Oh, I finally figured out why I couldn't VNC into my Windows XP VM. Stupid fucking Windows firewall.

That thing cripples so many apps (at least until it's properly configured) it should NOT be on by default without asking. I always forget it tends to fuck up VNC.

I kind of fell out of the habit of posing. I was trying to get stuff done again, and this time it seems like I did get around to most of it ( Read more... )

Today I got the new mouse and mousepad I caved and ordered from newegg. The pair is a vast improvement over my previous setup, using a cheap-ass $5 optical USB mouse on the bare desk ( Read more... )

*sigh ( Read more... )

I haven't posted much lately because (as is the case often of late) there hasn't really been anything going on. Work, days off and then wasting those days of lazing around ( Read more... )

Today, I got five cases of free (expired) beer from work. Bill said "take it", and I loaded my car up. I've got one of each of the four kinds chilling in my fridge. Maybe I'll find one of them decent-tasting, but in the worst case, I can make myself popular by giving away free beer. Though they're expired, they're all in glass, so it's not like ( Read more... )

One way to automount SMB network shares

Today was just a pain in the ass, generally speaking. I felt a lot of work-related angst that I'm just not going to go into to any depth, because most of you don't work retail and wouldn't understand. That, and part of it's just me having been doing the same thing for so long (at my age, five years feels like fucking forever) that I'm just stuck in ( Read more... )

The last few days, I've been trying to get caught up on a lot of the random little projects that I've put on the back burner lately. Got to a fair number of them, but hit a few stumbling blocks, as well ( Read more... )

This scares me. A lot. Someone please tell me it's a joke.

Still watching entirely too much Voyager. Trying to clear out the DVR, or if I just find it compelling in an odd way, I don't know. One of the two.

It's Christmas. I don't careCan't wait until tomorrow. I have the day off, and I want to see if maybe I can't find someone to take the next ( Read more... )