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Please accept my apologies for the several recent outages on this and my other sites. During the past week, my sites have had 5 extended outages, each lasting anywhere from 1 to 10 hours, and all due to the unbelievable incompetence of 1and1’s web admins. Somehow they’ve managed to screw things up so badly that [...]
» Go to this postCanon EOS 5D v1.1.1 Firmware Update http://tinyurl.com/2emzxn #
Apple Releases Safari 3.1 With New CSS and HTML 5 Feature Support http://tinyurl.com/2uyu79 #
Safari 3.1 renders my site faster than Firefox and IE 7. Gmail and Google Reader also load faster. I like it. #
Safari 3.1 also uses a different color management profile than Firefox and IE. Color [...]
I can’t make this stuff up, seriously. I had another shipment of boxes returned to me by FedEx. I was using pre-printed labels sent to me by Data Robotics themselves. I sent back two Drobos to them a week ago, and the same boxes are now sitting back in my home. One was a replacement [...]
» Go to this postUpdated 3/18/08: I was contacted by Parallels and put in touch with one of their support technicians. They’ve advised me to do two things: re-install Parallels, and re-create the VM from its HDD file. They said this should resolve any instability issues. I’m going to give it a try as soon as my [...]
» Go to this postI thought that when I lived in Florida, the construction there was shoddy. I was wrong. At least there they used concrete pillars and floors for the houses, and the building code was so strict everything was anchored properly, especially after Hurricane Andrew. When I moved to the DC area, I thought construction would be [...]
» Go to this postIn any other business but the web, if you heard the following things, how would you react?
A company is valued at $15 billion
Said company makes a nebulous product that is supposed to help connect people, but usually just wastes their time
Said product can be easily replaced (more effectively) by a simple email or [...]
This post is a bit of a rant, but it’s something that’s bothered me for some time. Now that I’m married, I’ve found that Ligia has the same problem as me. We have a really hard time finding clothes that can fit us. It seems that clothing manufacturers out there have geared all of their [...]
» Go to this postI get digest emails from the Economist every Thursday, on politics and business. Two things caught my eye in today’s edition.
Chrysler appointed Robert Nardelli as its CEO. This is the same guy that left Home Depot after employee and investor dissatisfaction with his management and personal style, with a severance package worth about $210 million. [...]
» Go to this postFor the past couple of months, I’ve been getting spammed by a German company that shall remain unnamed, since they don’t deserve the extra publicity, bad as it may be. I mentioned them in one of my old posts, or rather I linked to a TechCrunch post that talked about them. I figured I probably [...]
» Go to this postToday’s calorie-free serving:
Clive Thompson from the NYT has a detailed write-up of what’s involved if small bands want to get their name out there these days. The almost-requisite MySpace page is a given… But while the web makes it easy for them to get their names out there, keeping up with the fans becomes a [...]
» Go to this postI’m one to point out abuses of power when I see them. So I couldn’t let this one slip by unnoticed. Some corrupt policeman, at the time (2003) an officer with the Miami police, approached a car where two teens were making out (last I checked, teens have been making out in cars for the [...]
» Go to this post NASA is working with Stanford University and some fellow at the Carnegie Institute to come up with a real dud: a plan to blot out the sun. Yes, you heard it right.
They plan to shoot millions of tons of particles into the atmosphere, block out the sun’s rays, and that way everything will be better: [...]
