I'm not sure I've ever been quite this bored at work ( Read more... )

I'm visiting my folks for a while (I'm here until tomorrow), and the water main just broke down the street.

We have no water until it's repaired, and we don't know when that will be.

This is starting to sound really familiar...

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned them before, but 35th Parallel are really quite good... I'm listening to their newest download of the month (a free track off their website that for whatever reason isn't going to make it onto an album), and it's kind of neat.

Go check them out, and go see them in concert sometime, if you have the chance.

Since I almost never post about the good (or at least interesting) parts of my job....

I just got to spend the morning playing with Skype. For those of you who don't know, it's a voice over IP (VOIP) application that basically lets you make phone calls over the internet. If you're calling someone else who has skype, it's free, if you're calling ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to farwing and catharine!

Hope your day goes well!

I generally try to avoid the completely political here, but I thought this was an interesting article.

Basically, it's a commentary on the problems with computerized voting machines, with some interesting pieces that I hadn't heard before. It's a little long, but it's an interesting read.

I finally found the piece of Macintosh history I've been looking for: The Wild Eep.

I just found an archive of old mac sounds

There is something really, really wrong with Microsoft Update today. I've installed the same update (KB832483) four times through the automatic update system, and I'm on install number three through the manual update system. All on the same computer, of course ( Read more... )

Well... I just wrote about the whole thing here, so I'm not going to repeat everything.

Suffice to say, Pedlar's End is now one step further from falling down.

This makes me happy.

No matter how many times I've checked to confirm I'm erasing the correct disk, starting up a disk wiper like DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) always makes me nervous.

Now, I just have to wait a long time for it to finish...