Cute joke I saw on Slashdot today, from kbielefe: A scientist goes to God and says, “We don’t need you anymore. I can create a human from nothing more than a handful of dust.” “Alright then, let’s see,” God replies. “No problem,” says the scientist, and he bends over to scoop up some dust. “Hold […]
Saw my first running copy of Windows Vista out in the wild today. On the train there was a guy ahead of me using it on a laptop to play movies or burn CDs or something. Since Vista isn’t actually released yet, do you think he was… Using a legal RC1 or RC2 copy Using
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Argh, I hate being a geek sometimes. When I see a computer belonging to a relative that’s in such bad shape and instead of just leaving it alone I have to volunteer to “fix it up and make it better”, leaving me to be here at the computer at 9 at night on a Sunday
Cleaning Off Windows Computers Read Post »
So somehow last night we managed to get more than 50% of the 5 vehicles we had here stuck in the snow in one form or another. At one point we had a landrover at the top of the driveway pulling a red 4×4 stuck in the driveway while pulling a white truck that was
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Wow, when it comes, it comes. Yesterday we started the day with a tiny smidge of snow outside, just a bit that was left. When told that Firefly’s mom had a couple of inches at their house I said “no way, that’s not possible!” Evening comes and it’s snowing more, a couple of inches on
First Snow of 2006! Read Post »
Sadly I don’t have a picture of the computer, because it’s now somewhere in our data center at work, so you’ll have to let me describe it to you. Think of it as the hardware porn equivalent of the Playboy letters section… Non-techies, skip to the bottom for the non-geek translation[1]. Imagine a computer case
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I ended up seeing the late show of Casino Royale on Friday night, while doing my best to beat back the oncoming cold that knocked me out all weekend and leaves me home today from work (though still somehow working). I have to say I haven’t been to a movie in a while, and this
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Today I hit the big 3-1. Yikes. Not quite time to get myself a red sports car and go budgie jumping just yet though. Yesterday I celebrated my pre-birthday-day by helping Firefly and FireflyMom doing plumbing so we could have water in the house again. Around 11pm or so we finally turned the water main
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So somehow the valley got transfered to India in the monsoon season. It’s been raining non-stop (again) for the last few days…. heck, forecastfox just shows a solid wave going across the 3 day extended forecast! Advantage of taking the train to work is no need to drive in this weather, disadvantage is having to
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So while I thought today could be a rest-and-relaxation day, the FireflyFam arrived at 11 (got to sleep in at least!) armed with lots of supplies. Scary. Looks like today we’re re-doing the plumbing! Of course, you can’t just put in one or two pipes, but you have to do everything at once. Luckily not
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