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Draconian IT Policies
The IT department can kiss my butt. Since I last brought my laptop to school, they’ve started requiring XP Service Pack 3 to be installed in order to use the wifi network. It took a trip to IT services to figure out that’s what they wanted me to install in order to connect, and I … Continue reading »
World’s Most Disgusting Computer Problem
I sent the following e-mail to my wife shortly after I got home this afternoon. Do you have any compressed air at work? Can you please bring it home? I have the world’s most disgusting computer problem. Remember the tiny ants I mentioned? Turns out they’re not in the bedroom. They’re in MY COMPUTER. I … Continue reading »
Epic Proportions
Today is what we call a clusterfuck of epic proportions. (Firefox’s spell checker has flagged clusterfuck, but I don’t care.) This weekend we were helping a friend move down from New York to DC. To live in our house, actually, until he finds a place of his own. Which I’m not happy about, but at … Continue reading »
Good Grief, Computers
Apparently when I got this computer I was temporarily stupid. For some reason I didn’t install ZoneAlarm, AVG, or Spybot-S&D. And they didn’t get transferred from my old computer either, probably because was still stupid. I noticed the ZA absence a couple of days ago and got a BSOD after installing it; just now I … Continue reading »
So Noisy
This is just another gripe about my in-laws being so noisy at night. My brother-in-law is really noisy by default, he grew up in a loud household and he doesn’t know how to close cabinets quietly, close doors quietly, etc. He also thinks it’s okay to talk to himself and sing to himself all the … Continue reading »
Simpsonize Nobody
I have spent three hours trying to use Simpsonize Me. The one time it actually uploaded my photo, it cropped it the wrong way or something, and it was useless. So I’ve tried again, and again, and again. I either get the interminable spinning donut, or an error about my photo not working. Here are … Continue reading »
Unwalkable
I just want to vent about my feet.
Alaska 2007: Day 1
Today can probably only be described as a disaster. We made it to Seattle in the end, but there were catastrophes along the way. We were almost to BWI Airport when my mother realized she had left her retainers at home. Fortunately FedEx offers same day service – it was $275 but she now has … Continue reading »
Changing Where I Sit
Oh good grief…they’re going to change where I sit at work, sort of. But instead of being a nice easy move from one cube to another, I am going to sit in my current space three days a week and the new space two days a week, so I don’t really have anywhere to call … Continue reading »
Annoying Blocks
My work has blocked MySpace for a long time. It’s no big deal, I don’t use MySpace much anyway. I set up my own copy of CGIProxy and it was serving me well. Today I noticed that apparently eBay and Photobucket have also been blocked, or are at least not coming up – but they … Continue reading »
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