Category: General

Hmmmm… Some Dutch publication claims that in tests, consumer recordable CDs become unreadable (or at least substantially degraded) in as little as 2 years. Some of the comments below the translated story suggest varying degrees of disagreement or agreement, but it’s still enough to give you pause. I’ve taken to archiving my full-resolution photos, then…

Expect postings at this site to slow to a trickle for the next few days. I barely have an internet connection. I think my ping times would be higher if I got a line of people to relay a shout. What’s worse (and if you know me, you know that’s saying something) is that the…

I’m not a huge Gore fan. In the last election, I thought he might be marginally better than Bush (if only because of the possibility of Supreme Court retirees), but not substantively different. Still, in this speech, he nails everything I’ve been feeling about the plague on the face of American ideals that the current…

More than 6 percent of all traffic I’ve seen on this site in the past 13 months came here today. Thanks for the traffic hit there popdex. For all of you who are here for the first time, this is one of those lame ass link type of blogs, so I don’t have the batman…

You ever spend an hour downloading a 700 Meg video file (no, not porn you dirty minded little scamps), only to find that you don’t have a media player that will run it? Don’t you hate that? I mean come on. You can’t get me all worked up and then leave me hanging like that,…

Damn it all. It looks like my third (that’s three as in 1, 2, 3) power cord/adaptor/whatever for my PowerBook is going out. This one isn’t burning out like the last 2, but there is a short in the wire right up next to the part that plugs into the computer so if I twist…

Well, I barely understand a word of it, but I’ll probably want to sit down and work out how to do this sometime when I have more free time (and a brain).

I know the difference between the words “write” and “right” without even needing to think about it or look it up. So, why is it that when typing out an e-mail to a friend of mine today, I typed “right”, when I meant to type “write”? It’s happened before too, and it doesn’t make any…

don’t mind me … just testing something.

I must be a horrible person. I see a headline like Feds Seek to Indict Martha Stewart, and it makes me laugh. I don’t know Stewart. I don’t care about Stewart. There should be no reason at all that I would feel glad or sad at that news. And yet, I see those words written…