My reddit Secret Santa gift has arrived
How awesome! My reddit Secret Santa sent me a cookbook that I have been wanting and also a bbq grill cover. Both were on my amazon wishlist. He did say that I am hard to shop for. This is actually very, very true but somehow he managed to get awesome stuff. Thanks, @frederikolafsen!
Personal payments with Venmo rock
Paypal. Ugh. Seriously has the interface changed in the last decade? I’m going with a resounding no. Yet it is still what haunts the internets like some creepy man giving out candies to small children. Oh and my dad and PA use it. I’ve been raving to people lately and sending invites out for Venmo (which […]
reddit gifts: where’s my secret santa?
This year I signed up for reddit secret santa. I love the idea of writing up a profile and getting matched to some stranger who I have to read their profile and then send them a gift. Such a fun idea! To get an idea of what it is watch the video. Me […]
My Book Live NAS failure
I’m so terribly, terribly disappointed and frustrated today by the fact that my Western Digital My Book Live NAS has decided to take a crap. Now it hasn’t take the biggest crap that a hard drive can take which is to be unrecoverable and files are all lost. But it has taken a crap in […]
My favorite app of the week: Caffeine
Do you ever get annoyed because your Mac screen turns off regardless of your screensaver or timeout/security preferences? Well, I do. There are a few times when I want to keep the screen on because when it blanks out and password locks it causes my proxy or other apps to somehow jam or disconnect. I […]
Karaoke that I don’t suck at?
Super excited for my Singtrix to show up for the holiday season. If you love karaoke, but can’t sing then this is for you. It comes with a mic, a stand, a 40-watt 2.1 sound system complete with subwoofer, and a shelf to hold your phone or iPad. Users can also download the Singtrix Karaoke […]
WordPress Notes
I am constantly having to make tweeks to my stupid wordpress to get permissions to work correctly, to get plug-ins to work, to get themes to display properly, to fix broken images, etc… so i’m going to just put some notes / fixes for certain things that I have tried and actually worked because I […]
Operation Media Center – Update 2013
It has been a few years since I first installed the media center and I have gone through a few iterations since its inception so I thought I’d write an update on what has changed. I have recently gotten rid of the Bluray player because I used it a total of zero times. I also […]
From 0-100MB/s on Comcast
Maybe not quite 0-100. More like 0-95. Actually when all is said and done it is more like 120MB! I’m talking about my very frustrating morning fighting with Comcast and fighting with my router to get a decent internet connection. Comcast is completely useless. Not that I expect anything different from them, but today they […]
And…this week in awesome
OK. I admit it. I was feeling pretty bummed out last week when I wrote my confessional. But this week I’m feeling way better. It might be because I have upgraded to a 15″ MacBook Pro with a retina display. Yeah. Seriously. Retina is like a game changer. I can’t go back to a normal […]