Posted by Max in Life Rant, Tech
on Feb 13th, 2009 | 0 comments
I’m going full-disclosure here. I live in a back-up free universe. Not that that’s a good thing. It’s a horrible thing. Sure, I have a NAS to which I download all my files now and again. But, in my world, now and again is when I feel like it, when I have time, or when the mood strikes. The mood doesn’t strike me all that often, if I’m honest.
So, here I sit, thinking I’m moderately protected but in actual fact, if my PC or Mac went tango-uniform, I would be in serious trouble. Music, mostly gone. Pictures, mostly gone. Documents, images, projects, school work, mostly...
Posted by Max in Life Rant, Tech
on Feb 12th, 2009 | 0 comments
With the flick of a switch (metaphorically, of course), the U.S. was supposed to join the other technologically advanced countries of the world and begin broadcasting television in an all-digital format. However, our government, in their infinite wisdom, has decided to delay the original February 17, 2009, switch-over date until mid-June, 2009. There was so much acrimony over changing the date, the government made it optional. Perfect. If people weren’t confused before…
Why the fuss, Max? I’ll tell you why. This just doesn’t add up. Nielsen estimates around 6.5 million viewers...
Posted by Max in Unfiled
on Feb 11th, 2009 | 1 comment
Josh, glad to see you on Twitter. Should have known you’d be keeping up with the “in” crowd. Are you piping your stuff to your blog or just throwing tweets out on the net? Inquiring minds want all the dirt.
Posted by Max in Unfiled
on Feb 11th, 2009 | 0 comments
Interesting thing happened on the way to normal life. I was locked out of my WordPress blog with a suspicious redirect issue. Got a pretty good idea what happened and continue investigating the logs to narrow down my response. However, fixed the issue with a little effort. Glad to be back.