I've decided that Friday Random Ten is pretty boring, especially with my music collection, since I have a bunch of stuff I've never even listened to. So I'm gonna try this. I have iTunes configured so that the My Top Rated playlist only includes songs I've given 5 stars. (I think it defaults to 4 and 5 star songs, but then mine would be gigantic ( Read more... )

It's nothing compared to Twitter. NOTHING. I swore I wasn't ever gonna get a twitter, and now I'm like addicted or something. And it does not help that I can access it from my iTouch pretty much all the time. (Apart from at truly inconsiderate restaurants and shops that don't have free wifi.)

*HYPERVENTILATES*

I have just spent like an hour trying to get rid of an ancient Yahoo account and move everything to my current Yahoo account. This was way harder than it needed to be. I had some subscriptions to groups on the old account, some on the new account, and my Flickr pics are on the new account. So I ended up making a list of the groups I was ( Read more... )

Somebody got a hold of my debit card info and bought a $500 plane ticket. I also think they managed to login to my bank account. This is really fucking scary ( Read more... )

I think this is adorable (via Ezra Klein):


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I'm trying to reinstall Windows on my laptop. Problem: it gets almost done, then the computer gets too hot and turns itself off. It's done this twice now. I'm about ready to ram the laptop through a brick wall, so help me god ( Read more... )

My parents got a new printer a couple weeks ago. Zoe was kind enough to help me set it up (read: play with the box and get in the way).

( isn't the box always the most interesting part? )

*hearts VeloNews liek whoa* They're managing to make this whole doping thing much less depressing and actually slightly funny. They may have gone a bit crazy as well, but I say more power to them.

VeloNews' Live Update Guy posts this:12:45 PM: Our apologiesMany of you may have had difficulty in reaching VeloNews.com yesterday, following Carlos ( Read more... )

My car is broken. And it won't go.

My dad and I are headed to the auto parts store with some random parts he just spent half an hour using various obscure tools to remove from the car.

Whee.

ETA: The car works now. The battery is wedged in place with a piece of wood and a paintbrush. I am not kidding.