First off, if you haven’t yet read the Interdictor blog, go there now and read it from the beginning. This guy has been in New Orleans since before hurricane Katrina hit, and working at a web service provider company with a backup generator and whatnot, has been able to be online throughout the entire thing. […]
I’ve been traveling a lot recently, and rather than bring my expensive original DVDs with me, I’ve been looking at different ways of backing them up using my Mac, so I can view them on the road, but not have to worry about accidentally leaving them in the hotel room. After researching, I’ve come up […]
…I could get rid of the very loud car stereo from all the way across the parking lot that woke me up this morning.
I’d been meaning to scan this in ever since my San Diego trip, written by my friend Dave’s girlfriend:
I’m a little fuzzy on the exact circumstances, but I believe I gained ‘hero’ status because I agreed with her on some point during dinner that Dave didn’t. Still, nice to be a 5-minute hero every once in a while. 😉
From a ling on Benito Cereno’s blog:
Man, what the hell was I thinking letting this sit on my shelf for ten months? (…and yes, I think that’s a record for being a lazy-ass with my Netflix rentals.) Sure, it’s a feel-good tear-jerker, but man is it a good one. And it’s got rockets! That blow up! And it’s funny! C’mon!
NASA! Rockets! Geeks in the 50s! You know you want it!
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Well, we just lost power in the house for about fifteen seconds, but it’s nice to the that the UPS that the server is running on actually works. I should probably remember to install the PowerChute software on the new machine soon, so if I happen to be asleep at, say, 1:53 am, it’ll turn itself off if the battery runs out.
P.S.: Remind me to buy a bigger UPS at some point, so it’ll run on battery for more than 16 minutes.
