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Monthly Archives: September 2007

i can’t watch television anymore

23 September 2007

Have you seen these Taco Bell Cheesy Beefy Melt commercials? They show people holding a “burrito” in their hands with a bunch of disgusting neon-colored cheese hanging from their mouths. I can’t even imagine what the substance actually is, considering the gross tricks they have to do to make food appealing on television. [...]

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now i can update facebook from anywhere

22 September 2007

Like most nerds, I lusted after the iPhone when it was announced. I’ve always wondered how cell phone UIs could be so bad. My only guess is that the people who design the phones must not use them, but cell phones are unavoidable these days. Do they just struggle to use other [...]

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i would hate to endure an interruption of business services

19 September 2007

Your Novell innerweb password will expire in 30 days.
Ah, it’s that time again. Time to change my internal Novell password. An opportunity that comes but once a quarter.
Looking at the post-it note on my desk that contains my current Novell password and several previous ones, I roughly estimate that this will be password [...]

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i guess i could look at this as a blessing

19 September 2007

I’ve been having some DNS-related email trouble the past couple of days, and some people have gotten bounces when emailing my joeshaw.org email address. It should be fixed now, so if you got a bounce, please resend.

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the madness

7 September 2007

Today’s xkcd is particularly poignant. It’s 4:32am as I type this, and I’ve been unable to sleep thanks to a damned mosquito who has eaten me alive and continues to buzz around my head. Attempts to hide under my sheet just cause me to overheat and sweat.

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