy Saturday morning. Turns out the white stuff had started falling as predicted. It was on and off for the rest of the day, and
So for the first time in ages I finished a proper, real game. I guess technically the last was Portal, but that wasn’t a full First Person Shooter, more of a puzzle game. I have a bad habit of collecting single player first person shooter games, starting them, getting a bit in and then just
Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare Single Player Quicky Review Read Post »
I’m not sure if something in Facebook has changed recently, but I just got my first bit of spam. I’m sure she’s a lovely girl and all, but isn’t part of the whole idea of social networks that they prevent spam by restricting messaging or email to your group of approved friends? Yes, you can
The Start of the Uselessness of Facebook Read Post »
Had to share this quote from a co-worker in instant message today (we had just gotten an internet filtering proxy server running again): (3:18:32 PM) Alan: porn free internet (3:18:40 PM) Alan: what’s the point… (3:24:49 PM) Coworker: It’s true. Without porn, we’d all be without our jobs. Think about it. (3:30:11 PM) Alan: that’d
Why Sysadmins Have Jobs Read Post »
Came into work and… well, lets just say it’s not a good hardware day. I’ll use a “screenshot” of system uptime to illustrate: 04:20:30 up 8:41, 1 user, load average: 433.59, 175.21, 112.95 That really high number? Normally that’s in the 0-2 range. Yea. Eeek. Update Another one…. 16:53:35 up 2 min, 2 users, load
I had an inspiration to create a less-personal (but still personal) tech-oriented blog, kinda a Scoble-like thing, but with more of an Alan-esque twist. Basically this, but without the random long posts about things that no one but me cares about 🙂 Though about something like techno blog, techno geek blog, geek blog, something like
Searching for Domain Names Read Post »
Seeing Paul’s post on Microsoft’s live.com webapp offerings prompted me to pen some quick thoughts on something related to this that I came across a bit ago. I read about the new live.com webapps and figured I’d give them a try (hear something about it on a blog or podcast or something). Going to get.live.com
Thoughts on Microsoft’s Webapps at Live.com Read Post »
Dear Shaw….. provider of both home internet and internet to the main feed at work. Why did you choose my week on call to decide to do things?