Archive for July, 2005
New Photos
Well, here they are, as promised. I’ve decided that photography is becoming more and more of a serious hobby, and I gave it it’s own category since I will most likely be posting lots in the near future.
I spent a good part of the night messing with different border styles with which to “brand” [...]
The Misadventures of the Early-Bird Brigade
Isn’t there some sort of unspoken law about mowing your lawn before 9AM on a Sunday morning? Hell, it may even be 10AM, but I’m pretty sure most decent neighborhoods adhere to some sort of common courtesy “morning noise rule”, especially on Sundays. Did I just make this up?
Things have been pretty quiet on the [...]
Weird…
A friend just sent me a link to MSNBC’s “The Year in Pictures” for 2003, and in the reader’s choice for “best of”, he found the following image:
I’m not sure which is the bigger coincidence: that another picture of a squirrel eating Reese’s exists, or that my friend randomly found this online just days after [...]
Read More..>>New Aquabats Video
I quit listening to the Aquabats in early high school when I realized that the whole ska thing was really dumb. I haven’t followed up on any of the bands I used to love (Aquabats, Buck-o-Nine, Mustard Plug, etc) at all. Well the Aquabats recently released a new album that several friends of mine got [...]
Read More..>>My Convoluted Bit Torrent Adventure
Bit Torrent is one of the single greatest things to happen to the filesharing community in recent history, but it’s a little more complicated than the “type the name of the file you’re looking for, double click to download it”-style of sharing popularized by the “mainstream” P2P clients like KaZaa, WinMX, Ares, etc etc. Unless [...]
Read More..>>FireFTP
I ditched SmartFTP about 3 months ago in favor of Filezilla, and really haven’t thought about alternative FTP clients since. Well today I was randomly browsing for Firefox extensions and stumbled across FireFTP, a Firefox plugin that takes an integrated approach to FTP. How did I miss this before? I’m in love! It’s simple and [...]
Read More..>>Pictures of Rodents Eating Garbage
I guess my recent obsession with photography got Tim interested in his camera again, and today we biked around town for a couple hours just looking for neat photo opportunities. This is only my second day shooting in full manual mode, so I’m still getting the hang of it. I took about 60 pictures today, [...]
Read More..>>Computers and the People That Don’t Need Them
Well, since Brain can no longer provide tech support to his family, I somehow was nominated to fill the void. I don’t REALLY mind, but it’s getting a little out of control (they want me to set up their Dolby surround now?), and I’m a little irritated how I’m expected to act on Brain’s mom’s [...]
Read More..>>Ugh Part II
Well I think I have solved my computer’s stability issues. My computer went down 4 times this morning in the span of about 30 minutes, and the temp was nowhere near the unstable range. Since my other option was a failing stick of RAM, I removed the stick I was sure was the culprit. I [...]
Read More..>>Ugh
So for the past 3 days my computer has decided to become really unstable. I’m really enjoying it because I never know what work I’m going to lose or when. Either my CPU is running too hot or I have a stick of RAM going bad on me. Since room temperature has risen about 15° [...]
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