Another semi-useless spot on the web…
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2005
Yesterday, Sprint announced that the new cell phone I want, the Samsung MM-A900, was available for purchase at sprint.com and at their stores. Well, the phone isn’t available online and calling them results in them not having a clue. I took a gamble and went out to another Sprint store today (the closest one [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2005
On my last trip, I forgot my power adapter for my PowerBook. Luckily it was a one day trip and where I went, someone loaned me one for the day. Since I didn’t want to repeat that experience, I decided to purchase a second adapter. Apple’s adapter is $80, so I looked at alternatives and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2005
I’ve been noticing more and more how the English language is deteriorating into slang, misused words, improper abbreviations, and mistakes ranging from television to print media, to the web and most disturbing, everyday language. It has become so bad, that the English language has changed to “accept” this. For instance, anyways is often used for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 24th, 2005
Well, all my sound isolation stuff worked pretty poorly and I was a bit annoyed at the noise. I decided to take another stab at it and read reviews that the Antec cases were pretty good and quiet. I bought a Sonata II from NewEgg that arrived yesterday. I removed my computer from the old [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2005
As I mentioned in a previous entry, I got a PlayStation 2 network adapter off eBay. It took forever to arrive and the seller wasn’t responsive. Once I received it, I left neutral feedback saying that shipping was slow and seller was unresponsive. Well, today I checked my feedback and found that I got neutral [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2005
I decided to try out online gaming, so I got a network adapter for my PlayStation 2 off eBay. Yesterday I also picked up a USB headset for it (it was $16 at Circuit City if you bought it online and picked it up at the store). So far the experience of playing against others [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2005
I do a lot of work on two machines; one for testing and the other for development and is my main machine. When I’m testing, I regularly have to copy logs and files back and forth. This requires me to copy the file/log to my server and then pull it down from the other machine. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2005
Some time ago, my father and I had a discussion about being a registered professional engineer and what it means. He’s been a registered professional engineer (civil engineer) his entire career. He’s always told me that being registered means that you certify that your work is going to hold up and it is a matter [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2005
I’m a big fan of Mexican food (OK, maybe Tex-Mex) and Saturday night, my wife let me choose where to go for dinner. We were out at San Diego State at some open house to see the electron microscope and some telescopes (my wife loved it and couldn’t understand why I wasn’t as fascinated as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2005
When Mac OS X 10.4 came out, Apple broke the ability to assign a keyboard shortcut to an AppleScript in the AppleScript menu. Normally I wouldn’t blame Apple for breaking something this obscure, but it is clearly documented in the Apple Help. Now 7 months later, I finally had to find another solution as I [...]
