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Hurray for pink haired girls! I saw my first pink haired woman outside of an anime convention today, a nice highlight to an otherwise cold dreary day in Chicago. The most interesting thing about it was that it looked pretty good, so kudos to Sakura!

Pfffffft! Just another blah blah Monday for me as I work off the Thanksgiving hangover and get back on my diet after a weekend of relative excess. All of the talk of sales on and offline though, has inspired me to update my sites in hopes of snagging some commissions along with the sheer fun […]

Today the Xbox Live Marketplace begins selling TV shows and movies that can be downloaded and watched on the Xbox 360. My 360 is connected to my flatscreen computer monitor since I wanted HD, but still cannot bring myself to paying $1K USD for an HDTV. So I was initially lukewarm to the idea of […]

Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat! Nothing up my sleeve! Rooooar!
That’s how this whole computer repair/upgrade thing has felt. I swallowed my pride and returned yet another nonfunctional motherboard and this time returned the CPU too. And finally, it looks like I have functioning system once again! I won’t go on […]

Right now my home PC which I depend on for some day job work and general coding fun, is in pieces under my desk…

A couple of days ago I received notice that my Japanese Flashcards gadget had been accepted for inclusion to the Google Gadgets library. Yaay! I’ve been Googlefied. My Google developer’s t-shirt, hat, and a pen were delivered to my office this morning. These are small trinkets, but in my world, the world of geeks and […]

Winds howled and whipped up a white foamy froth on Lake Michigan this morning. It was beautiful and I was so happy just to be alive.

A new study has determined that only 1% of web pages are porn! Darn! Now I know why it is so hard to find anything good! :3

Might as well begin the week with some shameless self promotion! Here’s a little Google Gadget that I originally wrote for their recent gadget contest. It’s really a lightweight version of its .Net big brother, Proliphus JFC, but this one includes the diacritics too. I’m hoping to add sound and card printing once I get […]

Like a thief in the night, the PS3 has launched in Japan! Over the last few days, I’ve been so distracted by family matters (which culminated in the loss of my office/playroom to my eldest daughter, waaah) that the PS3 had completely fallen off of my radar screen. Now that I have a little time, […]

Insert obligatory, “I don’t care who you vote for, just vote”, phrase here! Bppppppppppppppppp! Fsck that, get out, vote, and please don’t vote for any idiots who want to keep us in Iraq or impose their own narrow moral views on you with the force of law! Who these idiots are may vary a little […]

A Solar Shield has been proposed by University of Arizona astronomer Roger Angel as an emergency solution to global warming. I love big tech and cool ideas, but obviously it would be best if we could avoid trashing our planet so badly that we need to do something like this in the first place. And […]

Here’s a really nice piece on moving from Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux. I’ve had an Ubuntu installation for a several months now and after some serious issues during the upgrade to Edgy (which turned out to be due to some system killing hardware conflicts), I really wish I could work in Ubuntu all of […]

Over the last 3 weekends, I’ve totally missed the NASCAR Nextel Cup races for a variety of reasons. So today began with the intention of first, having some fun (since last Sunday was definitely not fun), and secondly catching the race. Then Final Fantasy XII entered the mix and so far, NASCAR has had to […]

I have a serious case of the blahs today. I certainly have plenty of work to do, but am totally unmotivated. It could be a let down from the hospital drama earlier this week. Or it could be that I’m just a Class A slacker. Ehh, who knows? Maybe it’s because I have […]