You remember my plan to take Wednesdays off? Well, I took this last Wednesday off—but spent half the day answering email from home anyway, just to catch up. And yesterday I spent nearly 12 hours at work. And today? I topped 15 hours. So this vacation thing didn't happen exactly...
I saw this earlier today at Jalopnik—it's a 1994 Lincoln Mark VIII heavily modified to feature the coolest doors this side of Countach. Or this side of Z1, for you car nerds out there...or anyone who's seen Armour of God II: Operation Condor: Jackie Chan's most hot-doggin' movie. I realize...
Have you ever had to clean out the filter and trap at the bottom of a dishwasher? Totally gross. This thing smells like death....
I recently bought a replacement inkjet cartridge for my printer/scanner, and noticed that HP had thoughtfully included a postage-paid return envelope in which to mail back and recycle my spent containers. "This is pretty neat," I thought, "and it seems like HP's responsibility department was able to wrestle some money...
The Superest is awesome stuff. Two professional cartoonists square off in a battle of My Team, Your Team inspired by fellow webgoers. The stakes are high, and the aftermath is hilarious. Start at the bottom. Each successive superhero is designed solely to vanquish the prior...and to amuse!...
Things I've broken in the last 24 hours:The mini-USB cable to my USB hub. This is acceptable—I've got a million of these little cords. My wireless keyboard. I dropped it on the floor, and the batteries appear to have been leaking acid all over the connectors for months. I had...
I think I've fixed all of the problems that cropped up during my hosting migration. Hopefully, this will be the last post about the exciting world of configuring a hosting installation. If you hit problems (with feeds, etc.) please drop me a comment. If you hit problems with the comments...
The last post in my migration from Debian to Windows Server 2003 reads strikingly similar to my latest hosting migration post. My RSS feed generator appears to be particularly problematic. Exciting times....
Everyone enjoy your roast beast, now...
RSS/Atom feeds will be fixed in the next few days. Pictures are ... still being uploaded....
Correction: screw the jumpers. Whoever thought of putting two (but no more than two) drives on a single cable can bite me. Single endpoint. Or a boatload. And of course, enough host ports to drive this whole mess....
I've hit a few bumps getting everything moved over.Comments are down, so don't even try. I'll have this fixed by tomorrow night. No images. I'm sure you figured this out. Old RSS/Atom feed links are broken, but I'll try to have that fixed shortly. It appears there are some miscellaneous...
Everybody update your bookmarks. http://www.milkmandan.org/dev/null A few notes:home.milkmandan.org will still work for the near future. Until your DNS gets updated, you'll get this page. Afterward, you'll probably get an annoying redirection page. But at least you don't get nothing. Other journals I host are unaffected, although they'll be moved to...
Part of the Zune 2 experience is the currently-in-beta Zune social website, a somewhat less awkward approach to music community than the wifi-powered song sharing heavily advertised in Zune 1. I've got an account at the Zune site, and it displays something called a Zune card, which is a Flash-based...
I've got three things to note about the Fry's Electronics down in Renton:It's now surrounded by a Lowe's, a Target, and what appears to be the world's biggest PetSmart. None of these stores were there three months ago. The checkout line is increasingly looking like a convenience store. While waiting...
I've just pulled the trigger on some shared hosting for the site. The net effect to you is that my site will be faster and won't be down nearly as often. The net effect to me is that I'm very slightly poorer, and have something fun to do while I...
A pox on any land-before-time PATA harddrive PCB or label designer who didn't include text or diagrams for master/slave jumper settings. You should have known better....
This is a really old cameraphone picture of Manuel taking a cameraphone picture of the front end of a BMW E32 7 Series sedan. The license plate translates roughly to, out of the way!...
This sort of thing used to happen all of the time, but I haven't seen it in quite a while. It appears that someone on a quasi-major website has borked their web-app configuration badly enough that Apache is spitting out directory listings. In specific, the site is Gizmodo, the Gawker...
It's nearly 3:45pm, and I've just realized that the shirt I'm wearing isn't the one I thought I put on this morning....
As you may have heard, the Zune 2 hardware and updated Zune software launched today. For me, the big news is that the updated firmware and desktop software all work seamlessly with my oh-so-last-year Zune 30. Highlights include wireless sync (supported by UPnP, the Vista implementation of which is owned...
High winds are predicted for Seattle (and suburbs) today. High winds bring down trees. And downed trees take out my power and cable access. So if /dev/null is down today, it's because a tree is down. Hopefully not across the house....
Many thanks to all of the in-town Techies who attended last night's Mexifest/birthday party! Verily, an evening of most enjoyed company. P.S. This picture features all attendees cool enough to wear a mini-sombrero for the entire night....
I've had good times and bad in my exercise regimen. While in the 20/20 program, I had no problem making my training appointments...but exercising outside of my scheduled times didn't really happen, especially near the end of the program. And since I was only meeting my trainer 3 times a...
I've finished my first real MSDN post and I'm out of words for the day. Enjoy...
I'm in the difficult position of having to burn some vacation time before the year ends. It's rough. The thing is that I've got a big backlog of non-work work I'd like to do, and don't really feel like splitting town without taking care of all of that first (nor...
We carved pumpkins for Halloween. Although, it appears to me like Darth needs to spend some time on the stair climber. He's looking a bit flabby and ... misshapen....
I used to abhor HTML mail. It was typically ugly stuff, took forever to load, and didn't render particularly cleanly on my pine terminal. And plus, people who wrote mail in HTML editors were unsophisticated wannabes who lacked hardcore. And then I climbed out of my dungeon of nonproductivity and...
It's been about three weeks since I originally commented on Kenna's sophomore release, Make Sure They See My Face, and I've spent an awful lot of that time listening to it. I think I was a bit premature in my initial opinion, and I want to update that I feel...
Have you ever run across an empty page at the end of a standardized test that read, This page intentionally left blank. Doesn't this make you want to stand up and yell, "no, you're wrong!"...
Hey hey, it's time for another laptop review! This time around it's the Lenovo Thinkpad R61e, the Chevrolet Cavalier of Thinkpads. Actually, it's not a terrible piece of equipment. In fact, the case is fantastic and the keyboard has excellent tactility. The rest of the componentry (and design) borders somewhere...
Yesterday morning I heard a caller on our local NPR affiliate talk about a really lame "haunted house" he went to in Texas. It's called a Hell House. I hadn't heard of these things before—apparently they're really popular in the south and anywhere else with a thriving fundamentalist movement. I...
