Status Updates
- Dear Borders: even at your "store closing" sale where everything is 30% off, your prices are STILL higher than Amazon's. No wonder.
332 days ago - Went to the bank today wearing this shirt [http://goo.gl/GbGpO] and the teller said, "Oh, you must work at Orange Julius". Serves me right.
348 days ago - Just installed CM7 RC1 on my HTC EVO. Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) is looking pretty good. It's pleasantly refined and snappy.
349 days ago - There's this phenomenon in workplaces where people will just devour any kind of food that's left out in common areas. Prank ideas abound.
431 days ago - I wouldn't want to live/work somewhere unless I could wear flip-flops and a t-shirt to work in the middle of November.
443 days ago
- Dear Borders: even at your "store closing" sale where everything is 30% off, your prices are STILL higher than Amazon's. No wonder.
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Gmail scare, Pobox, WebFaction and procmail
In light of the recent Gmail bug that wiped out everything for a couple hundred thousand accounts (which were later restored, by the way), I thought it might be a good idea to set up a hot spare, poop-has-hit-the-fan email … Continue reading
The service Google doesn’t know it needs
I like using an email address at my own domain. Why? It’s portable. My email address can’t be held hostage by any single hosting provider or ISP. I own the domain, so I can move to a different email provider … Continue reading
Good image hosting is hard to find
Recently, we’ve been trying to unload stuff we no longer need/want onto eBay and Craigslist. Being the meticulous/neurotic/obsessive-compulsive person that I am, I like to provide no fewer than 10-15 high-quality photos of each item we list (depending on the … Continue reading
How I (might) roll: off-site backups
Knowing is half the battle According to Backblaze, June is Backup Awareness Month, so my timing on this post is superb. Everyone who uses a computer knows (or should know) they’re supposed to be making regular backups of their precious … Continue reading
Google Apps: impressions after 14 months
More than a year ago, I decided to switch my personal email account from Gmail to Google Apps Premier Edition. The logic behind that move is laid out in a previous post, so I won’t rehash what’s already been said. … Continue reading
How I roll: outsourcing critical services
Warning: this post is moderately technical in nature. I think it’s the first technical post I’ve done in almost five years here, so I apologize in advance if it’s too geeky for you. I’m trying a new feature around here … Continue reading
My world-famous hamburger recipe
Now that summer has officially arrived (in Tucson, anyway), it can mean only one thing: time to clean off the grill and pile on the red meat. I made some pretty decent burgers last night using my time-tested recipe, and … Continue reading
Merry Christmas 2008!
Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope this year finds you happy and healthy. Here’s some good stuff from Luke 2:8–14 to think about: And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by … Continue reading
More ominous than usual
It’s weird how a single cold, rainy, windy, and cloudy day can alter your mood when you’re used to 300-some sunny days a year. Good thing Christmas is coming soon to cheer things up, because the forecast this week looks … Continue reading