Since switching themes many of my posts have been littered with ads for PDAs, Phones, and Ringtones. While I’m sure they pay good they aren’t exactly relevant to many of my more recent posts. Despite using section targeting to emphasize my actual content and de-emphasize everything else, Adsense seems to be latching on to the […]
Archive for January, 2008
Achy Breaky
22Jan08Still have a variety of aches but I managed to make it thru the day without drugs — not that 5mg of Oxycodone dulled this pain very much to begin with. Just about have the full range of motion back. Some positions still bring on the pain but at least I can wipe my ass […]
Tonight was the night to run the cable. Picked up a couple of splitters, a pair of very short coax cables to go from the splitter to the tuners, and a long coax extension to run back to where the cable currently is wired. Grabbed one of the tuners, careful not to unplug anything so […]
My thoughts on the MacBook Air
20Jan08Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one and nobody thinks theirs stinks. So here’s mine…
The Sony SZ-series in Carbon Fibre is my benchmark lightweight notebook, a 3.72lb machine that sacrifices nothing. It has ExpressCard, a fingerprint scanner, webcam, and Sony includes an ExpressCard 6-in-1 memory card reader. It even has a modem if you like […]
Ownage
20Jan08Richard told me that you don’t really own the bike until you’ve dropped it. Well, Saturday afternoon I finally got around to buying a new full-faced helmet and about 40 minutes into my first ride the bike and I got owned by a median. Luckily the median was the grassy variety with no trees. After […]
Migrating
19Jan08The one time that I really envy Mac users is when I get a new PC. It is just so friggin hard to get all of your applications, settings, and data transitioned from one PC to another. I did give the “Windows Easy Transfer” tool a whirl but after leaving the house for a few […]
More than a decade after Microsoft added long filename support to their operating systems, they still cause problems. My Windows Home Server has been showing this error for a few weeks now:
According to this thread the limitation is within the .NET Framework, which I actually find more disturbing than if it were some sort of […]
Quadzilla
18Jan08My cablecard tuners arrived this afternoon so I finally popped open the XPS 420 box. For a PC it’s actually pretty good looking. The chassis is basically the same as the Dell I purchased last year, but the skins have been updated. The front is an attractive glossy black. The optical drive is hidden behind […]
