Archive for July 2007

I had the, uh, pleasure of checking out the new Transformers movie two nights ago, and I figured it was worth putting up my thoughts, which should act as kind of a warning about it. This movie is bad. Just awful. It could almost work as a satire of an overdone, advertising-filled, extra-super-blockbustery movie, except [...]

A few weeks ago, I was greeted by a nice surprise when I tried to log in to my bank’s online services. They had evidently switched over to using a Flash-based set of login controls, and the end-result for me was that my browser and/or computer was no longer able to remember my password for [...]

I started writing this post a few days after getting my new computer, but then I got kind of lazy. But now, after about a month of tinkering with it off and on, here it is: my own personal account of how easy and/or difficult I found it to “switch.” I’ll go through each of [...]

The thermometer is telling me that, while it’s only 87° on my balcony, it’s actually 95° inside at my desk. For those of you reading this in Europe, that’s 30.5° outside and 35° inside. Oddly enough, I just did a quick search of my site, and it turns out that I also encountered some heat [...]