Qwest finally fixed the problem that was denying service to me and several other households in the neighborhood. After four days, I now have my landline phone and DSL again. They are also crediting us for the four days without service. Counseling for pain and suffering is not included. I suppose that opens me up [...]
The desktop computer is still out; I gave Jim the hard drive Tuesday night to transfer the contents of the failed drive to [goes back, examines syntax of sentence up to this point, gives up], and if I’m lucky I’ll get the whole computer back today. What makes it worse is that my laptop has [...]
I meant to leave a note here Wednesday morning to the effect that I would be away helping with the church’s girls camp until today, but time got away from me. In case you missed it, a pre-posted review went live at Cold Fusion last night: The Excalibur Kid (1998). I thought this was the [...]
One of the reasons I’ve been too exhausted to post here is that we’re just replaced the file server at work. Our tech guys (and one could do much worse in the SLC or Davis County areas than Structure Computing — give them a call) ordered our new server for us and got it as [...]
Over the weekend, my venerable IBM T41 decided to give up the ghost; in consultation with my computer professional brother-in-law (everyone should have one of those), we decided it was a video RAM issue; with a little experimentation, we decided that the RAM in question was the built-in video memory on the motherboard. In other [...]
My wristwatch did not wear out, and that in itself is notable. I usually just buy whatever’s available for under ten dollars at Wal-Mart; as long as it’s got an alarm and a light, I’m happy. You don’t expect those watches to last long enough to be family heirlooms; you often don’t even expect them [...]
Well, I’m official. DBA, check. Next: get the municipal business license that the city says I probably should have had all along. And maybe sometime in the future, make some money at this. (This is a precursor to a project that I mentioned nebulously a few weeks ago. Public announcement to come next week.) Nathan
We received our economic stimulus check (aka the GWB Bribery Check) last week. Talk about “staying the course” — what does Dubya do when there’s a putative budget surplus (despite a crippling national debt)? Sends out money! What does he do when the economy slows down? Sends out money! Maybe in his copious free time [...]
