| Monday, January 5, 2009 |
11:35 - THIS IS THE SECOND NOTICE THAT YOUR AUTOMOBILE WARRANTY HAS EXPIRED
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I've been getting a lot of cellphone spam. So I go to donotcall.gov to register my phone in the federal Do Not Call list, right? And I put in my phone number and e-mail address, which it requires in order to send out a confirmation e-mail for authorization.
The authorization message gets stuck in my spam trap.
There's something cosmic at work here.
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| Saturday, January 3, 2009 |
14:26 - Just when I'd finished reading Wikipedia...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
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TV Tropes. Via a friend whom I will now hold responsible for many lost hours.
(The best thing about it is that the names of all the tropes are themselves identifiable and/or silly pop culture references—kinda like the awesome font names at Blambot.)
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| Friday, January 2, 2009 |
20:43 - Dear Broadway,
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It's okay. Really. You don't have to make every remotely animated property of the last twenty years into a stage musical.
We won't think any less of you. Honest. We'll love you just as much as ever. You don't have to prove anything to us. Hey! Center! Center! C'mon, inside voice. Let's get a hold of ourselves now. People are staring.
Ssshh. It's okay. Calm down. It's gonna be just fine. Ssshhhh. Where's our big man? Let's see our big man. Theeeere we go.
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| Thursday, January 1, 2009 |
09:48 - Nothing changes on New Year's Day
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But better tools certainly do help.
Second-best Christmas gift ever.
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| Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
02:06 - Y2K09
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081231-30gb-zunes-prepare-for-new-year-by-loc
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Happy New Year, Zune owners!
Around midnight Pacific time last night, 30GB Zunes began restarting and locking up at their boot screens. Reports have swamped official forums and fan sites, and Microsoft has yet to officially comment on the reason for this pre-New-Year's Zune apocalypse.
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Microsoft has issued its official statement and an FAQ on the Zune.net forums. After "the technical team jumped on the problem immediately," there appears to be a bug in the 30GB Zune's internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year. Microsoft recommends allowing affected Zunes to run down their batteries, and come noon, GMT on January 1, 2009, it will be safe to plug in, restart, and once again rock out with the Zune.
Because there's no hard power-off, you have to let the batteries die.
Via Lance, who says, "I'ma play Avenue Q "Schadenfreude" on my IPOD because it still WORKS!"
Meanwhile, here's where I was:
14 degrees and a zillion people all crowded together standing for six hours. This we call fun!
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Brian Tiemann
