Archive for January 2007

I installed Windows Vista about 3 weeks ago at work, and I’ve been using Internet Explorer on it since then. I wanted to give IE a fair shot, and I was pleased with a few things about it. For starters, it seemed significantly faster (both in responsiveness and rendering) than Firefox. It also loaded up [...]

I rented a couple of movies this past weekend, and they were both good enough that I felt like passing on my recommendation. The first was A Scanner Darkly, which I’d been trying to rent for a while now. It’s one of those movies that didn’t get enough commercial success for Blockbuster to have 200 copies [...]

Back in high school, on the day before a homecoming game, our cheerleaders hung up a sign that said something like, “Go Bengals! Beat the Warriors tonigt!” You probably noticed the problem, of course: they left an “h” out of the word “tonight.” The cheerleading coach also happened to be my U.S. government teacher, and [...]

I was almost run over by a car tonight. I was walking back to my apartment with my food, and as I was walking across one of the streets at a roundabout, a car came through without paying attention. I actually dove a little bit to get out of the way. It was a pretty [...]

I was watching Goldfinger last night, and I noticed something strange (and this pretty much applies to the rest of the older James Bond movies as well). There was a scene at the beginning when Goldfinger was cheating at cards and Bond needed to get into his hotel room to stop him. He pretty much charmed [...]

While wandering around the internet the other day, I stumbled onto the MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) website. Don’t ask; I wind up at some pretty random sites sometimes. Believe it or not, I have a real problem with MADD, and since that probably seems a little strange to everybody but me, I decided to [...]

Just after I got back from my Christmas vacation in Virginia, the second hard drive failed in my Windows Media Center computer. This left me with a fully-functional Media Center, but with very limited space to store my recorded television. I loved my Media Center; I’ve been a fan since first hearing about it, and [...]