Author: Marc

Rants

What the world needs…

Well, I'm not exactly sure what the world needs ("love, sweet love" perhaps?). But I do know what the world doesn't need: Another cover band that performs "Brick House". Here's the deal. The lady's stacked and that's a fact -...

General

Desktop hosed

Desktop hosed, originally uploaded by msabramo. My Windows desktop at home, which has been flakey for a long time and has been getting increasingly flakey even after a transplant into a new Asus S-Presso case/mobo, finally bit it...

Windows

PCpTray: extension for Asus PC Probe

If you have an Asus motherboard, you might be interested in this. It's an add-on for the Asus PC Probe software (for monitoring temperatures and fan speeds) that comes with their motherboards....

General

TiVo (with 3 months of free service) for Nicole’s parents

This weekend at Best Buy you get a free 3 month service gift card. So we talked Nicole's parents into getting one and I set it up for them last night. In addition to the TiVo, we needed to buy them a wireless phone jack adapter,...

GtDProductivity

Managing waiting for/delegated emails with procmail

I have a new approach for streamlining the management of things that I'm waiting on something from someone. My particular implementation uses procmail, but the approach could easily be adopted to other types of mail systems -...

General

Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival

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To save money, don’t print your photos at home

Just found this on Lifehacker, which in turn found it from the NY Times. The gist of it is that printing at home costs around 28 cents per print whereas there are services that can do it for as little as 13 cents. This is due to...