Day: January 27, 2009

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So, which would be more fun to leave visible on your computer in a full screen, kiosk mode, browser window: Now or Henchmen’s Helper? (Sometimes I wish I was in an office, just so I could engage in these small performances.)

Sometimes you need more than six words

I knew he had potential when, instead of being creeped out, he was fascinated by the antique glass eye I carry around in my purse. One sentence stories. All the potential of PostSecret, but less bathos. Although drunken ideas rarely come to fruition, we found ourselves on Pearl Street the next morning serving syrupy handfuls of my famous pumpkin spice… Read more →

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I found a place–or rather was referred to one–on Saturday that would happily sell me a replacement 1TB SATA2 drive for my RAID array, and at a decent price. (Yes, you can read that as “Future Shop can bite my shiny metal ass.”) The array worked perfectly, and none of my roughly 2TB of data in that array was lost due to the drive failure. I wish I could report the same level of success with Intrepid Ibex and wireless–I did finally get the wireless “working”, but it disconnects every 15 minutes or so, and I am becoming very familiar with the term “kernel panic”.

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