April 2011
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The case of Hulu and the Old School ISP
I signed up for HuluPlus tonght in the hopes of watching an ep or two of Castle on my new new Bluray Disk (BD) player. I paid the $8 for the month and setup the player… super easy. The vid starts loading and the interface is a bit clumsy. Hulu wrote an app to interoperate with the Sony built in stuff. So it’s not like the desktop at all but it should work. Keep in mind I only have...
March 2011
1 post
October 2010
2 posts
How It Aught Not To Be
So last night I was at my brothers house troubleshooting issues connecting their Xbox360 to their Verizon gateway via a 50ft ethernet cable. It had been not working in very weird ways. I took the Dell laptop they have running Windows 7 up to the “game room” to test the cable. To ensure I was talking over the cable I disabled wireless on the laptop. Cable was fine. Xbox is hosed....
September 2010
2 posts
Liars fucking suck.
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Strands Catch 22
So here is a bit of a problem I’m having with Money Strands before I can even get started. I created the account on my Mac via safari. Now I have the app on my iPhone but it has a app level passcode. Having no clue what it is I try to go to money.strands.com on my phone to investigate/set the code. Oops! Sorry you need flash. Crap!
I google a bit and find that they have a mobile site but...
August 2010
2 posts
June 2010
2 posts
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The Delicate Dance
What is it that makes us humans so fucking competitive? Is it the evolutionarily instilled instinct to fight for mates and sustenance? Does that carry over to this day fueling wars and property disputes? Making us buy all kinds of crap with the picture and colors of our favorite team? I dunno but I suspect whatever it is also feeds our desire to drive like ass holes.
You can probably see...
First Post Yay!
Well I have been putting off dealing with domain name registrations that are due and ongoing debate about what to do with my old webite/blog. I HAD a blogger site published to my own domain hosted by godaddy. Put simply I don’t use it enough to justify the cost. I can’t “regress” back to a something.blogger.com domain because they have changed so much since I originally...