Blogoscoped has an amusing article about what GMail might have been like if it had been designed by Microsoft. Much weeping and gnashing of teeth is to be expected, but also a good laugh. Check it out.
The blogoscoped article is very much in the same spirit as the now venerable, but still excellent “What if […]
People who are e-mail subscribed to my blog may have noticed that recently they have been receiving two or more e-mails notices instead of the usual one. This seems to be the result of a recent Wordpress update not playing nice with my subscription plugin. I’ve updated the plugin and hopefully that will resolve the […]
I saw Lancelot & Legadema as they were just waking up from a nap together and thought them all together too cute:
I’m getting seriously sick of cars right about now. Damned expensive, unreliable, hunks-a-junk on wheels.
Our red Honda Accord that was given to us three months ago broke down last week due to a shot transmission. Seeing as a new transmission would run us about $600 and the car is worth $50, there goes that one; […]
While messing around with Google Maps to see how far I’m walking from St. Cloud State to the Library (0.8 miles) I discovered a new feature in my map client-o-choice. Called “customize your route” you can now drag and drop the route indicator on the maps. The implementation is still a little rough around the […]
Well, it certainly has been an expensive couple of days, good grief.It all began with Lancelot. Larissa observed a few days ago that he had some blood in his stool. After deciding to wait a while and see if the situation improved we also noticed that he was drinking rather larger quantities of water than […]
Looking for a junkie movie to half watch, half MST3K, Larissa and I rented the unfortunately named Black Snake Moan. From the ads we’d seen it looked like a sleazy drama-wannabe with a scantly clad Rae (Christina Ricci) being jerked around (literally) by an overbearing Lazarus (Samual L. Jackson); beating some sense into the […]
A few months ago I suffered a complete hard drive failure on my home-built PC resulting in a need to reinstall windows from a partial backup. The process was… unpleasant. At some point I got hung up and did a Google search which brought me to a wonderful little gem: “How to Install Windows in […]
Sometimes you see something that really blows you away, something that gives you a new appreciation for the beauty people are capable of creating. That was my reaction when reading about Damanhur, a series of nine temples carved underground in northern Italy. Occupying 300,000 cubic feet (!) and opulently decorated it’s almost unbelievable that it […]
I do keep doing this don’t I? Have a little posting streak and then drop off again not to be heard from for months at a time. It really is getting rather tiring. In an effort to keep myself from sliding into the land of never-heard-from-again too soon I’ve decided to issue myself a “Pic-or-Post […]