... my DSL line goes down in the the last three minutes or so of a 3+ gigabyte ISO image download of the Fedora 9 install DVD.

Grrrr. Maybe it's just the universe's way of telling me that I should just wait 11 days for Fedora 10 to be released....

So I decided to break down and upgrade my phone to the new T-Mobile G1. I'd been kind of thinking about it (even though I don't normally like to be so far on the "bleeding edge" with things that I actually depend on), but the point was driven home firmly last Saturday when my phone hung (not in the "hung up the phone" sense, but in the "frozen, ( Read more... )

This is from our Lotus Notes e-mail system at work. It is the result of "replicating" my e-mail (basically, taking any e-mails I've composed recently and sending them out, and bringing in any recently delivered e-mails to into the local copy of my e-mail database - yeah, Notes stores e-mails in a database, of sorts...). Normally it'll say ( Read more... )

If I decide later on that I don't like who I voted for, can I show them my receipt and exchange my vote for a different one?

Inquiring minds want to know...

I just got a reminder e-mail about a "webinar" (I hate that word...) that I'm registered for tomorrow. Which, in the first place, I don't understand why they're doing, since it's not interactive or anything, it's basically just a canned presentation. So I don't understand why they don't just record the presentation, and let you view it anytime, ( Read more... )

The majority of this post is under a cut, since it contains spoilers for the computer game Portal (which is part of Valve's The Orange Box set). Basically, it gives away the ending of the game. So, if you are currently playing Portal, or if you anticipate playing it in the future, you might not want to read this post. Of course, I'm told that ( Read more... )

For those who don't follow baseball, you can still benefit from this ( Read more... )

This is from about three weeks ago, just now getting around to posting. Taken at Market Square, near the intersection of Graeme Street and Forbes Avenue (if you go here on Google Street View, you can see the actual storm drain on the corner, on Graeme Street).


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So I open one of my credit card statements last night, and find two charges for $89 from Register.com, and one $89 credit from them. Problem is, I don't do business with them - I have fairly cheap DNS registrations through a friend who is an OpenSRS reseller (or, more accurately, "was" an OpenSRS reseller, as he's since transferred that part of ( Read more... )

Supposedly, T-Mobile is beginning to ship the HTC G1 phone (a/k/a the "Google Phone" - based on Google's "Android" platform) ahead of schedule. It wasn't supposed to ship until the 22nd of this month. But according to this article, they've already started shipping, and customers who pre-ordered could have their G1 as early as tomorrow ( Read more... )