"Murphy was an optimist!"
Reality Service Annoucement November 13, 2008 12:46 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeWe interrupt this regularly scheduled day for a brief panic attack. That is all. Carry on.
add a commentHarragut November 12, 2008 8:04 pm
Posted by utterz in : Daily Life, Podcasting
Bad move xm radio November 12, 2008 2:48 pm
Posted by utterz in : Daily Life, PodcastingMobile post sent by djuggler using Utterli. Replies. mp3
Da da dum daaa November 12, 2008 12:29 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, TechnologyA moment of silence please. My motherboard on my ever importance workhorse of a desktop I use for everything Internet personal and business has died. Yesterday the computer spontaneously turned off 8 times. This morning it would not turn on at all. Assuming it was just dust inside, I went to clean the machine this morning and discovered at least 5 capacitors that were leaking and partially exploded. I need this machine working so I may try replacing the bad capacitors but more than likely it is my turn for an upgraded computer. Fortunately, the college student’s "gaming" computer appears available. He won’t be pleased but it will make due for me in this pinch.
add a commentCar accident gleason and gallaher view November 11, 2008 5:25 pm
Posted by utterz in : Daily Life, Podcasting
Is hate worth the trouble? November 11, 2008 3:28 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cathy, Communications, Daily Life, Family, TechnologyI’ve just been on the phone with Sprint because one of their customers has left a pseudo-threatening/hateful comment on my wife’s blog. They advised immediately filing a police report so that their corporate security department could escalate the issue faster than if I handle it myself. I really don’t like giving hateful people this much attention. It’s best if they just go away. People, the Internet is far from anonymous! In cases like this, you don’t leave a bread crumb trail; you leave a paved boulevard.
1 comment so farBack in Business November 11, 2008 1:22 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeIt could be that Firefox kept running my machine out of memory. I’m going to be watching its memory usage closely to make sure on of the many plugins I use doesn’t have a memory leak. Additionally, I have never cleaned out my bookmarks. That means, every url I bookmarked since Firebird version 0.7 I still had. Also my history had every day’s usage remembered back through June. I deleted every bookmark (since those are all duplicated on Delicious anyway. And I cleared my history (which was a little disconcerting because I do go through that history regularly and pull things out that I need). Back to work.
1 comment so farTired of Daylight November 11, 2008 11:44 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeI’m seriously thinking of flipping days and nights. I’d much rather sleep through the day and work through the night.
add a comment3rd crash November 11, 2008 11:04 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life10am and the machine just crashed again. Time to take it apart and troubleshoot.
add a commentFirefox Crash Recovery Fails November 11, 2008 11:01 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Communications, Software, TechnologyMy workstation is having trouble. I suspect a piece of hardware is dying or a huge dust bunny is wrecking havoc inside the case. It spontaneously reboots a few times a day which is not really a problem because I wouldn’t take breaks otherwise and Firefox always comes back in the same state as before the crash…well, almost always. I don’t help myself because of the way I use the computer. I have many apps open at once and typically will have multiple Firefox windows open with 10 to 20 tabs open in each one. This is how I do research and it is typically work related or blog related. In today’s instance I had 4 windows open. 3 were work related and 1 was filled with information I might one day blog about. These are usually just bookmarked at Delicious for that day I finally get a round to it. Considering my machine was having trouble and I had far too many tabs open, I was just starting to bookmark everything and reduce my windows down to the very few I needed when the computer crashed hard. Upon coming back up, Firefox opened to just a single blank window…no tabs. I needed that work related research! I can reproduce it but this is just frustrating!
So, is there a way to tell Firefox, "restore the previous, previous state?" I think I’m faced with scrolling through the mornings history and pulling up pages one at a time.
11commentsThis pit is bottomless November 11, 2008 9:43 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : PhilosophyNo one told me Sh*t Creek had waterfalls! And tall waterfalls. With rocks at the bottom. Where’s that paddle?!
add a commentHow’s dinner? November 10, 2008 10:05 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Amy, Cathy, Daily Life, Evan, Family
Twitter just doesn’t get better than this! November 10, 2008 4:10 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Communications, TechnologyBest Tweet o’ the Day:
oldsillybear Good: Merle Haggard recovering at home from surgery. Bad: he had cancer surgery. Ugly: I didn’t know he was still alive. 10 minutes ago from web
If the matrix ran on Windows November 10, 2008 3:13 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Humor, Publishing, VideoThoughts of a lazy programmer November 10, 2008 12:07 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Humor, PhilosophyIf only I could draw comic strips!
1 comment so far"That tree sure is closer than that bathroom…"
