January 2, 2008 – 2:52 pm
After some gnashing of teeth I decided to go out and buy a new cable modem and have it provisioned as new service. Lo and behold! I have Internet access at home again. While I had the technician, I had him look through the systems. As I suspected, Comcast never provisioned my old cable modem [...]
October 22, 2007 – 12:36 pm
What did the guys at AOL France do on their last day? They made a video clip, and it’s quite good, especially considering it’s a single take.
October 16, 2007 – 9:10 am
A lot of friends made over my five years at AOL are being let go today. A layoff is always painful, but this one hit home in Operations. To all of my friends who depart the campus for the last time, I wish you even more success and prosperity. People always say they’ll keep in [...]
October 11, 2007 – 6:46 am
After a week of record-breaking temperatures, autumn has finally arrived. The drive in this morning was beautiful 51ºF. We’re forecasted to get high 60s for the rest of the week and throughout the 40s at night. This is perfect football weather and easily my favorite time of the year.
Listening to: The Wretched by NIN
October 4, 2007 – 3:45 pm
The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors today adopted a resolution declaring a water shortage emergency and instituting mandatory water restrictions for customers of the Loudoun County Sanitation Authority (LCSA) in eastern Loudoun County.
The ongoing drought has greatly reduced water levels in the reservoirs used by LCSA to provide water to its customers. Voluntary restrictions [...]
September 21, 2007 – 11:06 am
Go home, apply a Windows Update to the new gaming machine. On reboot it dies. I spend 2 to 3 hours troubleshooting and find there are a lot of bad sectors on the hard drive. Run to Best Buy and spend too much on a new drive so I can get going again. Go home, [...]
September 8, 2007 – 5:59 pm
From BBC News:
The old advertising slogan “Guinness is Good for You” may be true after all, according to researchers.
A pint of the black stuff a day may work as well as an aspirin to prevent heart clots that raise the risk of heart attacks.
Drinking lager does not yield the same benefits, experts from University of [...]
August 29, 2007 – 1:29 am
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence
August 21, 2007 – 3:25 am
I don’t understand this. When I attended, and the times I have returned, I never see any partying.
Princeton Review has named the top 10 party schools for 2008:
1 West Virginia University
2 University of Mississippi
3 The University of Texas at Austin
4 University of Florida
5 University of Georgia
6 Penn State–University Park
7 [...]
August 17, 2007 – 8:13 pm
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The Federal Reserve, reacting to concerns about the subprime lending crisis that’s rocked financial markets in recent weeks, Friday cut its so-called discount rate half a percentage point, to 5.75 percent.
Is this the start of a snowballing dismissal of the ramifications of bad decisions?
When are we going to start making companies [...]
