Dear The OC Weekly ( Read more... )

I shouldn't expect too much from the free weekly paper in a rich flat right-wing suburb fifty miles south of Los Angeles, but I'm very disappointed in the Orange County Weekly's "Best of O.C." issue. It's an unreadable mess of office in-jokes, arch post-ironic snark, inaccuracies, logrolling, and delusions of grandeur. It is, in short, the Waiting ( Read more... )

Thank you for capturing so many unique things on video. "Citizen Generated Media" has given all of us new views of the world around us ( Read more... )

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My old server, which is actually a Gateway desktop machine from 1997, has an old SCSI card in it. It's an Advansys. The Linux driver for this card hasn't been updated in forever. There are apparently problems with the driver, although I have had none ( Read more... )

1. CAR: Mysteriously jumping out of gear intermittently going between 2nd and 3rd, or sometimes 3rd and 4th. Today, new behavior consisting of the ever-informative CHECK ENGINE light going on, sometimes accompanied by a nonspecific warning from the VEHICLE STABILITY ASSIST program.
   
   
2. DSL: Intermittently out, then totally out. Diagnostics with nice man ( Read more... )

Due to Canon's small problems with user interface, I shot a bunch of photos tonight, including some great ones of a geeky guy dancing like an ape to other geeky people playing medieval instruments, that no one can ever see. Because the camera doesn't warn you when you're shooting WITHOUT A MEMORY CARD IN THE SLOT. Why not a beep? Why not a clank? ( Read more... )

Will the author of Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA or its current maintainer please report to the woodchipper. Thank you.

Someone broke into one of my credit card accounts online. I discovered this because I got email confirming my mailing address change. My... what? I signed on and had to reset the password, which had been changed. This can't be good. Hey! I have an address in New York City now ( Read more... )