My wireless service provider sent me an offer for a free cell phone if I renewed my service contract again. Why not?: I’m content with the service, and my cell phone was showing its age. In particular, the battery doesn’t hold a charge for more than a day and the display has been cracked since […]
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Last night, as I was preparing my machine for a presentation (Telling it: “You do not have a Sony battery. You’re not going to be melted down into a picnic bench.”), I rebooted to shake out any incomplete “security update” post-processing. Sure enough, when the machine restarted, there was some uselessly named program, trayapp.exe, running.
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I’ve been playing with StumbleUpon and came across this: from a site whose moniker is communicating information about the US. The graphs did make me think… is this intentionally trying to be confusing? What clever caption would you add under this graph?
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I received an MS Vista beta DVD on Friday. The note tried instilling a sense of urgency by giving me a deadline of Tuesday for feedback. Unfortunately, very little of the beta support infrastructure was in place. When I did run into problems, the first person I talked with on the support line had no
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My house was built by stoners. I know this because I tried to run a meager ethernet cable from my living room to the upstairs master bedroom. All I had to show for four hours of attempts four large holes in the drywall, each running into some unexpected beam. Sheesh, even the heater’s return vent
My hosting provider Dreamhost has, once again, increased my allotment of disk space and bandwidth as part of my plan. It’s a shrewd move on their part. First, they’re constantly improving their offering, something Yahoo didn’t do during the years I had service with them. Second, they’re increasing the allotments to ridiculously large levels that
You may have seen this funny engineering depiction of a home designed for Santa. Here’s what an actual engineer had to say: I checked the drawing for accuracy and noticed the following: There is ADA accessible signage on the roof, but no ADA compliant roof access. 1/4 kip tree stand loading spec seems excessive unless
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This can’t be good… I use Windows most of the time, but needed to get a handle on what people are running. For reasons I don’t want to get into, my product requires several different executables to address combinations of data width (32- or 64-bit or Itanium 64-bit), kernal version (2.4 or 2.6) and the
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