Once more on the subject of electronics--I called the town department of public works on Friday just to be sure we didn't have some kind of electronics recycling program. We don't, but! the very helpful woman at the DPW told me that one of the local elementary schools was having an electronics waste collection fundraiser on Saturday. I'm not ( Read more... )

Craigslist/Freecycle will be good for the things that work, but there's some busted stuff too :-/
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I hate like hell to toss old VCRs, printers, stereo components, etc on the curb. But I'm finding out that it's enormously expensive--more expensive than some of these things cost in the first place--to recycle them. It's really frustrating. Staples will take small stuff like phones and cameras and desktop computers/monitors if you pay them a ( Read more... )

The router and laptop stopped speaking to each other just as I went to post my SYTYCD post, and I FIXED IT by changing the broadcast channel of the router. I am awfully proud of me for figuring all that out :-)
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The laptop and the router feel like conversing tonight, so I am ( liveblogging the SYTYCD results show! )

Was very happy overall with how Raks Spooki went last night.  A huge thank you to the dancers, my zombies, to everyone who helped with publicity, and to everyone who came to the show!  There were some problems with lighting through the first act, which is frustrating since one of the reasons I moved the show upstairs was so that there wouldn't be ( Read more... )

I think my current mp3 player has raised the iPod issue to a much more urgent status by up and dying on me this morning. A hard reset did not unfreeze it :-(
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( comments on last night's show )

If you have an iPod, do you *have* to use iTunes with it? And next dumb question, iTunes won't impose any kind of DRM restrictions on mp3s that weren't purchased through iTunes, will it? Can iTunes deal with mp3s, or only mp4s? Don't have time to google this at work ( Read more... )

Dell sent me a user satisfaction survey.
( a picture is worth 1000 words )