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I was excited to get my laptop last night and get everything set up. Since getting home, I’ve had nothing but a horrible time with it and HP. I ordered the laptop with XP Home because I have XP Pro and didn’t see any reason to pay for it again. Unfortunately, when I went to [...]

I’m one step closer to regaining my weekends. I spent a considerable amount of time on Saturday clearing out the old apartment and getting it all cleaned up. When I left there late Saturday afternoon the only things left were my futon, the back seat of my Jeep and my vacuum. I put a post [...]

I’m eating some oatmeal and just trying to ease into the day. I was at work early because I had to drop my Jeep off at the dealership this morning. There’s some weird squeak coming out of the right-rear side when I go over bumps, so they’re looking into that. This oatmeal is damn good. [...]

Wow, today’s morning was rather trying. I woke up to a flashing alarm clock – that frustrating sign that at some point in the night power was lost. I checked my laptop and I had woken up pretty much on time. Score one for my internal clock! Then I went to power on my desktop [...]

I’m fairly exhausted. Friday night and Saturday consisted of painting. I then moved a bunch of boxes I had packed and took down the tape from 3 rooms this morning. My back and feet are rather sore, but not so much that I’m in pain. Conceptually, I really enjoy the idea of beautifying the apartment [...]

I got my new Wii today. Took about 4 hours of waiting in line, but I have it and it’s updating right now. Setup has been super easy and it’s downloading updates right now. I’m surprised at how small of a profile it has – which is very nice if you stood it up to [...]

Today was incredibly slow at work. I wrapped up all the incidents I had by 9:30 and nobody called in at all. It wouldn’t have been that bad if there was something else to do for the rest of the day. I ended up being rather bored. I did, however, get some good news today, [...]

Up early today at 7:45. Many Sundays are spent in bed until about 10:00 – 11:00ish, but Corinne had to go in early today for some meeting, so I volunteered to drive her into work. I figured if I was going to be getting up, I might as well be useful and make her day [...]

Well, looks like someone figured out how to modify whatever script they were using already. I’m not that surprised. The only thing that’s _almost_ funny is that the script that’s spamming my blog thinks that it should be doing so with some for of UBB or other bastardized HTML – so the format’s all fubar’ed. [...]

So some bozos have been spamming my horribly low-traffic diary comment system with some stupid blog spam. I find this annoying. I took a look at the patterns in the spam and wrote a few lines of code to return an error if it’s encountered. I’ll keep an eye on my database to see if [...]