RandyRants: digital pity

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What's the Buzz? (0)
Feb.12.10
	I'll admit it: I don't have a Gmail account. Sure - I have a Hotmail account, but that's because I didn't know I could use my own email account when I needed a Passport Windows Live ID. Since then, I've...

24: Season 8 (0)
Jan.18.10
	Jesus, does anyone know how much Apple paid for such product placement this season? Any bets on what new hardware shows up after next week's announcements? g...

Welcome Back To The Future (0)
Dec.16.09
	Gizmodo: The Google Phone could be a ploy to upset the wireless industry, or it could be an expensive niche device. Either way, it'd be a bid to take Android back from the companies that seem hell-bent on destroying it....

Uhhh. Really? (0)
Nov.19.09
	Engadget has a blurb about ChromeOS. It's too soon to make any major comments about it, until more information comes down the pike, but one thing that I jumped right off the page was "connect to the web every day...

Epic Dark Disney (0)
Nov.05.09
	I know a lot of people are a bit shocked that Disney is allowing a "dark" video game in the form of the coming Epic Mickey but after watching this clip from 1935 and remembering the she-villain of Sleeping Beauty,...

Are People In Hell Sipping Iced Cold Kool-Aid? (0)
Oct.08.09
	WSJ: In recent years, I, like many other reviewers, have argued that Apple's Mac OS X operating system is much better than Windows. That's no longer true. I still give the Mac OS a slight edge because it has a...

iPod Touch But No See? (1)
Sep.11.09
	Engadget: Steve Jobs says iPod touch didn't get a camera because "it's a great game machine" Uh... so it's a great game machine... OK, fine - the guy had a liver transplant recently so he might have missed meetings, but...

Uhhh... (4)
Sep.04.09
	SeattlePI: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has granted Microsoft's motion to stay an injunction that would prohibit the software giant from selling Word. Microsoft filed the motion Aug. 18 while preparing to appeal a Texas judge's...

Google Chrome OS (4)
Jul.08.09
	BBC: "Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS," the firm said in its official blog. The operating system, which will run on an open source licence, was a "natural extension" of its Chrome browser, the...

MapQuest ...For The iPhone? (0)
Jun.15.09
	MapQuest: MapQuest 4 Mobile is the next evolution of maps & directions on the iPhone Wow. Here's a situation... someone took the time to make a map application for a platform that ships with a default map application. People are...

OH HAI! ROYALTEEZ PLZ? (5)
May.28.09
	Microsoft.com: Bing - Microsoft today introduced Bing, a new search experience and consumer brand, outlining a new approach to helping customers use search to make better decisions. This “Decision Engine” approach focuses initially on four key user tasks and related...

Oof. (0)
Mar.16.09
	MSNBC.com: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has chronicled the news of the city since logs slid down its steep streets to the harbor and miners caroused in its bars before heading north to Alaska’s gold fields, will print its final edition...

What's More Insulting For Valentine's Day: Chocolate or a Wii Fit? (0)
Feb.09.09
	This weekend I wandered into Circuit City and said "Whoa, they got the Wii Fit in stock!" For "social games" - i.e. Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Wii Fit - the liquidators are only offering 20% off, but in all honest,...

Art Mimicking Reality (0)
Feb.02.09
	Penny Arcade: New Hotness It's only funny because it's actually pretty true. Just not as bad as it used to be....

Note To Self: Browsers Still Suck a Decade Later (5)
Jan.23.09
	Note to self: not matter how big a file is on a remote server - i.e. a 7.37GB .TiVo file that I'm attempting to download over my local network - the following applies: Browser Version Max Download AllowedInternet Explorerv74GBFirefoxv36.75GBSafariv36.75GBChromev14GBOperav9.66.75GB I have no...

Angst: Web 1.0 Edition (0)
Nov.07.08
	"Oh... then clear your cache then delete all of your cookies and it will be fine." How about 'no, I don't think I will' for a reply? Not for anything, but the whole purpose of cookies is to store little...

Glutton For Punishment (0)
Oct.17.08
	Thus begins Round Three of the Apple saga... I bought a MacBook last night. 2GHz (no underlit keyboard but also less heat than the 2.4GHz), 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 802.11n, etc. My take is that it has a really nice...

More NXE Stuff (4)
Oct.13.08
	And for some flavor, this is what my avatar looks like... today, anyway - I find that I'm tweaking it much more than I expected I would......

One Man CAN Make A Difference (0)
Aug.20.08
	Hoffspace. Yes. It's real. Yes. He really says this on the page....

Huh... (4)
Jul.24.08
	c\|net: Microsoft looks to 'Mojave' to revive Vista's image [...] The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a "new" operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they...

My v2 iPhone Buying Experience - Updated (0)
Jul.19.08
	Got one after all....

My v2 iPhone Buying Experience (0)
Jul.18.08
	Bottom line: I still have a v1 iPhone with 1.1.4 software....

FAIL. (0)
Jun.30.08
	MSNBC: PERTH, Australia - A man who auctioned his life — his house, his car, his job, even his friends — on eBay said Monday he is disappointed with the selling price. More proof that we couldn't have "advanced" as...

RULES! (0)
Jun.26.08
	Xbox.com: Transferring Content Licenses to a New Console - Got a new Xbox 360® console? Great. But maybe you downloaded games or other content from Xbox LIVE® Marketplace onto an older Xbox 360 console, and now you want all that...

Ditto, Or Something (0)
Jun.26.08
	Gizmodo: Why I Still Use Windows Despite the Peer Pressure I can empathize - the Mac in my living room isn't there to be a computer as it's a DVD-enabled version of AppleTV - and it's an entertaining read either...

WWDC 2008 (0)
Jun.05.08
	Weird... for the first time in at least a few years, I'm actually actively curious and excited for this years WWDC... I blame the iPhone....

GTA IV: Variations On A Theme (1)
May.12.08
	Yeah, well, most of my free time has been spent trying to get through the campaigns of GTA IV - that has eaten into blogging time... writing anyway: I don't have all that much to say these days, I guess....

To The Day! (0)
Apr.29.08
	True, it's just a rumor. Yes, nothing is "known for certain" about the next generation iPhone. But 16 days after making a purchase, exactly two days after my window of return closes, I see this: Fortune: When the 3G iPhone...

iPhone: Workaround #1 (0)
Apr.18.08
	As I noted in an earlier post, I found a problem with Outlook->iPhone sync'ing for Appointment items that had a relatively large size. Tim Heuer mentioned that the same sync process had issues with specific types of Outlook Appointment items......

iPhone: Concession #1 (2)
Apr.16.08
	As with all new technologies in my life, there's always a period of transition. A chunk of time when you have to unlearn what you're used to and re-learn things with new devices that are expected to be better than...

Warning: iPhone Update Coming (0)
Apr.14.08
	Don't buy an iPhone for another 15 days. Why? Because I recently bought one, and if past history has shown me anything, as soon as I buy something like there one of the following things happens: a new version is...

iPhone 2.0: Reaction (7)
Mar.06.08
	Exchange support? Great, but from my phone reckoning, this is a two year old feature. Plugging holes in product line ups are good, but I, for one, wouldn't celebrate them. SDK? Looked really good. Native code? Interesting. What really hurt...

Slippery When Wet (3)
Feb.29.08
	"ugh! how many times to I have to tell my boyfriend to clean off the mouse after he masturbates! Disgusting!" [taken from an IM conversation, in real time]...

Super Smash Bros. Brawl? Really? (2)
Feb.23.08
	I have to ask, because as a gamer I'm curious. As a Wii owner, I have some skin in the game. What's with all the hype for SSBB?...

I CAN HAS CAPTCHA? (5)
Feb.21.08
	I know I don't use Google for search that much - like once every couple of weeks - but when did they start requiring CAPTCHA checks for searches?...

Empathic Images (0)
Feb.06.08
	AppleGeeks: AppleGeeks Lite 260 Whoo, man, I've lived that very scene before and with an iPod no less... It sucks. Hard....

Ow - Temporal Edition (0)
Jan.28.08
	Finding three hours of MTV cerca 1983 via Wil Wheaton: Good. Hearing that you can order music over the phone or "be the first to get MTV in stereo" via the commercials: Better. Realizing that you just shared the link...

How To Read Financial Results (4)
Jan.23.08
	Dear Apple Fans, Congratulations on Apple's fiscal report yesterday! It is truly great to be excited when the company you've pinned your hopes and dreams on has gathered more profit than they ever have in the history of the company;...

MacBook Air (2)
Jan.16.08
	I sat on this one for 24 hours because I wanted to make sure that the Jobs Distortion Field had dissipated before talking about a new Apple product. I have to say that the design and the specs of the...

+1 iPhone? (0)
Jan.11.08
	Gizmodo: Apple iPhone Starbucks Ordering Screens Look Like the Real Thing, Precede Apple Patent If this is the real deal, Apple may have a new iPhone customer. Putting up with a touch screen device, shelling out $400 for a disposible...

Green Isn't Always Good (0)
Jan.11.08
	Fortune: Melinda Gates goes public An interesting article... I mean most people would be jealous of BillG for his success and cash... after reading this, they'd have missed the target and hit the tree. Either way, here's proof that every...

1963 (3)
Jan.07.08
	I've done a good deal of research and I'm reasonably convinced that 1963 is birth year that marks an extreme technological divide. The battlefield? Connecticut. The battle? 4:3 versus 16:9....

Bug: Google Language Tools (1)
Jan.04.08
	Whoo, is this a strange bug in Google's translational engines... I'm not sure what Brazil's Major Nelson [my boss] was up to, but he came by today and said, translate this with Google's engine - translate it from English to...

TiVo Hath Returned (1)
Dec.31.07
	After an otherwise bleak weekend of seeya-soon's and somewhat stressful travel* I'm home again, with a newly installed TiVo 3 under my TV and a fist full of gift cards in tow. heart...

I'm a Wii Magnet (0)
Dec.02.07
	Last year, I helped eight people get Wii consoles. Well, nine, if you include mine. I didn't camp out of any of them. Didn't get to a store early for them. I wandered into a store and wham there they...

Lenovo Brings +1 Happiness (0)
Nov.20.07
	My Lenovo T60p is about 18 months old. It's holding up very well, but there's a new model that I'm really interested in buying... Core 2 Duo vs Core Duo, 802.11n, etc. A moderate bump, more or less, but I...

Even Broken Clock (2)
Nov.18.07
	Scoble gets blasted by Mac fanboys, while trying to prove a valid point, which in and of itself is a nice change of pace. No spin or "head in the sand" opinion this time. Just a small post - or...

Bad Geek Retail Karma (4)
Nov.13.07
	They're all conspiring against me! All of the retail stores. Aiiigh!...

Violent, fat stacks of cash, and good in bed (4)
Nov.08.07
	Hit Reset!: From Guys & their games... - MSN Dating & Personals [...] Q. And what does the Xbox divulge about its owner? [...] Satterfield: These guys tend to like extremely violent, visceral games, as well as the social aspect...

Android (0)
Nov.05.07
	Android: Welcome to the Open Handset Alliance?, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies who have come together to accelerate innovation in mobile and offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better mobile experience. Together we have...

I Heart Target (and Fred Meyer) (0)
Oct.29.07
	Xbox360FanBoy: Warning future Guitar Hero III purchasers ... Walmart is evil. And yes, we know the word evil carries a lot of emotional weight behind it, but we're comfortable and confident in using such an adjective to describe Walmart seeing...

Games! Games! Games! (4)
Oct.28.07
	Was looking at a Best Buy flyer today... holy crap. Guitar Hero III hit shelves today; The Simpsons and Naruto and a few other games hit this Tuesday or Wednesday... so much eye candy, I dunno what to do! Well,...

Sex Survey (17)
Oct.25.07
	I need the net-based citizens of interwebs to weigh in on an issue for me... it's one part sociological and one part I-Don't-Understand. The situation is this: A couple have been together for over a year. Both people in the...

ID10T (3)
Oct.10.07
	TUAW: What's the opposite of flamebait? It's when your PowerBook really does catch fire and nearly kills you--and you write a love letter like Jimm Lasser did. After his PowerBook burst into flames, he didn't lash out at Apple. He...

Zune: Next Generation (2)
Oct.02.07
	c\|net: Microsoft has unveiled the second generation of Zune digital music players and will offer consumers 1 million unprotected songs on its online music store. Finally some news on new Zune devices! Yes, I'm getting this same off at the...

Boom. (4)
Sep.24.07


T Minus 1 Hour (0)
Sep.24.07
	Halo 3....

Transfer Complete (0)
Sep.20.07
	Using XBL and a 512MB MU, I took some time to set up my new Xbox console. Yes, it's olive and orangy-chrome. Yes, I now have a shiny new Gamerpic and theme. Yes, it's the Xbox 360 Halo 3 Special...

I touch No More (8)
Sep.19.07
	Back it goes. The last straw was the video playback. I made the mistake of looking at The Italian Job clip on a proper iPhone today and noticed two rouge/dead pixels while playing back video on my iPod touch. Instead...

Missing Features: iPod touch (3)
Sep.18.07
	I spent the day playing with the iPod touch and I'm... disturbed by what I've discovered. In the comments of the previous post I point out that I noticed that the iPod touch is not an iPhone with no phone...

Falling Off The Wagon (4)
Sep.14.07
	This is what falling off the wagon looks like:...

ok. Ok. Ok. OK. OK! OK!!! OKOKOKOKOKOK!!!1!11! (0)
Sep.10.07
	I'm not wearing denim shorts anymore. Except on laundry day and even then, those will be cargo styled. Meh....

Told You I Couldn't Tell You (0)
Sep.07.07
	A little while ago, I had a long drawn-out post about something I couldn't talk about. Was all stuff that had to be said. Some even left in the comments "that's a lot of talk for not saying anything". Had...

A Return To Saint's Row: Games Ahoy! (0)
Sep.03.07
	I finished BioShock. The other game that has been stealing my gaming time has ended has been paused until the September 25. All of which means that it's time that I get back to finished off the games that I've...

PAX'07: Holy. Shit. (0)
Aug.24.07
	I went to PAX today - went early in fact. Though I'd walk around downtown, get some lunch and come back before it opened at 2. At 11:40 the line hand at least 200 people in line, maybe 300. I...

OH HAI! (5)
Aug.10.07
	Welcome new visitors to my blog. Seems I've been made popular lately... I'm not asking why, but by all means: enjoy what you see!...

So It Went... (0)
Jul.24.07
	Furrygoat: After 1888 posts, this experiment is pretty much over. I'm sure at some point, something will be back up here in it's place, but it almost certainly won't be a blog. Thanks for tagging along on the ride though....

Oh Hai! (0)
Jul.19.07
	Joystiq: The (not so) stringent world of video game testing There have been a lot of complaints about publishers rushing buggy games out so they can hit a certain date, knowing they can update them via patches over the increasingly...

Balance? In An iPhone Review? (0)
Jul.09.07
	Gizmodo: Apple: No BS iPhone Review It's actually a very good review and that's not because I agree with the majority of it all - it's the over all level of content. Although, I think they're observations on price a...

Just One More (3)
Jun.26.07
	I swear to God, if I read, hear, or see one more thing that mentions the iPhone in a way that is not related to something technical and newly discovered* I will wait in line at my local at&t store,...

At A Loss (0)
Jun.20.07
	The Levi's Phone. YouTube on mobile devices. YouTube on AppleTV. I don't get any of this. A jeans company making a cell phone is just as useless as being able to view some random, grainy, came-from-a-VHS-tape 1982 Knight Rider episode...

To IDE Or AHCI My SATA Drive? (4)
Jun.09.07
	Dear LazyWeb: should I be running my 500GB SATA-II drive in IDE or AHCI mode? FWIW, I installed with IDE. Found a registry setting that allows you to switch to AHCI mode after installing (HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\msachi\Start needs to be 0 for...

Score! (0)
May.29.07
	Interesting times my 1337 gam3r friends... got handed a copy of Halo 2 for Vista last week - another happy day in games land: Forza 2, Shadowrun for Xbox 360, and Shadowrun for Vista came my way today. I'm stoked...

Hey, McFly? (0)
May.17.07
	McFly2015.com: It's a grassroots movement to get Nike to make available to consumers the futuristic-looking sneakers seen in the 1989 movie Back to the Future Part 2. File this under "why petitions don't change the world" right next to the...

THETUBE (1)
May.13.07
	I noticed this "new" network called THETUBE when I was back in Connecticut a couple of weeks ago at my sister and brother-in-law's house. Basically, it's what MTV was when MTV started. But with more recognizable music. Which is something...

Sakura-Con (0)
Apr.03.07
	Sakura-Con 2007 is going on this weekend... and yes, I finally gave in and bought a three day pass. Now the question is whether or not I actually get off my ass and go. Go be a fan boy and...

How To Lose An Argument: 120GB Xbox 360 Edition (14)
Mar.29.07
	Want to argue with me? Come with proper facts and some logic to argue your case or I'll make you cry and send you home a loser. Oof. Look at all the would be job applicants that just retracted their...

What Would You Do For A Headline? (0)
Mar.18.07
	Rory: What a f***ing mess Rory weighs in on Scoble's recent comments about Microsoft... you know, the company that helped grow his ego blog image and further fund his current endevour by paying his salary for years... Thanks to Rory,...

Bmp-Bmmp! (0)
Mar.17.07
	Uh-oh. I feel like upgrading some hardware....

It's... 2007 (0)
Mar.05.07
	Old news to you, I'm sure, seeing as it's March and all, but I think the 2007 part of the year just hit me. With a 2x4. Upside my head. I just realized how old some of the mail I...

I Am... Insulted. (0)
Feb.21.07
	Subject: Hello Friend, lets be friends because friends are like clothe without them one is naked Oh my friend, Hoping you are fine and living good. ice having your address, I wanna be your friend, for first friendship cannot be...

Hail To Saint Valentine (0)
Feb.14.07
	Via Gizmodo. Seems fitting....

Did You Just Feel That? (0)
Jan.25.07
	Hmmm. I would swear I can feel a cloud of Bad Geek Karma swirling over my head. The early warning signs? I can't get my Sirius Widget to load and play music. And not for anything, but having to leave...

Oh My Nose! (2)
Jan.19.07
	Gizmondo: The fragrance world has evolved into unexplored areas, and now Play-Doh has gotten into the act. Celebrating its 50th birthday, Hasbro decided to release Play-Doh Cologne Spray in a limited edition for $18.99, reminding you of that time in...

Email Consolidation (2)
Jan.18.07
	sigh I've resorted to asking the LazyWeb(tm) mob for info! I've had one email address at one domain for over 12 years now. I've got three Hotmail Windows Live Mail accounts. I've got a few other email addy's now that...

This Space Is Leased By Joost (0)
Jan.17.07
	This space is leased by Joost. Well, not really by Joost - it's actually on loan on behalf of a co-worker that wants to be on the Joost beta... which needs an invite from someone that's already a member... so...

Hard Being A Woman (2)
Jan.08.07
	It's harding being a woman on Zack's island. I played Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 from start to finish, as Kasumi. I didn't win one game of volleyball, I got my ass bruised from the butt-bumping game, I fell in...

Moof... Overload. (0)
Jan.08.07
	CES Data Overload... IPTV coming to the 360. Live Anywhere demo'd in the wild - nice job Uno! Rumors about Geometry Wars moving to the PC... More Vista demos... Not to mention the home server bit. Aiiiiigh. Makes me wonder...

Blogging Host: Slip! (0)
Jan.06.07
	If you can see this, congratulations: your ISP is pretty fast at picking up DNS changes. You see, as much as I enjoyed the maintenance free-hosting of my blog on TypePad, they screwed me one time too many with some...

PFHTFHFTHDFRTHFTH! (0)
Dec.19.06
	That's the sound of me shooting coffee out of my nose. CardSquad: At LasVegasVegas, flipchippro says that the rumors are true, and Harrahs will be sold to Apollo Management Group for around 17 billion dollars. HO SHVIT!...

Clickity-Clack (1)
Dec.04.06
	One of the hardest things about returning to a cube farm is that of noise. Ambient noises, I mean. The benchmark I use for it is what my reaction to it is. If I notice it, it's a distraction. If...

d0nut o1 Has Been Retired (0)
Nov.29.06
	gasp You've changed your Gamertag twice in one year? Yeah I did. What of it?...

Wow-Wii (0)
Nov.28.06
	If you happened to be in Redmond today and saw a red Jeep streaking down an icy road from Microsoft to Target and back, filled with four Geeks and four Wii boxes then... um... Wasn't Mii. Whoo!...

Piss In Blue (1)
Nov.26.06
	cre.ation.net: We've all dreamed of it - who wouldn't want to have bright blue urine? Alright, I admit some people might be appalled at this strange activity, but many will find it interesting. Heed the warning. And no, I'm not...

WhoopWii (0)
Nov.20.06
	Engadget: Wiimote strap breaks, controller destroys TV Not often that I'm proven "right" during the first 36 hours of a product launch. In fact, I remember saying "Hey, good idea on the strap" because of this very scenario. However, I'm...

Wild Wii (0)
Nov.19.06
	Not willing to leave well enough alone tonight, I went back out to see what was going on in Wii Land, about an hour before Fred Meyer opened their doors. Didn't go to Kirkland this time; went to Bellevue instead....

Pouty Face (0)
Nov.18.06
	Last week I decided that I had enough problems with my 360 to call them for a repair, so I did. Talk about bad timing....

Primal Forces (5)
Nov.16.06
	I was flipping through the radio stations this morning and came across the Adam Corolla Show. They're sending someone to a local Best Buy, where Sony fanboys - or auctioners for Sony fanboy, but it shouldn't matter - are lined...

Emergence Prime: Polar Opposites (2)
Nov.09.06
	What the hell do I do with it? Personally I'm just amused that we could ship a game like Gears and Piñata within 48 hours of each other: both are state of the arts and extremely playable yet so...

25 or 6 After 1 (2)
Nov.08.06
	Gears of War landed on my desk yesterday. I picked up Call of Duty 3 tonight. I've still Need For Speed: Carbon sitting on my coffee table. And here it is, nearly 1:31 in the morning - the obvious question...

Time Slip! (3)
Nov.03.06
	Between work, school, and work, I seem to have misplaced October. Which is kinda nice actually because I've been waiting for November to kick off, what with all the GeekStuffs coming out: 11/?? - Xbox 360 Live Wireless Headset (already...

Fun++ (2)
Oct.10.06
	Come for the Gimmick; Stay for the Game Play! Yeah, I said exactly that the other day during a work conversation... I was talking about the Wii and the power of a Gimmick....

Sad: Lawsuit Edition (12)
Oct.07.06
	How far have we come with lawsuits in our society? Far enough so we now need to have "Caution - the hot coffee in this cup may be hot" and "Warning - this sharp knife might cut you" on obvious...

sigh - Apple Edition (8)
Oct.04.06
	Why does encoding video have to suck so freakin' much? [I'll save Steve the effort of commenting on this post by commenting for him: "ha" with a "get a Mac" followed with a "user error" capped as "mine works!" but...

Head... Broken... Unk! (5)
Oct.02.06
	Gamerscore Blog: Burger King Restaurants Feed 2006 Holiday Gift Frenzy with Three Exclusive Xbox/Xbox 360 Games Is it me or do you too get a little tweaked when something from your past collides up with something from your present? Am...

Tokyo Suckerpunch! (1)
Sep.20.06
	Microsoft: Microsoft announced that its fall software update, scheduled for release later this year, will allow all Xbox 360 consoles around the world to output game and movie content in 1080p resolution. 1080p?! Where in the hell did that come...

Clear As Crystal (6)
Sep.07.06
	Playstation 3 fan boys are freaking out. I don't know why - it simply clears up their marketing strategy....

Shame On You All! (0)
Sep.05.06
	Kotaku: Target Gleefully Advertises Broken 360s for Sale Kotaku shouldn't take the sole blame for this, but as they were the most recent to print this - and I would have expected them to know better - they can take...

Boba! (4)
Aug.30.06
	AppleGeeks: APPLEGEEKS LITE 039 ha!...

Why? (4)
Aug.24.06
	Words escape me because, you see, it's real....

Mudslinging (1)
Aug.21.06
	Seems that I've missed a good chunk of mudslinging in the Blogging world over the weekend... guess it's because I try to go "analog" over the weekends. And yeah, while the 360 is hardly analog, at least I'm not tied...

WAH!!!!11 (6)
Aug.11.06
	Service: Paul Thurrot Return: Roughly Drafted Point: Who gives a shit? Honestly. Wah-fuckin'-wah....

Un-Digg'd Stories (1)
Aug.03.06
	By now you've all heard Digg. I've Digg'd a fair amount of stories. I'm used to visiting it daily along with a bunch of other blogs... Too bad it's time it was punted from my reader....

Reflectively Silent (0)
Aug.01.06
	Neopoleon: I love Google. It's not the article you think, but frankly, I'm still at a loss for words... which is probably normal when reading Rory. g It worries me tho... not because of what he did but because I...

Cranky (0)
Jul.11.06
	Geeks. We're easily managed. We like shiny things. We like cool things. We can go for years obsessing over things that begin with x or i. We're easy to please, if supplied with a diet of digital media and caffeine....

Ugh. (5)
Jul.07.06
	CNN: Stacy Martin needed a bird's eye view to see her boyfriend's marriage proposal. Brian Rueckl's proposal came as a 40,000-square-foot message, "Stacy will you marry me?" tilled in a cornfield near the Manitowoc and Kewaunee county line. And I...

Da Bronx! (0)
Jun.30.06
	I'm skipping my usual Friday visit to the gym today. Why? INHD is carrying the YES Network broadcast of the Mets vs the Yankees. You don't understand... I usually only get to catch the game via MLB radio. And, well,...

Yeah, There's Something Wrong With Me (5)
Jun.13.06
	I just got back from buying a Nintendo DS Lite. Why? I dunno. I was originally repulsed by the DS and the touch screen (too many years of PocketPC's) but it eventually tempted me, and now the Lite is 1/3...

Some Days, I Just Don't Understand People: Updated Thrice Over (3)
Jun.11.06
	Yesterday I posted a mini-incident that happened to me and threw out a lil digital homage to the artist of a web comic that I've read for a long, long while now. One that I've so enjoyed that I've passed...

Oof! (0)
May.25.06
	The real problem with beta testing software? Not the testing. Nor the quirks and hoops you have to jump thru, to get it working, no sir! It's when you see something really cool that already works and then realizing that...

Why, Apple, Why? (0)
May.18.06
	InformationWeek: Apple Fixes Firmware, Leaves Users Confused [...] Apple Computer Inc. quietly issued a firmware update Tuesday for its Intel-based systems that users said fixed overheating problems in the MacBook Pro notebook, which has been plagued with heat and noise...

Star Wars? On DVD? (6)
May.04.06
	The Digital Bits: So check this out Force fans. This is no joke and we've bent over backwards to confirm it's the real deal. Our very best industry sources have been checking in over the last couple of days -...

Wow: /. On Penguin Snobbery (1)
Apr.19.06
	/.: Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry --- "It's not Windows. It's not distro wars. Sometimes it's just the arrogant attitude that keeps people from switching from Windows. 'As I spoke to newbies, one Windows user who wanted to...

Time For A Reality Check (3)
Apr.13.06
	It's just a fuckin' calendar application! Google didn't invent time, for feck's sake. They aren't even offering a hand job for using it! Meh. All this digital gushing over Google has made my RSS reader sticky....

New In The Company Store (6)
Apr.07.06
	I was in our company store the other day and busted out laughing. You see, just after Thanksgiving last year a new T-Shirt appeared at the store. The front simply says "geek." in white on black. The back has a...

I'm At A Loss (27)
Apr.05.06
	FurryGoat: [Apple Boot Camp] More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the...

Shhhh - I'm Hunting Betas (2)
Mar.30.06
	For a while now I've been forwarding select addresses from @randyrants.com but I never bothered to change the blog with the new address. After all Hotmail was always convenient because I could access it everywhere - low maintenance and the...

Are You A Tester? (1)
Mar.29.06
	I track about 20 different symbols on my stock list. Aside from the two indices, the rest of the symbols are things that I am currently invested in or things that I know other people are invested in. It's a...

You Are Here --> . (2)
Mar.23.06
	I've been a Geek for nearly my entire life. I remember fiddling with pinball machines, in the days before Pac-Man hit our shores... and I needed to stand on a milk crate to do it. Throughout the years I've always...

Envy (0)
Mar.12.06
	The Best Buy flyer this week has a 12-month Xbox Live Gold Pack priced at $19.99. I figured it was a typo - a quick trip to BestBuy.com confirmed that it was in fact an error: the actual price is...

Reality More Fun Than Games? (1)
Mar.10.06
	Game Revolution has a great write up on the drama that is Gizmondo. The flow chart is simply astonishing, if it's even remotely accurate... I'm betting it's dead accurate which is funny... Ironic: the life and death of the Gizmondo...

World of Warcraft (6)
Mar.06.06
	I guess it's time to come out of the closet with this... I don't play World of Warcraft. In fact, I refuse to play WoW. And when pressed about it, I get very animated about not playing it. Why? No...

Find Out: 03.09.06 (0)
Mar.02.06
	Just like I said last week, there was a lack of research - and common sense - on behalf of the media, concerning The Origami Project. Nothing was released today - Week 2 has simply become enabled, offering a bit...

Fumble at the Fruit Bowl? (2)
Mar.01.06
	Odd. Very odd. It's the day after a "big" Apple announcement day and I have neither jealousy, buyer's remorse, or angst of any kind. I'm confused....

Sight, Beyond Sight (3)
Feb.27.06
	Call me annoyed. I've got a 18" LCD at home and have had it for a while. For such a long while, it only supports VGA - as in no DVI - but it's OK: I don't spend much time...

Damn You EA Sports! (0)
Feb.25.06
	Even after playing Halo 2 almost daily for the last 18 months (with the beta), I've just grew my first Xbox-induced blister, caused by Fight Night 3 for the 360... guess I'll need a BandAid for the next week or...

Lack of Research: Origami Edition (0)
Feb.24.06
	The blurry line between blogging and news reporting is getting worse with each passing day... guess it proves that people will believe anything if it's written down. Like if someone takes the time to write it, it's got to be...

Washington-ism #2: d1gg t3h l33t (3)
Feb.15.06
	I just spent five minutes circling for a place to park at my building at work, as if it was Saturday afternoon at a mall. Ironic, since I had left campus to stop by the mall during lunch, where there...

Trackbacks - Or Lack Thereof (6)
Feb.14.06
	Today Kasia noted that she hadn't gotten a proper trackback to her blog since August. Forgetting that I had trackbacks active, I took a look at my TypePad control panel: I got one in December... but I have only been...

You Have a Meeting in Building 7 (2)
Feb.09.06
	Microsoft: Over the next three years, Microsoft will add 14 buildings and a total of 3.1 million square feet (288,000 square meters) to its corporate campus in Redmond, Wash., enough to provide office space for approximately 12,000 people. Seven of...

Xbox 360 Non Rumors (0)
Feb.03.06
	Gamerscoreblog: Top Ten Bogus Rumors About the Xbox 360 - Around these halls, people love rumors in the same way that we love American Idol. No substance or meaning, but crazy fun to watch (especially when people make fools of...

AAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIGHHHHHHHHHH! (0)
Feb.02.06
	Amazon: What is a Plog?? Your Amazon.com Plog is a personalized web log that appears on your customer home page. Every person's Plog is different (hence the name) and just like a blog, your Plog is sorted in reverse chronological...

Sign of the Anti-Bacterial Times (2)
Jan.30.06
	Over the last couple of weeks, "flu prevention" has sprung up on campus. I guess I should be fair: it's popped up everywhere. Like the gym, Fred Meyer (with free flu shots or whatever), and almost anywhere you look on...

Fred vs AppleCare (0)
Jan.30.06
	Fredart [of megatokyo]: Thanks, Apple. Your 'policies' here really make me wanna stay a loyal Apple fan. I'm not even going to go into my now dead iPod (i refuse to even try to get that repaired) We all know...

Why Didn't I Think of That? (3)
Jan.26.06
	TUAW: So the other night, [...] we had a problem with Jason Calacanis's Powerbook G4. It would boot and run through the loading Mac OS X screen very quickly, but at the point where it was supposed to load the...

The Freedom Of Randy Speech (13)
Jan.24.06
	Over the last four plus years I've had to delete two real comments. Oh, I've deleted buckets of duplicate postings, spam comments and spam trackbacks, sure, but of real comments I've only delete two. And edit one, but that's just...

Digital Frustration (0)
Jan.19.06
	Why in the hell is video so freakin' difficult when it comes to PC's, Game Consoles, and portable devices? Why is it that I have to have three different formats? Different sizes I could live with seeing as not all...

My Life, The Web Comic? (0)
Jan.16.06
	Life imitating art or art imitating life? Either way, this felt like an episode or Penny Arcade or MegaTokyo......

Windows Live Messenger Invites (39)
Jan.12.06
	I've send one out to almost everyone I know and the Windows Live Messenger team continues to stock me full of invites! Again! Time for some standard blog-related share the happiness stuff: first the next five people that post Comments...

Oh Dear God. (14)
Jan.09.06
	TUAW: As I was using my one month old PowerBook yesterday, I was alarmed to see the charging light on the power adapter randomly shift between orange and green. [...] then decided to look up Apple's support document detailing the...

MSN + China + Censorship = Phear (2)
Jan.06.06
	I swear that there are days that I want to leave a flaming bag of dog shit in front Scoble's office door, before knocking and running away. I've had a string of these days in a row now... ever since...

When a MAME Cabinet Goes Awry (0)
Jan.04.06
	Disorder.org: What happens when a bunch of non-mechanically inclined nerds, with no knack for design, decide it would be a good idea to build a MAME (arcade) cabinet? Lots of really ugly shit happens. That's what. There are some truths...

How Many? (2)
Jan.03.06
	I was tooling around the TypePad control panel the other day and was sorta irked that I can't get stats on the RSS pages... not that my stats matter much: I just put stuff out there and tend to forget...

Bullshit Alert (5)
Dec.24.05
	RIAA: Cost of a CD Hah. HAHAHAHAHAH. ahem Snort. cough The question is, which one makes more sense: their explanation or mine (from 2002 no less)?...

Sweet. Jesus. (0)
Dec.14.05
	FurryGoat via Yahoo!: Skirt-chasing playboy Daniel Anceneaux spent weeks talking with a sensual woman on the Internet before arranging a romantic rendezvous at a remote beach -- and discovering that his on-line sweetie of six months was his own mother!...

Luck and Foresight (3)
Dec.06.05
	"You mean you got a 360? You bastard!" I've had this comment shot in my direction at least once every day over the last three... meetings, office visits, lunch, dinner - even at bars. On November 22nd, I had it...

Newbie. (0)
Nov.20.05
	There are some days that you help a hundred newbs. There are days that you are a newb. This weekend, I was a newb for a number of hours....

Potter: The Fourth Movie (2)
Nov.19.05
	I didn't think it was as good as the third, in all honesty. At least from a movie point of view. The first two were rather stiff and felt like a movie adaptation of the books. Three felt like a...

Phishing: +1 Cunning (1)
Nov.17.05
	Just got an email from Amazon, about the 50" Plasma TV that I ordered from Tiger Direct... wait, I didn't order a Plasma TV from Amazon. Or from Tiger Direct. Whew! It knows it might not be me: If you...

Rory on Gaming, /. and Other Happy Things (0)
Nov.14.05
	Neopoleon.com: I never expected Microsoft to make it possible to play original Xbox games on the Xbox 360, and I am thankful. Even though the list of supported titles is rather short right now, it?s still better than nothing. [...]...

Ain't That the Truth? (0)
Nov.12.05
	Creating Passionate Users: Forgiveness is relative. We diss Windows with impunity, but when our Mac does the same thing, well, geeez nobody's perfect. When Clinton lied, US conservatives were morally outraged. When one of their own lies, "This is just...

Public Service Announcement: There Are Real People Online! (0)
Nov.03.05
	The Awful Forums: Oops. Long story short: this thread was started by a kid wanting to know about getting a shotgun. This thread is where the forum realizes that the kid - after getting advice on how to buy a...

To All Things Shiny (0)
Nov.03.05
	I popped over to the store during lunch yesterday to pick up Age of Empires III and it's left me feeling a little strange. After all, the Xbox 360 comes out in under 20 days now. That's a non-trivial upgrade,...

Oh... You're One of Them? (0)
Oct.28.05
	I'm watching a couple of guys replace all of the blinds in my house, at the moment, while keeping up with the post-shipping activities in the office. Guy says to me, "So which division of Microsoft are you in?" Seems...

Getting Your Money Worth (0)
Oct.26.05
	Gizmodo: See, as a woman, I knew there was a reason I learned about technology. Not so I can report on all the fabulous things going on in the industry, but because now I can enjoy things like a Bluetooth...

What is an SDET? (27)
Oct.24.05
	Random work related entry. What is a Software Design Engineer in Test [SDET]? In it's most abstract form, an SDET is a developer that writes software with the purpose of testing other software. In 'softie terms, if SDE writes software...

A Word On Video Podcasting (2)
Oct.20.05
	Yet another post spawned from a FurryGoat IM window. I said it a long time ago... one of the reasons why I like blogs is because I can skim articles. And I like newspapers and books online so I can...

Maybe Comments Aren't A Good Idea... (2)
Oct.03.05
	FurryGoat: This might seem like a silly question, but for the life of me I can't find the answer anywhere. Does anyone know if you can search USENET via MSN Search? It's a simple question and a valid one... having...

iPod But Non-XP Users (0)
Oct.01.05
	For those of you that don't have a Windows 2000 or XP but have an iPod, well, frankly? Upgrade your box. XP is over five years old now, so what's the deal? Jeesh. Anyway, it looks like there's a new...

ACK! (0)
Sep.30.05
	PhoneScoop: Sony and SanDisk today announced Memory Stick Micro, yet another new ultra-small memory card format. The new format will compete with microSD (formerly TransFlash) and MMCmicro (formerly S-Card), which are all roughly similar in size and capability, yet incompatible....

Why Is It Always About 90%? (0)
Sep.26.05
	c\|net: Google's strategy [...] Create a custom version of Linux, lets call it, gOS, so that lay man users can use it to check email, surf the web, include some office s/ware, a generic media player etc. This sums up...

Yeah... What He Said. (1)
Sep.20.05
	Shawn's Thoughts: While I’ve never met Kevin Schofield, I really like him – or at least what he writes. It’s become quite fashionable to kick the crap our of Microsoft lately. Some pretty high-profile folks have left. Our stock sucks....

Lo! I Want To Eat An Apple! (0)
Sep.14.05
	Apple fans give me gout. First it was the banter about the Office12 demo that irked me a good deal. Now it's all of the crybabies in Cupertino that have gone further and truly pissed me off with their babble...

Indeed It's Sad (0)
Sep.13.05
	TUAW: Honestly, I'm trying to get past that old "they're ripping Apple off!" complaint, but then stuff like this shows up and just gets my blood boiling again. You're looking at the recently unveiled interface of Microsoft's forthcoming Office 12....

Oi... IM Edition (0)
Aug.24.05
	Let's get this out of the way: Google didn't invent instant messaging. It hasn't been out for 24 hours yet and I'm already sick to death of it - can we get out of the afterglow already?...

Brundle-ian Moment (2)
Aug.21.05
	I cannot believe I actually took the time to pluck a grey hair off the top of my head this morning. The three that have continuously grown back in my goatee are easily dealt with, since they're right there, but...

Good Timing (28)
Aug.18.05
	Something to be said about good timing... it's saved me a whole lotta time and panic on this fine Thursday....

Maybe It's Just Me... (0)
Aug.02.05
	DownloadSquad: Xandros comes very close to addressing those concerns with their latest Linux distro, which has a foolproof setup utility, comes with KDE configured to be as Windows-like as possible, can read and write to Windows partitions, and includes Crossover...

Ah, The Pursuits Of Science (0)
Aug.01.05
	College Sex Advice: How much water can a condom hold? For some reason, safe sex feels safer, having seen the results....

They Can't Have It! (0)
Jul.20.05
	ESRB has recalled GTA5. I have a copy for the XBox. If they want my copy back, they'll have to frag me first, and what are the odds that a board created to rate video games can actually play one...

Told Ya So (0)
Jul.15.05
	CNET: 'Write once, run anywhere' not working for phones Far be it from me to say the common "I told you so" but I so fuckin' told you so! Over three years ago, too. And yes, "you" know who you...

Ph34r! (1)
Jul.15.05
	ABCNews: Shopping for Dates at Wal-Mart [...] Singles can head to the Roanoke Wal-Mart tonight for the third of the store's weekly singles nights, held every Friday evening. Billed as a way singles can meet their match while filling their...

What's This? No Denim? (5)
Jul.11.05
	TriXie: I know not all of you are offenders, but working at Microsoft I see a host of summer sins that I'd like to go away. Denim shorts. Just don't do it. Girls can do it--in fact I frequently bust...

A Good Case For Birth Control (2)
Jun.30.05
	RedAssedBaboon: Basically, it's a video of a session from the X-Box Live game of Rainbow Six. A kid forgets to turn his microphone off when he starts arguing with his mom about playing the game. While I'm sure we've all...

Thank You MSNBC! (3)
Jun.28.05
	w00t! The latest redesign of MSNBC got rid of the brick of popup menus! I hated the old design. Anytime you rolled anywhere close to the left side of a browser you were treated to a mogambo popup - like...

Social Changes: Bluetooth Edition (7)
Jun.26.05
	Someone needs to get on the news and start talking about wireless hands free kits. Obviously we can't leave it to the carriers - I'm still amazed that any of them are in business, given their tunnel-business-vision. But someone has...

Would You Like A Zip Code For That Ego? (3)
Jun.09.05
	FurryGoat: [Scripting News] Well, even though the vast majority of people have never heard of Steve or myself, we're more influential than John Lennon or Bob Dylan ever were. Um, no. ('nuff said) Actually, I don't know that that is...

Strange Things Are Afoot (3)
Jun.06.05
	When does 1 + 1 = 10?...

Renee'n'Kenny? (4)
May.11.05
	I didn't know where to file it, frankly, but it's a pity Renee Zellweger is now married... And to Kenny Chesney of all people? I guess it works. It's funny cuz like you hear about Pitt and Jolie, a bunch...

Interesting... (2)
Apr.25.05
	Tom's Hardware: Microsoft officially launched the 64-bit client version of Windows XP professional today at WinHEC and announced that it will offer users of 64-bit processors and the 32-bit XP Pro a free upgrade to the new operating system. Classy...

Doh: She's Early! (0)
Apr.22.05
	TUAW: Well, if you didn't order your copy of Tiger directly from Apple, but rather from PCMall or ClubMac, then you may be lucky enough to receive Tiger today. [...] In other news, reportedly somewhere near Infinite Loop, a bearded...

Sour Apple? (7)
Apr.12.05
	Steve: Here comes my rant: I certainly wouldn't mind paying $25 or so for the upgrade, considering I just bought a $700 machine from them 4 weeks ago. However, $129 is freaking ridiculous. He ain't lying. In fact, I'm pretty...

All Praise Sanrio (0)
Apr.04.05
	CNET Asia: Sanrio's annoyingly cute kitty has enveloped the Xbox in its feline embrace [...]and painted the console a girly pink. If Sanrio ever gets out of the products business to form a government lobby, we're all fucked. No one...

As the Digital World Turns (0)
Mar.29.05
	Hillary Clinton via Kotaku: [About Grand Theft Auto] This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it’s OK to diss people because they are a woman, they’re a different color or they’re from a different place. That's...

Pride or Poor Writing? (3)
Mar.28.05
	One of the things that I decided to do with this blog is allowing comments to be posted in an un-molested form, quite unlike a 8 year old boy in Neverland mind. Wait, was that typed outloud? Sorry. Read too...

Blog != (Podcast \|\| vlog) (3)
Mar.21.05
	Blogs are not the same as Podcasting or Vlogging. I've noticed that there's been a report around the blogsphere on coming vlog... vlogs? Video Web Log. Not to be confused with podcasting, which is an audio version of a web...

Horny Digital Dumbass (0)
Mar.09.05
	Reuters: A Los Angeles man who sneaked into Canada in February to see his Internet girlfriend will be deported -- minus all his fingers and some of his toes, the Winnipeg Sun newspaper reported Tuesday. You won't believe the rest...

A Very Simple Question (2)
Jan.24.05
	NeoWin: Microsoft announced today that it will not appeal against the European Union's court order compelling the company to remove Windows Media Player from the Windows XP operating system in Europe. I have a very simple question and it's somewhat...

Ah-Ha! (1)
Jan.18.05
	Ah-ha! I finally figured out what's been irking me so much about all the Apple hype lately and it's got nothing to do with technology....

Misplaced Energies (0)
Dec.28.04
	While riding in the car the other day I heard a news report about a bit of controversy down south. Seems there's a group of people that are all kinds of pissed off that fewer buildings are willing to fly...

Empathy in Numbers (0)
Dec.26.04
	Furrygoat: This, of course, usually has the unfortunate side effect of landing me in some hot water with the family when it comes to proper etiquette. Such was the case with this year's holiday card. ... Well, let me just...

Programmer's Gripe: Hours of Programming (0)
Dec.18.04
	I have a stone in my shoe. The now-daily outcry of "abuse" of EA employees, which was instigated by the wife of an EA employee. It's almost as annoying as being governor-less and finding "new lost" ballots on a daily...

You Are Here (2)
Dec.09.04
	I was sitting in the whirlpool at the gym today, grousing over the fact that for all the places selling digital media no one offers a miniSD card - lots of CF, SD, MMC, xD, and Media Sticks though -...

Resolutions of Many Kinds (0)
Dec.06.04
	A Monday Recap! I finally fixed my MPx200 problems: got an AudioVox SMT5600. Also fixed my music woes: WinAMP and iTunes both helped. Side stepped an inner fear: stayed in an MRI machine for more than five seconds... of course,...

iPod Shame (2)
Nov.30.04
	When I was a kid, I never did well in school. I never saw much of a point to it, in all honesty - to me, grade school was pass or fail. Of course, that never helped to ease the...

Halo 2: Midnight Madness (3)
Nov.08.04
	I remember when CompUSA hosted a "midnight madness" for IE4. I stopped by my local place and there were about a dozen Geeks milling around for a free T-shirt and CD. I was later in those days - still trying...

My First Election in WA (3)
Nov.02.04
	Surreal, to say the least. Complete disconnect between government departments. Chaos during the first 15 minutes of voting. And lots of... paper?...

... (4)
Oct.27.04
	So, like, I leave New England. Normality has left baseball. The Red Sox win the World Series... winning 8 in a row against the Yankees and Cards. "Screw you guys, IIIIII'm goin home." [Cartman]...

Blog Update (0)
Oct.23.04
	I don't understand spammers... they've gotta be dumber than dirt, and I mean that in the worst possible way. I purposely turned off HTML tags for my comments on this site, so you can't put in a URL there. And...

Strangeness in Sports (0)
Oct.09.04
	Odd. The Seattle Storm is playing the Connecticut Sun in the WNBA finals. For me, it's a personal clash between past and present. What even stranger for me is seeing old UCONN female players playing for the local team and...

Jack Daniels Light? (3)
Sep.30.04
	Sorta. This morning, I heard on the Stern show that Jack Daniels has been lowered in proof from 86 to 80 and without any fanfare about the change. The cast speculated as to why they might do this - remeber...

A Quietly Smug Moment (3)
Sep.20.04
	Someone emailed towards the end of last week, wondering why I didn't jump all over two particular topics, one of which was the now "very visible" CBS news reporting debacle... I mean, look at the situation: CBS jumps on a...

Nice To Know... (0)
Sep.14.04
	The Microsoft company-wide annual meeting was held at the McCaw Hall in Seattle Center today. Since there were a limited number of seats available, tickets were collected and ID badges were verified at the door (as well as a check...

Retirement Plan: Localized (2)
Sep.07.04
	How random is the Web? About as random as I seem to be. Over the last 72 hours I've hit the IBM ThinkPad drivers-o-rama center, looked into the doctorate program at University of Washington (and tried to find out if...

An Ode To a Vegan (9)
Aug.30.04
	While adapting to my new environment, I've been chatting up new people in and around town and work. I'm actually enjoying my first bout of almost anonymity, which is something that I haven't had many opportunities to experience before. One...

An Ugly Run of Bad Geek Karma (0)
Jul.28.04
	If this was a glass was seen by some as half empty and others as half full, my glass has been thrown off a balcony for all the see as broken......

MT Shit the Bed. Again. (7)
Jul.05.04
	Insert an unhappy expression here. Between my hosting company and my blogging engine, my entire Blog went belly up about 10 hours ago. It's back on its feet now and I think everything works. I know that I lost a...

Ironic? I Think Not (2)
Jul.01.04
	For the most part, I was out of work in CT for about eight months, before I landed a full time job in WA [state - grr]. While I was unemployed, I landed a couple of contracts that helped pay...

Computer-Related Darwin Award Candidate (3)
Jun.26.04
	Woe unto me. I'm nominating myself for a Darwin Award. Well, a computer-esque one anyway, seeing as I'm still alive. My work computer, however, is not because I killed it. And I had help too, but it was of my...

The First 24 Hours (8)
Jun.13.04
	Why is this filed under "digital pity"? Because I don't have any reliable Internet access! Oh, sure, I can go to a Starbucks and pay $6/hour for it. I could walk seven or eight blocks to the public library for...

Blogging Coma (3)
Jun.08.04
	Not too bad for writing, but my God, am I backlogged on my news and Blog reading....

Milestone (0)
May.11.04
	Go to Google. Type in "Boston Sucks". Click "I'm Feeling Lucky". You'll find your way back to this site. Some how, this article became first in line within the Google's data storage system, for the phrase Boston Sucks [I've got...

Um... (12)
May.03.04
	I was browsing some things over Amazon - mostly looking for a new set of headphones, since the Apple iPod In-Ear model can't compare to the Sony Fontopia pair that I lost an ear thing for - and I noticed...

GUI's Useless? (1)
Apr.08.04
	The other day, Steve was telling me about an email based debate over the "bloat of the Windows GUI" layer and how a computer should only ever need a command prompt to be useful. I was going to leave it...

w00t! (0)
Apr.03.04
	And again, Christopher Anthony is the Blog, but this time, it's a little different. He's gone off and gotten a fist full of Windows OS and application discs and has decided to experience Windows first hand, since he hasn't worked...

New Category Added (0)
Mar.29.04
	What is "digital pity" exactly? It's a place that will host commentary for statements like this: "There are several people who have asked me about how Linux compares to Longhorn. I have decided to answer those questions here." I have...

Ah, Well, it's Time. (11)
Mar.29.04
	Christopher Anthony must have even more free time on his hands than I do, which is a sad state to live in. How can I say that? He actually took the time to rebut my analysis of his website, although...

Piece of (Worthless) Work, Part II (4)
Mar.27.04
	Christopher Anthony: "Less than 5 minutes online getting critical updates I got three viruses, I hosed the drive and now I use Linux totally." Seems the dipshit lost his computer to a power surge and bought a new IBM PC...

Piece of (Worthless) Work (4)
Mar.26.04
	Christopher Anthony: I decided to start this blog as a way to keep up with the rise of Linux and the downfall of Microsoft and Windows. Due to recent happennings in the Europe, Microsoft appears to be losing its dominace...