Today, while looking at one of my old posts, I discovered that RoadFly’s boards — previously a BMW-oriented site, and the home of bimmer.org — have been completely fucked up by some sort of corporate sell-out. This is quite annoying, and naturally broke the link in my old post.
After some digging through the new [...]
My Netgear WGR614 v6 router had served me faithfully for about 1.5 years, but it has been acting up lately: slowing traffic significantly, dropping connections, etc. This morning, it stopped routing packets to the WAN entirely. Will it work when I get home tonight, after being turned off all day? Perhaps. And if it does, [...]
Some foolishness never dies. Yet again this year (on MySpace this time), I’m receiving messages from friends saying, “Don’t buy gas on May 15 (or whatever day)! It’ll hurt the oil companies! That’ll show ‘em!”
In April 1997, there was a “gas out” conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a [...]
MySpace is truly the worst website on the Internet. I noticed spam bulletins coming from one of my friend’s accounts today. I went to her page to send her a message to let her know, and lo and behold, I got redirected to this page:
http://login.myspace.cfm.fuseaction.splash.mytoken.76701a26.da3e.44a3a17b.794380e6.com/da3e/index.php
See the screenshot. It’s designed to look like a MySpace login [...]
I don’t normally find much to read in the local left-wing free rag, but this opinion piece by Amy Mordan perfectly sums up how we adults living in The Real World view the annoying, foul-mouthed, disrespectful college students in our midst:
I want to be a Cal Poly student. I want to be a card-carrying part [...]
I reinstalled and updated McAfee VirusScan on my mom’s computer today, and made some annoying discoveries. First, the update functionality is implemented as an ActiveX control. Second, the main interface itself (the SecurityCenter) is also implemented with ActiveX controls, cleverly displayed in a disguised Internet Explorer window.
Now, am I the only one who finds it [...]
I had a phone line installed in my new apartment today. Within two hours of plugging in my telephone, I received my first phone call… from a goddammed computer with “an offer for recipients of Medicare”.
WHAT?? I’m twenty-fucking-eight, for Christ’s sake! What makes you think that I’m a recipient of Medicare??
My new phone number went [...]
You don’t realize how important your thumb is in your daily life until you can’t use it.
I somehow managed to jam my left thumb while going for a loose ball during the basketball game this morning. On my ride home this evening, shooting pain helped me identify the following actions which require my left thumb:
Pulling [...]