The icons on my Windows XP machine have been flashing on & off intermittently for quite a while. The problem would come & go, and it wasn’t my primary computer, so I never bothered looking into it, though I did have a few suspicions as to the culprit.
I had a little extra time today, and [...]
I’ll get right to the point – Trig razor blades are by far the worst blade I’ve ever used.
The blade doesn’t seem all that sharp. It pulls out more hair than it cuts.
Because of its dullness, it’s always getting caught & bouncing on my face, rather than gliding smoothly. This would normally cause a lot [...]
I don’t eat a whole lot of meat, but I do like to have a chicken breast every now and again. For that reason, I like to buy frozen chicken breasts and keep them in the freezer for whenever I get that urge.
Problem is, defrosting chicken in the microwave never seems to go well, and [...]
Psst. Hey, Amazon.
You know all those eBooks I’ve bought at your site over the years?
You know which ones I’m talking about?
Yeah, you do. And so does everyone else who picks up my Kindle Fire, because every book I’ve ever purchased from you is listed in the carousel!
Never mind the fact that I’ll never need to [...]
When I started working through my double edged blade sampler pack, I thought I would write a review of each blade, or at least each blade that I liked.
But there was a problem with that plan – namely, I don’t have all that much to say about these blades. Only “I like these,” or “I [...]
First off, I’d like to say that I love the Kindle Fire. And I don’t really see a good reason to root it, at least not for most users. Amazon really did do a great job with the OS. Kudos, guys & gals.
And If you have a Kindle Fire, you’re probably more interested in streaming [...]
Of course I had to get a Kindle Fire as soon as it came out.
And of course I had to root the device just a day later, as soon as an exploit was discovered.
Everything went well, or so I thought. I popped into bed and thought I’d watch a little Arrested Development before dozing off, [...]
I’ve written about the American Red Cross stalking me for my blood in the past. In short, I used to regularly donate blood to the American Red Cross, but when they started calling me multiple times per day & asking that I schedule a donation, it irked me. I asked them to stop calling, many, [...]
I checked in to one of my Linux accounts today and saw that I had about 2 GB of unread emails.
Dating back to 2008, these emails were almost entirely the output of different cron jobs that I have set up & running on that account. They were error notifications & various STDOUT messages. Nothing really [...]
I cancelled my AT&T phone service last month because I switched to a much better plan from Virgin Mobile. I didn’t call & cancel, but instead ported my number to Google Voice, at which time the cancellation happens automatically.
Before doing the number port, I logged in to my AT&T account and cancelled the automatic monthly [...]
LastPass is all kinds of awesome.
If you’re not familiar with LastPass, it’s not quite enough to say that it’s a password manager. It is, but it’s so much better than that – it’s a password manager done the right way. I don’t want to get into explaining the many features that make LastPass bulletproof, so [...]
We have many, many computers in the On Everything household, and I recently set them all up to run Seti@Home and Einstein@Home using Berkeley’s Boinc software. Most of them are just sitting idle most of the time, so why not do something useful with them, right?
The software installed & ran splendidly on most of [...]
Now that I’ve moved into the Android world, I’ve been using Google/Gmail’s “Tasks” feature to keep track of my To Do Lists. I prefer this method to a separate stand-alone ToDo app because it’s clean & simple, and it’s one less app to manage.
I created a Chrome Application Shortcut to my Task List for easy [...]
My AT&T iPhone costs me about $80/month for service. And I don’t even have the 3G iPhone, or the fancy iPhone 4 – I have the classic 2G model. 4GB, aluminum backing. Cingular “EDGE” network only.
I bought it for $300 when Apple first dropped the price. And I’ve never upgraded, because I don’t really [...]
I installed Amazon’s Appstore on my phone, an application that offers a free download of a “paid” app each day. Today, the free app is “Peggle” by internet gaming giant Popcap. I’m not a big gamer, but I thought I’d check it out mostly for research purposes. I’m looking to get into Android development myself, [...]
I have a new Android phone and wanted to play around with some Android development.
I chose to install the development tools on both a Windows box and a Linux box so I could compare the experiences.
I ran in to a really weird problem when trying to install on Windows, though. After downloading and installing the [...]
I can’t believe it happened to me.
I was settling into bed, and I grabbed my Kindle for a little bedtime reading.
But boy was I in for a shock.
ACK! The screen was broken!
Turning it off and on didn’t fix the problem, nor did doing a reset or gently massaging the screen with my fingertips.
As you [...]
So I’m working on a project where I need to validate that the user has entered a correct email address.
I don’t really care if someone sticks in a “fake” email address – to complete registration, the user needs to enter a confirmation code that I send via email, so if they put in a fake [...]
I had to reboot one of my computers, which a pretty rare occurrence around here.
The machine is a few years old Dell Dimension e520.
The problem: The computer wouldn’t reboot. After running through a little RAID dialog, the computer just hung, right after showing the message “Press Ctrl-I to enter configuration utility”.
The solution: I [...]
I started shaving with a double-edge (DE) razor about 1 month ago. When I started out, I initially purchased 100 Shark blades from Amazon based on a recommendation from a user on Reddit.
The blades had excellent reviews, and at only 18 cents per blade, how could I go wrong, right?
Wrong.
I’ve since come to [...]
