Articles in the General category

  1. New new display

    I got the replacement for my defective laptop display on Saturday and got around to installing it last night. So far everything looks good. There are no defective pixels as far as I can tell and, as a bonus, it's a matte display instead of the glossy one that ...

    Tagged as : Personal
  2. New hosting

    I've switched this blog to new hosting. Hopefully the only difference you'll notice is faster load times.

    Tagged as : Meta
  3. Christmas break plans

    It's that time of the year again... when I get to relax after completing finals. It looks like I'm going to pass everything too, which is a pretty big deal since I literally cannot fail any class I'm enrolled in and still graduate in May. So now ...

    Tagged as : OpenVP Personal
  4. New display

    I got my new display installed and all is almost well, but there's two pixels smack in the center with the red component stuck on. I've tried such things as JScreenFix and massaging/tapping to no avail. So I guess it's going back to the seller for ...

    Tagged as : Personal
  5. "Erroring off?"

    Has anyone told you that a program is "erroring off" or that some system "errored off?" Occasionally I have the pleasure of receiving such notices and every time it makes me cringe.

    Let me explain something. "Error" is not a verb. You can't error. It's not possible. When ...

    Tagged as : Rant English
  6. Website statistics

    About two weeks ago I started collecting statistics for this website, something I've always planned on doing but never actually cared enough to sit down and do. Two weeks doesn't make for a great sample period but the results are still interesting.

    Almost 25% of visitors use some ...

    Tagged as : Meta
  7. You don't have signal

    My DSL and phone service is due to be activated today. When I got up I had dialtone, which is a good sign. But a few days ago I had an interesting encounter that was just too humorous not to share.

    On Thursday the DSL modem showed up but since ...

    Tagged as : Personal AT&T
  8. 'Netless update

    A few fun things have been happening, but I've been too busy to write about them. Now that I have time, I've just finished moving into my new house for the summer and won't have Internet access until this Monday (or later if past experience on this ...

    Tagged as : Personal OpenVP
  9. Things I am tired of

    • Taking liberal arts classes because in someone's opinion that's somehow supposed to make me more of a person.
    • Hearing from every one of my professors that their class is not only directly relevant to my life, but extremely important and that I'll never forget it.
    • Caring about ...
    Tagged as : Personal Rant

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