The saga of ChristianForums (2006/11/08)
So, ChristianForums. It’s this site I spent a lot of time at for a bit over four and a half years.
[read more...]Virtue is its own reward, but this is just awesome (2006/11/01)
When I was a kid, when I was really sick, there was no help for it but to pick up a 4-pack of “Jamaican Olde Tyme” ginger beer. Good ginger beer is something special; it’s sweet, but also genuinely spicy – spicy enough that you find yourself wanting a cold drink to wash it down with, sometimes. Unfortunately, so far as I can tell, the product is long gone.
[read more...]Windows, again. (2006/10/08)
So, Fireball’s computer is acting up. Can’t play videos. Research reveals that it can maybe play them with acceleration turned off, which leads to the discovery that the BIOS is not assigning an interrupt to the video card.
[read more...]NetBSD on an Intel-based Mac mini (2006/10/07)
Quick summary: NetBSD-current loads and runs beautifully on the Intel-based Mac mini.
[read more...]Integris Mortgage: Dumb and arrogant (2006/10/04)
This looks like it’s gonna be a fun one. Will we get the madness and intensity of another Source Lending? The incoherence and babbling lunacy of Complex Capital? Only time will tell.
[read more...]Junk faxes and "the little guy" (2006/09/30)
I just created a separate category for fax-related (and spam-related) articles in my blog. It’s been over three years now since I first sued a junk faxer.
[read more...]Satcom: We make up for incompetence with rudeness! (2006/09/14)
Okay, so, I did, sort of, get the call back from SatCom.
[read more...]Routing calls at its finest (2006/09/14)
So, we got some junk mail, which was interesting only in that, while it was addressed to my company, it was also addressed to our health benefits manager. By name.
[read more...]UPS, Round 3: They paid up! (2006/09/13)
Okay, so, here’s the story. Two months ago (on July 12th), a computer I shipped via UPS showed up damaged. We filed a claim. I received a check on September 12th for an amount close enough that I don’t know exactly what they were paying, but they clearly paid the claim in a reasonably fair manner. (I honestly don’t know how the number was arrived at, but I think they reimbursed some portion of the shipping costs. Or the insurance. Or something.)
[read more...]We miss you, August Moon (2006/08/31)
Back before Big Bowl popularized the notion of pick-and-mix stirfry, August Moon was letting you pick your protein to go with any of their stir-fry sauces. They were a local place which reviewers described as “fusion”, with such fascinating concepts as “Scandinasian Stirfry”. They had an astonishing variety of interesting foods, and combinations of foods. We went there to celebrate when Spider bought his house. We went there when people visited from out of town, or for any other occasion we could think of. It was at August Moon that a waitress identified a particular piece on the stereo as Herbie Hancock, leading me to expand my musical horizons quite a bit. They had local art on the walls, and lava lamps on the tables.
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