Today at work someone brought me a DVD, asking if I could print out the drawings that were on it. I’ve done this sort of thing plenty of times before, our printer has 11X17 paper loaded so we get survey and blueprint drawings that need to be printed all the time. The one thing I…
Yes, I talked about it when I had a snow day, but the bad CD drive kept me from actually doing it, so today, finally with some free time, I started the install of Ubuntu 6.10 on the old desktop machine I had gotten from work. Install went fine, got all 138 software updates, and…
So Angela and I scored some passes to the premiere of Zodiac earlier this week. It was a pretty good, intense, dramatic kind of movie. But I felt like something was missing. See, towards the end of the movie Jake Gyllenhaal’s character becomes completely obsessed with finding out who the Zodiac Killer is, and “solving…
After seeing this post at USA Today about retro commercials on YouTube, and following all the comments and checking out the commercials, I can only come to one conclusion. I need to spend more time hanging around YouTube. Yeah, I totally grew up seeing that Mount Airy Lodge commercial all the time too, it’s awesome!…
I know you’ve all heard a bout Twitter, and how all the cool kids are using it to tell each other what they’re up to every minute. Ever since the first time I read about it, my thought has always been “why?”. Seriously, how many people on earth care about what you’re doing at any…
According to eWeek, there’s an argument to be made that it is: That’s because IT shops have had less notice in dealing with the time change than they did for Y2K, and because the issue doesn’t have visibility at the highest levels of an organization as it did for Y2K. Actually, I think I agree…