big ten Adventures in Comcast support We live outside San Francisco, and Comcast is our cable provider. We wanted to watch college football on TV so I visited Comcast’s website to add the “Sports Entertainment Package” for $10 per month. Immediately after turning on the big
car To Sell A Car In the process of moving to another state, we decided to sell my car to some friends. This turned out to be much harder than anticipated. I admit that this is entirely my fault and I deserve to be made fun of for it,
apple Applecareless While I almost never buy extended warranties, conventional wisdom is that you should always buy AppleCare for an Apple laptop. You have up to a year after buying your laptop to purchase the extended coverage. At a high level, you’re basically buying
aclu Omaha World Herald Makes School Remove Christmas Message The Omaha World-Herald published a story about a Lincoln public high school who wrote “Remember the Reason for the Season” on their electronic bulletin board in front of the building. The ACLU contacted the school’s principal to request that the
blogofile More On Migrating From Drupal To Blogofile I wrote an earlier post on converting a Drupal site to Blogofile. I couldn’t be happier with how that turned out as it allowed me to immediately start using Blogofile while still keeping my old Drupal content online. Sweet! But who wants
crypto On Generated Versus Random Passwords I was reading a story about a hacked password database and saw this comment where the poster wanted to make a little program to generate non-random passwords for every site he visits: I was thinking of something simpler such as “echo MyPassword69! slashdot.
blogofile Migrating Drupal To Blogofile I have a Drupal site with nearly a thousand nodes, several having over 100,000 hits. I wanted to migrate to Blogofile but absolutely did not want to start over or make this a major hassle. Instead, I used some Apache RewriteRules to gradually
hollywood Stop The E Parasite Act This is the letter I just sent to my representative, urging him to vote against Hollywood’s E-PARASITE Act: Congressman Fortenberry, please vote against the appropriately-named “E-PARASITE Act” being proposed by Rep. Smith, TX. It’s the counterpart of Senate
geek Making DOS USB Images On A Mac I needed to run a BIOS flash utility that was only available for DOS. To complicate matters, the server I needed to run it on doesn’t have a floppy or CD-ROM drive. I figured I’d hop on the Internet and
abe's cleaners Taken To The Cleaners By Abe's Detailing I read a nice newspaper story a while ago about Abe’s Detailing in Norfolk, NE. When I wanted to have Jen’s minivan detailed as a present, I thought I’d give Abe’s a try and made an
dirt Guest Post By Gabby Smoking You know dad’s blogs about Ramoda?Well I know something he forgot!About half the people working there smoked!I sat down at a table to eat my muffin, and I smelled smoke.I look over my shoulder,and what do I
gabby Guest Post By Gabby It Snowed It snowed!I went outside today and played! bet I would have stayed out there if it had snowed more and if my feet didn’t freeze, I would have stayed there longer!
gabby Guest Post By Gabby Crazy Squirrel I was at grandma’s house last weekend, and there was a power outage.Turns out, it was a squirrel chewing on the power lines, and got electrocuted.We found out when my Uncle Brian came in saying,”There’s a
geek Just Get Home Already While waiting for Jen to return from a conference, I thought about calling her to get her estimated time of arrival, or her ETA. I realized she might be might be pretty far away still and thought I better ask for an estimate of
family Guest Post By Gabby There Here Grandma and Grandpa got here yesterday!My camera is working again to!I took a picture of a mirror,and when I saw the picture I saw me and my camera flashing!Anyways,I am very exited!They’re staying 2 weeks!
dish network Open Letter To KCAU TV As of mid-August, I can’t watch the local ABC affiliate TV channel over my satellite dish because they tried to jack up the rates they charge Dish Network for carrying their channel. Never mind that their advertisers pay them by the number
boat Guest Post By Gabby I Went To The Lake We took a trip to Grandma’s house on Thursday last week, and on Saturday we went to the lake.A couple hours before we left we went boating.It took a long time for me and my friend to get off the
dropkick murphys Dropkick Murphys The Meanest Of Times This is kind of a hard review to write. Short take on the music: it’s brilliant. If you like Irish folk or punk, you’ll like “The Meanest of Times”. However, I just can’t get past the
parents Baseball Chatter Hi! You’re the guy who sat behind me at my 8-year-old daughter’s teeball practice. I thought you’d want to know that you were talking loudly enough for everyone to hear you, including the coaches. I mean, we could
geek In Defense Of The Model M There are few joys in life like using something that is the perfect expression of its intent. Each trade has its representative tools, and their common trait is quality, even if it’s not obvious to the casual observer, and often counterintuitive. The
geek Komando Gorilla A man calls into a radio show because his son received an obviously-spam email telling him that he’s been kicked off of Facebook. The host gets worked up and sympathetic and wants to handle it like a legitimate eviction notice, even though
green party Shades Of Green In Nebraska’s May 13 election, two Green Party candidates ran for Douglas County Commissioner, District 3. Between them, they received one vote. How stoned do you have to be before you forget to vote for yourself? At least neither can accuse the
mayor Sue For Mayor I’m voting for Sue Fuchtman for mayor of Norfolk. I know her personally, and she’s the sort of intelligent, decent, detail-oriented person we should have making city decisions. The other candidates might be alright, but I’d rather see
geek Yet Another Python Map In another article, I described a replacement for Python’s built-in map() function that could take advantage of multi-processing systems. That one was based on the standard Unix fork(). Since then, I’ve written another based on Parallel Python that is much
eula Fun With Software Licenses Did you know that you’re probably not allowed to make backups of your computer? It’s true, if you believe in the legal fiction known as “End User License Agreements” (or EULAs), which are those annoyingly long contracts where
