Yesterday we went to a store called Marshall’s, which is part of the TJ Maxx group. It’s basically the same store with a different name. I bought this Wusthof chef’s knife for $25 (it might not be the exact same knife, but it sure as hell looks…
Holly isn’t feeling well and is asleep. I grabbed my powerbook and flopped on the couch here, put on “The Mask” and loaded up Poker Room and started playing a free Sit and Go match. 10 minutes later, I had took my $100 of play money to $500. The…
As a followup on the DVR saga, Comcast called three times today to come by and service my cable television. Guess the guy from yesterday “forgot” to cancel the second service call. I called and lectured a supervisor about the idiotic string of failures. I spoke with a lady who…
I have been properly punished by the TiVo gods for my decision to defect to Comcast’s DVR. Let’s see, where do we begin. Last week, I called Comcast and ordered a DVR and requested to move the digital box to the bedroom. They scheduled the service for between…
Well, I feel like I have hit the big times. I just deleted 65 trackback spams. I feel like someone noticed. Hooray! (well, really, Thanks to the new anti-spam features in MT 3.2).…
I just got off the phone to order a Comcast High Defination Digital Video Recorder to replace the TiVo. Why you may ask? Well, there were a dozen stories today about TiVo locking down shows based on flags set in the broadcast. This feature of the Macrovision copy protection scheme.…
Today, I got an e-mail from Classmates.com telling me that Erin Svalstad sent me a message. I didn’t recognise the name so I logged in and looked at it… one of our senior class officers got married and was notifying us that the Class of 1996 would hold…
I believe that I accomplished a minor feat in the world of Movable Type hacks, and it required no Perl or SQL knowledge at all. I set up Holly’s blog on her site tonight. They’re both hosted on the same box, and use apache’s domain based virtual…