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Seventeenth time's the charm
Another week, another series of posts eaten by LJ. The hunt for an alternative blogging site is back on. I am open to suggestion. I'll see if I can pull from memory ( Read more... ) -
These disappearing posts are starting to get annoying
A post from earlier this week went missing. I'll dig around for it and put it up. In the meantime, here's a completely new post ( Read more... ) -
Looks like Monday's got a case of the someones
Notes from earlier: Survived the trip home from that already annoying travel assignment last month. Had a visit from the little brother; mostly just bummed around and drank beer, including a 2011 Sam Adams Utopias. Missed fireworks shows due to weather and questionable gate practices at the site. Did nothing of consequence ( Read more... ) -
The inactive Post button follows me when I travel
Travel wasn't as pleasant as it could have been, but I got to my destination in the end. Both flights got delayed because neither flight had secured a flight crew prior to the scheduled departure time. Is this common? The second flight got a little bonus in that they didn't account for the weight of the half-full craft; the solution was to leave ( Read more... ) -
Six-month-iversary if I failed to Minchin it before
Six months ago this past Saturday, the lady friend and I went out on our first date. Always open for things to do, she found out that our favorite Australian comedian, Tim Minchin, had a series of performances in Chicago, the last of which was, coincidentally, this past Saturday. We jumped on getting tickets and then started making plans to put ( Read more... ) -
Samsung Series 5 with Chrome OS: Driving the future of netbooks
I got to play around with my Samsung Series 5 Chromebook with 3G for the entire weekend. To test it out, it became my primary portal to the internet. The Chromebook is brilliant and you probably won't want one ( Read more... ) -
Go see Super 8
I could probably talk about the recently arrived Samsung Series 5 Chromebook and Asus Transformer dock, but I wanted to post something on Super 8 which officially released in theaters today. The lady friend and I went to an almost-midnight showing at 12:05 this morning to check it out ( Read more... ) -
Amazon's $3 million gamble
A major news outlet learned that a recent Amazon stunt may have cost the online retailer upwards of $3 million. The ploy in question was a sale on the MP3 download of Lady Gaga's new album on its launch day, and again two days later, allowing customers to purchase it for just 99-cents. Over 440K sales were made with $8-9 in licensing fees per ( Read more... ) -
More tech news and notes
The Playstation Network (PSN) and Store are both back online, but curiously missing is the free content that was supposed to be made available to customers as a form of apology. There is no indication of any free period of PSN+, their pay service that includes Store discounts and cloud saving, instead my brief session was bombarded with ( Read more... ) -
From yesterday (should stop assuming Post button works)
The lady friend and I took a trip over to the Peoria, IL area to hang out with a bro and his wife. The weather didn't like cooperating and the nearby hippie music festival essentially blocked off part of town, but we made the most of it. We got to do a little bit of drinking (tried Left Hand's "Good JuJu", a sibling of their awesome "Bad Mojo", ( Read more... )