The Little Things
August 28th, 2008 (Life)Hey, you know all those little things that you keep saying you’ll do someday? Start working on them now. I’m finding that it’s so easy to just sit down at the computer in the evening and not really do anything…just read other people’s blogs, read the endless posts that come through the various microblogging services, catch up on the latest videos from Revision3, etc… I’ve been finding though that just doing a little bit at a time and keeping a project moving forward can be significantly different than not doing anything on it for a while. I’ll give…
Microblogging, Social Networks and the Internet, Oh My!
August 24th, 2008 (Tech)Ever since I’ve started using Twitter to microblog, I’ve really slowed down a lot on the full blog posts (I’m trying to change that though). I’m still trying to figure out which places are best to place what online content. Right now, I use Facebook to contact people who I wouldn’t normally get in touch with or just to make it easier to talk to people who use it as their main form of communication rather than email. Then, I use Twitter to let people know what I’m up to (and chat with people). I feel like my actual blog…
You were a computer geek in the 90's if…
August 21st, 2008 (Life)- 1. You liked to explain how the 8088 was better than the 8086 because of its math co-processor
- 2. You often corrected people about the fact that Doom was not the first 3-D shooter (Wolfenstein was) and in fact was really only 2.5-D
- 3. You played Duke Nukem when it was a side-scroller
- 4. You spent hours installing Slackware linux on your parents computer just because you could
- 5. It upset you when people called 3.5″ floppy’s “hard disks” because they weren’t as floppy as the 5.25″
- 6. You laughed at the Apple users and then decided the Mac
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The Machines are Human!
July 25th, 2008 (Life)I’ve noticed that people often like to assign human attributes to the machines they are around every day. For instance, if their computer is having problems, they’ll say, “see, my computer has a hard time coming in on Monday morning’s too.” Or, they’ll make the machines talk to them. Someone was once showing me what happened when they started up a motorcycle that was hooked up to a battery charger. The charger started blinking and beeping, and this person said, look, it’s saying “I see a drop in power and need to start charging again”, as if it could actually…
Service Dependencies
July 24th, 2008 (Tech)Recently, I was trying to start a service in Windows and kept getting this error: “System error 1075 has occurred. The dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion.” Hrm, I said to myself…what on earth could be causing this. After looking in the system log, I saw which dependency service was being referenced, and that service most certainly did not exist. However, it did not show up in the dependencies tab of the service I was actually trying to start either. So, here is the fix: Run regedit. Go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and find the service you…
Ahh…summertime
July 13th, 2008 (Life)This summer so far has been amazing. Not only has the weather been wonderful (as soon as it gets hot and humid, some rain comes to cool things off and keep the lawn green), but it has been an encouraging time as well. Being involved at the C.R.A.C.K. House has been an uplifting experience so far and I learn something new there every week. Work has been very low stress for me. I’m slowly getting the hang of how to enjoy the simple things in life: Coffee. Walking the dog. Grilling out. Mowing the lawn. Coffee. Reading.
The…
Nerdliness
July 4th, 2008 (Life)I really like science-fictiony media that is all about computers. Even though it may be far fetched or not totally accurate, it still gets me pumped up to “Hack the Gibson”. Lately, I’ve been trying to venture into the strictly science fiction realm (Battlestar Galactica, Firefly) but haven’t yet been able to get sucked in as much as with the nerdier selections you’ll find below.
Books:
- The Blue Nowhere – Jeffery Deaver
- Digital Fortress – Dan Brown
- Little Brother – Cory Doctorow
- The Mezonic Agenda: Hacking the Presidency – Dr. Herbert H. Thompson
Music:
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