New Bed
For about the last 12 years I've been sleeping on a king sized, soft-sided waterbed. It served me very well (probably the best $200 I've ever spent) and I was reluctant to replace it.…
Everybody Likes their own brand
I'll be the first to admit that I can wreak havoc on a bathroom (more accurately: "reek havoc") But covering it up with some perfumey bathroom spray only makes matters worse. Dear god. It's…
Irony can be so ironic
This article on Slate lists the best hip-hop of the year that you'll have a hard time finding in stores. At the bottom of the article was an Advertisement for: Ruben Studdard - Soulful The…
Moving on up
It has been a year since I started this blog. In the first month I had 107 unique visitors. With a few hours left in this January the total stands at 2341 unique visitors... the 12th straight month…
How not to pull a car out of the snow
My description can hardly do this video justice: (14MB) The amazing thing, is not just the sheer stupidity at work... it's that it was caught on tape and subsequently posted on the internet. (if…
Six inches of fun (snow)
We kept wondering when the snow was going to get here... well it's here with more on the way. It's about 15F outside, the snow is very fine and fluffy and it's coming down in a hurry.…
nineteen to go
Prompted by deb... here are the states I've visited. create your own visited states map Not too bad... although this map is really sad. Countries I've visited: create your own visited…
State of the Union
So deb and I are rapidly approaching our 5 year wedding anniversary. Inspired by Stalin and the stunning successes of his and other 5-year plans, I thought it would be a good idea to take stock in…
Resolution
The uber-server (a 4 year old Dell Poweredge 4400) has been fixed. Apparently a client of ours was uploading a ~1gig file onto our extranet. The entire file was been buffered in memory before being…
Tomorrow is going to suck
The mail/intranet/extranet/firewall/cvs/issue-tracker/webmail server bit the dust this afternoon at work. We've got backups, and the RAID array is still probably OK, but we don't have a…