I was so excited. My birthday was coming up and I was lusting after a new LCD monitor. The Dell 2005FPW went on sale for $487, and I jumped. Now I’m sad. My monitor arrived today, and it has a giant crack on the inside of the screen. It looks like a pixel spider set …
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Cooking my head
My poor old nokia 8265 has given its all. It has performed well for 2 years, but is at the end of its life. The zero and end buttons work about 20% of the time. But more frustrating, it randomly drops calls from certain cell towers. Including the one near my house. While Verizon seems …
Crashes
Another rain storm last night and this morning. I saw a ford explorer slam into the center concrete barrier near old town on the 5 south. It crashed into the wall right beside me and sprayed my car with water and fragments. Lucky for me, I was on the other side of the barrier, and …
Not a fan of the Inuit sunset
I went to update my transactions today in Quicken and received the following message: “As of April 19th, 2005, in accordance with the Quicken sunset policy, Online services… Will no longer be available for Quicken 2002 users.“ Sunset policy, how quaint. This means I can’t get Quicken to download my bank transactions. The product could …
Gallery
I finally got around to upgrading gallery. They added some stuff which freaked a bit on my config, but I eventually got it all going. They added RSS feeds, but I’m not sure how useful that will be. I usually only update in big batches anyway. I’ve been trying to upload some videos from my …