Arcterex's Random Thoughts Since 1996
Long long time no type. Lately I’ve been blogging a bit on my photography site and naval gazing on twitter and mucking around a bit on Google+. Lately the one interesting thing is I’ve somehow managed to get featured in two videos. Yup, you can see my ugly mug by going to… http://www.scorpionsoft.com/levelplatforms and watching …
A couple of days ago I got a text from my wife saying something about “kitten” and “barn” and “abandoned”. Cutting a long story short, so yea, we got another kitten. She was abandoned (as best we can figure) at the barn (theory being a dumped kitten turns into a barn cat, probably makes those …
sigh So Corny is at the vet again. This time he was panting and drooling yesterday, so A took him to the vet, who gave him an anti-inflammatory shot and some antibiotics and he was ok. The vet figured it was an allergic reaction to a flea bite (or something like that). This morning though …
Sorry but I’m sick of deleting 30 comments a day from some Chinese guy trying to spam about headphones or some crap like that, and considering I don’t get enough actual comments (or traffic that isn’t spam) to worry about it, you know you can just send me an email or something. Bah, stupid internet.
Yea, yea, dead blog that has only 3 readers. Not completely dead, I’ve been feeling more guilty as time goes on and I don’t update, or at least point to where I am actually doing stuff. Basically now that I’ve been working at Left of the Dot and my commute went down by about …
Well, this morning marked the second day, and start of the first “real” week of work at my new job at Left of the Dot. So far so good, though not without some griping and minor failures on my part. The latter mostly came this morning. See, right now I have no shower (another long …
Hows this for a blast from the past: All comments: help@counter.li.org Your record was created: 1999-04-23 05:07:09 Person info last modified: 2006-03-12 08:33:53 //PERSON name: Alan usage: Home, work started: 1998 homepage: http://arcterex.net/blog/ //MACHINE 52939 cpu: Pentium 75 # Interpreted as Pentium/75 disk: 2000 memory: 48 network: Ethernet source: debian.org distribution: Debian country: CA accounts: …
Two starkly different experiences with customer service today. First the Good: Pretty simple here. I have been looking into online backup services and had let the 14 day demo of CrashPlan lapse without actually testing it out. Not only are the support people watching their @crashplan twitter account fast and helpful, but they were happy to hook …
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Been doing a lot of “Strobist” stuff lately, the shot to the right is of the beautiful Terra-Jean whom I had the honor of shooting a couple of weekends ago at a meetup.com gathering of photographers, led by Chris Pike. Great time was had and I got some great shots if you hit that image’s …
Well, it took it’s time, but it’s finally here (at least for a bit). We were sitting watching the new (and excellent) Sherlock BBC series when we looked out the window and what appeared to be snowballs were falling from the sky. Turns out it was just snow in huge flakes though. Grabbed my Pentax …
So it was the power supply, and I didn’t have to resort to spending a ton of money (well, yet anyway). After installing the new power supply, and finding the solution to my next problem (the system running super-slow with 4 1G sticks of RAM) – installing a BIOS update, everything is back to normal …
Another day of complete and total hardware failure 🙁 The plan was simple… help clean up the office by converting two computers into one by moving my aging linux desktop (mostly unused except for the occasional consulting project I get) into a virtual machine (using either Virtual Box or VMWare) on my more modern (but …