At 2 pm today I sat down to watch two sporting events – The final match of the World Cup on TV and the Boston Red Sox vs. the Chicago White Sox on MLB.TV. My baseball game is tied and they just keep on playing. Six hours later we’re in the 19th inning and still …
Last week I went down to Santa Monica for work and to visit Todd, Chris and Ellie. Todd’s been biking to work recently, so he let me borrow his car during the week. When I went down to the garage to leave on Wednesday morning, I found that his back window had been smashed and …
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They’re missing a few things like Bubbler instead of water fountain and jimmies, but it seems pretty good otherwise. I wonder where that dixie comes from? There should also be a California test which asks you if you call it “5”, “I-5” or “The 5”. My Linguistic Profile: 55% General American English 25% Yankee 10% …
I’m staying with Todd this week I have been reintroduced to one of the world’s worst human interfaces – dual shower knobs. Which one is hot and which one is cold? They sure do look pretty, but would it really be a problem to put a red and blue sticker on them? ‘H’ and ‘C’? …
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It hurts your wrist to hold a toothbrush. I promised myself that I wouldn’t start on Grand Theft Auto I got for Christmas until Yahoo! Tech shipped. It did and I may have overdone it. The PSP‘s buttons seem to aggrevate the same parts of my right wrist that mice do when I use them …
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Problem: Anne’s the household event planner. I have only vague ideas of when these events/vacations/trips will occur. Anne does not like this. Solution: Connect the pieces Anne’s Tungsten T3 Palm Desktop iSync iCal WebDAV on OS X Remote Calendar Add-in for Outlook 2003 Jeff’s Outlook Calendar Result: Automatic calendar sharing. Marital bliss. (?)
If I’ve been scarce and frantic for the last few months, you now know why: Yahoo! Tech It’s been a long time since I started looking for people to help build this. We’ve been working very hard to create a different kind of tech site, one that’s NOT for people like me, but for the …
I’ve finally caught up to the current episode of ‘Lost’. What’s the big deal with watching 40+ hours of television? I did most of it while running. I decided if I was going to keep myself interested in running then I better have something good to entertain me. I downloaded all the episodes and watched …
In the 80’s, HBO would fill up the time between movies by running short films. One I remember well was All Summer in a Day. It’s the story of a class of schoolchildren on Venus. It rains all day every day there. One day the Sun comes out for an afternoon. The flowers bloom, the …
WordPress (the software that runs this blog) was recently upgraded to fix some security issues. I loathe updating WordPress because it’s such a manual process. Copy this here, check that, download this, blah blah blah. It doesn’t help that the instructions are mostly written for people who only have FTP access to their web hosting …