Coming soon, to a computer near you
Installing a new operating system on my computer – ‘Innuendos 7′. I don’t care for the way it uses a winky emoticon when it asks me to insert a boot disk.
View ArticleWhat I want in a car “entertainment system”
I’ve been thinking about building a PC for use in the car for ages (most likely running some flavor of Linux). Gradually the market is catching up with my desires and it looks as if soon I may be able...
View ArticleHilariously Bad Spam
Like anyone with an email address, I get my fair share of spam. Most of it is simply annoying but every now and then I get a gem like this, brilliant in its awkward absurdity: Attn;My Dear, This is to...
View ArticleIt’s a catastrophe! (or is it?)
I love it when what at first appears to be a catastrophe turns out to be no big deal. Earlier my power went out, just for a minute. Once it came back on I discovered an issue with my file server. It...
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Crazy distributed bots
This is a 28 day graph of my website’s traffic through Feb. 5. Normally my site transfers between 5 and 50MB per day. A distributed bot called “80 legs” (or user-agent: 008) crawled the site on the...
View ArticleChicks who knit
My friends were trying to explain Pinterest to me, said it’s a good place to meet chicks who knit. So naturally I created the term “Knitches”. As in: “Where my knitches at?” Seriously, that toaster...
View ArticleI’m back!
I haven’t posted here in over a year. Here’s my excuse: My webhost upgraded their servers to the latest version of PHP, which was incompatible with the (seriously out-of-date) version of WordPress I...
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ASUS TF300 Charger Magic
So here’s something. I realize that no one really cares, but I’m posting this as a public service to some intrepid internet traveler facing the same problem. Yesterday I discovered that the charger for...
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