Below is a letter that I sent to the three state Senators representing my county in response to this bill, which just passed the NC House. It was quite literally written by Time-Warner Cable with only minor grammatical changes made by the State House and associated subcommittees. Our state is already 41st in broadband penetration and has seven of ( Read more... )

( This is probably depressing. )

Back in September, I bought a new computer ( Read more... )

If I had something to write about other than insomnia (hence post time) and not doing anything, I would definitely write about it ( Read more... )

Well, not exactly, but I am on vacation. I've gone to the beach with my family again, like we do every year. There is Internet access here, but I've discovered something interesting about my laptop that it only took me a year and a half to learn: it doesn't handle unencrypted Wi-Fi signal well. It sporadically disconnects for no discernible ( Read more... )

I've been tagged by fully half the people I know on Facebook and several people on LiveJournal, so I guess I might as well suck it up and follow the crowd. Here's 25 random things about me, which you may or may not have already known.

( Here's those 25 Things )

I think I may have gotten a little too sucked into the world of Fallout 3.

"What brought about this revelation?" you may ask.
The first thing I thought when I saw this at ThinkGeek was "I could build a Pip-Boy with that."

I'm pretty sure I have a problem.

What have I been doing with my time the last few days? I've been playing Fallout 3, and I swear. It's like they built this game just for me. Watch through all five of the videos in this series, and you'll see what I mean. Or, better yet, watch this one specifically:

You can play it like a regular first-person shooter, but where's the fun in ( Read more... )

So I go to CBS.com to watch one of the TV shows I missed this past Monday because you can't expect a nerd like me to miss the three hours of "Heroes" premiere stuff on NBC, can you? I'm thinking "Oh, it's only two days later. The video should be up by now." And what to my befuddled eyes should appear?

( This! )

So I was watching SYSTM the other day and I saw Roger Chang's iPod. It had this really cool steampunk skin on it that I only saw briefly, so I asked him about it on Twitter, and he pointed me to GelaSkins.com, where I found two that I really like the look of. Now, though, I can't figure out which is the coolest. Also, I don't want to keep the ( Read more... )