Monthly Archives: January 2003

Sucking sound

“Can you hear that sound? No, it’s not a broken fan, it’s Windows sucking.” When our new “computer guy” restarted our servers this morning (he’s working on email) both came up with a different Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). This … Continue reading

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New powerbooks

This morning, Apple announced two new powerbooks – a 17″ and a 12″. The 17 is just gratuitous. Sure, it looks nice – how big a monitor do you need to schlepp around with you? How much can you afford … Continue reading

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More spewage

Note new link to the left, to Nicholas Corwin’s webpage. He’s been creating trivia at www.trivia-savant.com for some time now; so I set him up a blog, which you may notice looks remarkably similar to this one – non-surprising, since … Continue reading

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Old Mans War

Congratulations to John Scalzi (a classmate of mine from Webb) on getting his novel Old Mans War bought, after publishing it on his website! I think it’s still there for the reading, or you can wait a year and shell … Continue reading

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Nucular

Heard George W. on the radio today, talking about an agreement with China to keep “nucular” weapons off the Korean peninsula. Too bad what we’re actually worried about is NUCLEAR weapons. Too bad this is the person whose finger is … Continue reading

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