Wow, it’s getting worse I think. Just got back from Wendy’s, to get my monthly grease quotient, and the cup I got my drink in was just covered with stuff. I’m used to seeing a coke logo, and/or the logo of said grease-joint, but this is stupid. Lets see Block of text telling me to […]
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I’m a fan of auto-updates. I like being up to date, hell, I like being overly up to date and skating out on the bleeding edge of software. I also like security. This is why I’m a fan of Microsoft’s decision to put a better auto-update into Windows XP Service Pack 2. Basically when security
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A reminder to everyone to take a few minutes today, be it at 11:11 or later, after the crowds have gone away to think for a few minutes about all the horrible things that have happened in the wars from past and present and be truely thankful that we don’t have to go through that
Any Visual Studio .NET gurus out there that can help my buddy Dana out? He’s run up against a wall with Microsoft (apparently if you have that evil, cancerous Open Source stuff in your code they won’t help, even if you pay), so he’s put out a call for help with an AxWebBrowser exception. Help
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Got a bit obsessed today with tiny apps for my USB thumb drive. Started with this link, which I installed on my 512mb PINE thumb drive a while back, and never really used it. I brought the drive in today to move some mp3s from my work computer to my home computer and found that
So if you don’t know what TiVo is, it’s basically a turbo charged digital VCR that lets you watch TV your way, and I’ve yet to hear from someone who has one that doesn’t like it, or who would go back to TV the “regular” way. Recently it’s been announced that TiVo will be available
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It’s mayor election time in beautiful Mission, signaled not only by a vast number of signs popping up all over the place, but by random strangers telling you their plans for world city domination. The latter happened to me just now walking into work, when a man who looked a lot like Kenny Rogers said
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This really should be titled “How I Was Introduced to Levelling” or “How Battlefield 2 Stole My Life”. I’ve never really played games that involved levelling or levelling up before. Basically levelling is the term for gaining experience in a role playing game, so as you do more and more of the same things, your
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Very cool article on Apple’s new professional photography application Aperture. Not all great, however, mostly very cool (does that make any sense?). Too bad I don’t have the $5,000 mac that I want (need) to run this 🙂