I shouldn’t get too upset about these because there is a sort of logic to the error, but it still makes me cringe to read them, especially first thing in the morning, and if people would look a little closer, it would make sense and they’d get it correct. Good old apostrophe “s”, the simple […]

P. used to say it drove him crazy when people would send him stuff from the Internet because he’d seen it all a thousand times before, but that’s no longer true. He spends so much time with Matt Drudge and mAnn Coulter now that he’s lost touch with pop culture, and especially Internet memes (which, […]

Oh thank Christ! Aside from the fact that having “mob” in your company name sounds more like you’re going to put a horse head in my bed or break my knees than simply annoy me with advertising on my mobile phone, I hate AdMob. I clearly understand that stuff costs money, and that if I’m […]

I guessed it probably had a name, but I’d still never heard of semantic saturation. I’d heard it called “jamais vu,” but that seemed like some sort of made-up response to déjà vu. It happens to me mostly with words, but if I say my name enough times, it begins to sound strange. Not only […]

Apparently, Windows 7 has some new functionality that had historically required additional software (apparently, something called Unlocker would do it, and there were others mentioned as well). Instead of just refusing to rename or move or delete (or whatever) a file and leaving you to click “Ok”, it’s actually going to tell you what application […]

When I heard the sound for a new text last night, I glanced at the clock and wondered who’d be sending me a message so late. Curious, I picked up the phone to look, and I was immediately pissed off. One. I pay for wireless service, not ad-supported wireless service, and I pay a lot […]

I love my iPhone. That said, like most cameraphones, it performs rather poorly in dim light. I already knew the 2.0mpx camera was only so-so, but didn’t care because the point of a cameraphone is that you’ve always got it with you; it’s not supposed to perform like a Nikon D90. If I want to […]

I didn’t really want to read the article. Mostly because I think Cheney is a weeping pustule upon the leprous, unwashed taint of America, and I also know that nothing’s going to happen to the fucker, even if he should rot in jail for the rest of his life, preferably whilst having his arse traded […]

There was a topic on Reddit this morning that said, “Write this joke: Ben & Jerry create ‘Yes, Pecan!’ ice cream flavour for Obama. For George W., they created ______.” If what I read is true, then Ben & Jerry’s really did rename their Butter Pecan ice cream to “Yes Pecan!” for Obama, which is […]

Lighting a fire under the molasses-running-uphill-in-January Gnome menu… sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/NAME_OF_THEME echo gtk-menu-popup-delay = 100 >> ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (100 works for me so far, but can be adjusted by editing .gtkrc-2.0; lower numbers faster, higher numbers slower) When I fsck up VLC again and get it stuck on a skin…. vlc –reset-config