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It isn’t typically my style to hotlink webcomics but if this isn’t just the perfect expression of how I, and so many of my friends, view their love-hate-love relationship with the internet.

Apparently comments haven’t been working on my posts. But apparently that doesn’t matter because no one thought to tell me until now. So, at first I thought “no one is leaving me comments, no one reads this blog” but really it’s “No one is telling me that they can’t leave comments, no one reads this [...]

When hardcore Mac users whine about using Microsoft products its 100 times more annoying than using Windows. What you believe to be a shortcoming of the software may just be that you are unfamiliar with it. Get over yourself and figure it out.

I’ve been using Linux as my main operating system for some time now. I really enjoy using it for my day to day computing. Unfortunately in order for me to do anything musical I have to reboot the machine back into Windows. This is mainly because my audio card doesn’t work so well under Linux. [...]

About that new Network Manager in Ubuntu 8.10 that everyone thinks is so great: I just uninstalled that over-designed piece of crap. I use a static IP and since it kept selecting DHCP by default (even when I told it not to and even when I thought I removed the DHCP settings from the manager). [...]

So I plugged in my removable drive this morning and it kept clicking clicking clicking clicking and never gave me so much as an error on my screen. This is usually a bad sign for hard drives but I have observed some weird NTFS permissions issues that occur when I move this drive between my [...]

Sometimes the only way to find an answer to a problem is to talk to other people. Even if you don’t get a definite solution, sometimes I think commiseration is it’s own solution. It feels better to know your feelings aren’t coming from your own imagination and that something that makes you unhappy makes someone [...]

This lady upstairs called me and said that her computer was “making this crazy noise.” I can actually hear the noise over the phone and it sounds like a loud CPU fan (but it would have to be super loud to be heard over the phone). I connect to the machine via dameware and the [...]

I have been helping my Whiskerino friend Scrivener set up his new Wordpress stand-alone site.
On the surface things may not appear to be much different compared to the stock theme Scriv selected, but I changed a lot under the hood to get some of the functionality he wanted. The exciting part was being able [...]

“So are you making any headway?”
“Yeah. It’s done. I put the PC next to ______’s desk.”
“Oh ok. So what was the problem?”
“Well he just has a lot of…. stuff on it.”
“What kind of stuff.. I mean.. how did it get there?”
“uhm.. he downloaded it. ”
“Yeah, well kids are kids.. but he should know the rules.”
“Uh… [...]