Me: (raising an eyebrow) You're playing Othello against a cotton candy eating Tyrannosaurus named Marvin?

Him: Yup. And losing. Badly.

Well, crap, I missed yesterday. So much for the every day in July thing. The major obstacle is at least four people, sometimes five, competing for one PC at home. We try to set timers, and I regularly kick everyone off if there's something important I need to do (like pay bills), but still, there's a lot of squabbling. I really need to set aside ( Read more... )

I get an email newsletter from a business IT website; most of its articles are way over my head as they're geared toward network managers of big companies - however, I keep it because every week they send me, along with the links to articles, something funny, usually a video, a quote, and a little this "day in history" blurb ( Read more... )

Odd. I got an email saying Millenium-Games.com wants to follow me on Twitter.

I don't have a Twitter account.

Granted, I follow several people on Twitter through Google Reader, and some people actually use it to post to their LJs. Occasionally like listening to one side of a phone conversation, but fun (as in this one, thank you angelsmum, that's ( Read more... )

( skip if not a iPod user... )

I'm amused to see my department's IT intranet page has a link to the Wikipedia entry on emoticons.

\ ^_^ /

Grr. Spent a lot of day trying to figure out why the descriptions of a computer attached to a certain serial number weren't matching up. Our IT guy was looking at a fax I sent and, granted, while I don't have the neatest handwriting in the world, to be fair I also included the number in the original email I sent ( Read more... )

Cool! Use your >2GB of Gmail as a hard drive!I have sent myself large files before, so I could access them from other computers, but this sounds like an easier way to do it. I think google wouldn't let me send certain types of files though (like *.exe ); I wonder if this would get around it? Except for the fact that it only works on IE ( Read more... )

We recently acquired two new computers for the use of our sci aides - and they came with flat panel LCD monitors! Since I have easily one of oldest monitors, VT thought it would be nice to swap out my computer's monitor with one of the new ones ( Read more... )