Things That Have Died Since We Bought The House

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Things that have died since we bought the house on May 3rd:
1. Jeep Starter
2. Jetta Battery
3. Desktop Computer
4. 32″ LCD TV
5. DVD player
6. XBox 360
7. Gary Coleman
1-5 have been repaired or replaced. I’ll get a new XBox eventually. Gary Coleman will never be replaced.

Dear HTML5 Video Element

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Dear HTML5 Video Element,
Wake me when you support fullscreen. Thanks.

My Failed Attempts at Using Acronis True Image instead of Windows Backup

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

These notes were taken as I started having trouble with Acronis True Image Home 2009 (and later ATI 2010). They were taken as the problems happened and solutions were tried, so it isn’t formatted as a nice and pretty story. It also doesn’t include new problems, like “why doesn’t consolidation actually consolidate the backups?”. I [...]

The Freaks in My Office

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

These are just my immediate coworkers, not everyone in the company/building… and I’m sure I am missing a few.
http://www.darkdaysdawn.com/
http://www.pyromantic.com/
http://www.juan2003.com/
http://bigbaldbastard.com/
http://www.michael9.com/
http://www.evilburn.com/
http://solidmercurie.blogspot.com
http://pompy704.blogspot.com/
I will probably update this list when the 40% of my team that isn’t represented here starts feeling left out…
[UPDATE: added Big Pomp's site]