A Wii bit of madness
I got a kick out of this. A sizable group of people camping outside the Best Buy in Almaden, waiting for the Wii. One group of guys had a tent with a projector and a Nintendo and were playing games to pass the time....
Category: General
Rear-ended
On Saturday, at around 4:35 pm, we were on University Ave. in Palo Alto between High St. and Emerson St. when I saw a parking space open up. I slowed down and came to a stop and a few seconds later, the car behind us slammed into...
Two CableCARDs – NOT
Looks like I spoke too soon. I could've sworn that we had each of the two tuners on a different HBO channel while the cable guy was here. Well, a few hours later, I could get tuner 2 to work with regular network channels but not...
Two CableCARDs
The Comcast guy just came by and swapped out our non-working CableCARD. He was probably here less than 10 minutes and now we have two working tuners that have access to all our channels. This is great! No more futzing around with...
links for 2006-11-17
BoardFirst - Tired of waiting in line? You no longer have to wait at your computer exactly 24 hours before your flight to beat the crowd for an "A" group boarding pass. Instead for just $5 you can relax, knowing you will be the...
PS3 can be hazardous to your health
Listen up, kiddies. I'm sure the PS3 is pretty cool, but it's not worth a trip to the hospital: PlayStation 3 hopeful buyer injured trying to buy console in Wisconsin...
SMART (Smart Monitoring And Rebooting Tool)
I just read about SMART (Smart Monitoring And Rebooting Tool) in a Linux magazine recently so I tinkered with it a bit. It's a system monitoring tool, kind of like Nagios, but much, much simpler (no Web UI, no flap detection,...