I used to have an offsite machine where I could easily sync backups off my laptop to (I like to have both local and offsite backups), but since that server is no longer in play I had been going for awhile without offsite backups. While poking through some home inventory forms (you know, in case … More Online Backups
My bright and shiny new Apple TV arrived today. I’ve been looking at them ever since they came out, and decided I wanted one after the Take 2 software was released. Finally the day came to actually purchase one. I have to say that initially pairing it with a computer can get a bit wonky. … More Apple TV has arrived!
All right, it’s finally here. The best team in the East taking on the best team in the West in what should be a wild shoot ’em up. Pittsburgh Penguins v. Detroit Red Wings Detroit comes in to this game eager to return to the glory days where they dominated the NHL. They finished with … More Lord Stanley’s Cup
While skimming through my list of RSS feeds (god, how I love RSS aggregators) I stumbled upon something that peaked my interest. In the latest update to Ubuntu (8.04, Hard Heron) they added a new feature called ufw which stands for ‘Uncomplicated Firewall’. If anyone has worked with a firewall before, especially via the command … More Ubuntu’s ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall)
The Dallas Stars are playing like a team lucky to even be in the post season. Detroit is dominating them in every sense of the word, both mentally and physically. Not that I didn’t see this coming, but it really is embarrassing to watch the Stars completely collapse. I guess I should have predicted a … More Sad Clowns in Dallas
Generally for posting to this blog (and for that matter, LiveJournal) I simply use the web interface. For awhile I’ve been considering working with some offline editors – so this morning seemed like a good time to do some research and narrow down my options. The two editors I’m going to be giving a shot … More Offline Editor Experiment
All right, so I’m a little late on posting this as the first game has already happened. What can I say, I was discouraged by my abysmal picking from the previous round (only 1 of 4), but I still say in two of the games the Rangers were robbed by obscenely bad calls that directly … More Semi Finals.
I’ve had to write this in a hundred different places for work, but I really felt it was worth mentioning here as well. Over the weekend the 2008 TAP-NY took place. It’s a festival that celebrates New York State craft beers. In 2006 we took home the Silver medal for DoubleIPA, and last year we … More Big Ithaca win at 2008 TAP NY
The Penguins v. Rangers game frustrated me – and not just because every other sentence the announcers uttered had to be about Sidney Crosby (who has what, zero points so far in this series thank you very much), but by how one-sided a lot of the calling was. The worst offense was the quick whistle … More Put down the whistle.
Well I fell a bit short of the mark last year – I got 6 out of 8 which isn’t terrible, but it still leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. One wrong in each conference, I demand a recount! Well, okay, not really, but let’s see how I can do with the … More Then there were eight.
Just a Man with a Mash Paddle 