I've been carrying around a couple of checks for quite some time now because I don't live or work near any branches of my bank any more. So I decided to open a new checking account with the bank in the parking lot of the mall. The actual setting up an account part took about 15 minutes. The convincing the guy I really didn't need any other banking ( Read more... )

I read an article a while ago talking about the growing variety of service animals and questions about how the law should handle it. They were specifically discussing a law that would restrict the definition of service animal to dogs, but they also talked about access issues and the definition of a service animal in general ( Read more... )

Or possibly a larger truck ( Read more... )

The word "data" is bugging me. I know it's a Latin plural, but people who insist on using plural verbs with it just grate on my nerves, and I think I've finally figured out why ( Read more... )

So Slashdot had a post about Microsoft Songsmith (it automatically creates background instrumentation as you sing into a microphone) and the YouTube videos that people made by isolating the vocal tracks of famous songs and then playing them through Songsmith. So I looked it up on YouTube, and they are incredibly funny. But I think this one is going ( Read more... )

In the past two days, I have fixed three computers that wouldn't connect to the web with three different operating systems. Two of them (OS X and Ubuntu) had issues with DHCP, and the new Windows machine (my boss wants to be able to run Quickbooks) refused to install a driver for the wireless network card. More than that, it refused to install a ( Read more... )

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I was hoping to watch the inauguration on PBS to avoid as much inane talking head blather as possible. So I just checked the TV Schedule. You know what Rocky Mountain PBS will be showing at 10am (noon eastern, when he takes the oath)? Barney & Friends: The Misbegotten Moon, a Space Adventure. CNN it is, then.

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