I had the following conversation with a co-worker today: Co-worker: Hey, uh…do you guys have a magical utility that emails reports? Something we don't know about? Me: Yes. It also ejects Pop Tarts from the floppy drive, if you have one. Otherwise it spits Red Vines out of the unused USB ports. Co-worker: Oh, sweet!!!! [...]
Filed under: Geek, Tender Lumplings, Work on October 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Shauna and I decided that we wanted to watch a streaming movie from Netflix tonight and found a title that seemed pretty interesting. I went ahead and loaded it up only to be met with a message that our Internet connection was too slow to start watching it immediately and that we'd have to wait [...]
Filed under: Geek, Rants on October 25th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Aside from some isolated issues, I've been pretty happy with my phone service from Vonage over the last four and a half years. The call quality is good, the price is excellent and they have an awesome set of features. Despite all of this, I'm looking for a new phone company. Why would I do [...]
Filed under: Geek on October 22nd, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The short version is that the hosting company had a problem that caused the webserver part to barf. If you want to read the long version, click through to the rest of the story.
Filed under: Geek, Website on October 13th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Dear Bloglines, I've been using your product ever since I figured out that clicking on the list of blogs from my blogroll or keeping a list of bookmarks would simply be too much. And you know what? It was a really slick system when I started with it. I even tried to use Google Reader [...]
Filed under: Geek on October 8th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I had a problem last night where I wrote a post, gave it a date to be published in the future and had it promptly disappear on me. Granted, I'm using an older version of WordPress (2.1.3 until I can test the latest release), but I certainly wouldn't expect functionality to stop working. I ended [...]
Filed under: Geek on September 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
"Free is a very competitive price." That's been one of my catchphrases for a while now and rare are the occasions where it isn't true. This past week proved it in spades. I travel quite a bit for work and it's taken me all over the country, racking up frequent flyer miles left and right. [...]
Filed under: Family, Geek, Travel, Work on September 2nd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After the death of the long-in-the-tooth desktop, I was looking forward to getting a shiny new one to replace it. I'd been intending to upgrade for a long time, but the total investment was proving to be a bit much for something that wasn't so necessary. Once it decided to kick the bucket, there was [...]
Filed under: Geek on August 15th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I've been using Firefox since it was known as Phoenix back in the 0.1 days and have always been really pleased with the project overall. Using Firefox has always been a pleasure with good performance, stability and extensibility. It had gotten so good that I didn't think Firefox 3 could really be that much more [...]
Filed under: Geek on July 16th, 2008 | 10 Comments »
When I left Las Vegas for a new life in Utah, I also left behind several friends. Just prior to moving, I'd had a falling out with one of them that bordered on epic. Since we both had mutual friends and I was the one leaving town, it pretty much cut me off from all [...]
Filed under: Church, Geek, Life on July 12th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
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