Archive for December, 2008

Dec 23 2008

OMG UPS Sucks

Published by James under Other

I’ve never had any huge routing problems with any of the shipping companies (USPS, UPS, DHL, FedEx, etc), but a recent package shipped via UPS has been completely misrouted.  I’ve had packages get shipped to the wrong state due to an error before, but not quite like this.  It was shipped from Ohio (get your [...]

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Dec 14 2008

Blu-Ray Question

Published by James under Other

Alright, I finally opened my wallet and forked out a nice stack of cash for a Panasonic Plasma HDTV and Panasonic Blu-Ray player (along with a few movies), but I have a question about the BD-Live feature that many discs are coming with.
I presume all BD-Live content is stored on remote servers and is downloaded [...]

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Dec 12 2008

Charter Glitch

Published by James under Other

I don’t have a whole lot to report these days. It’s a little slow right now. Charter (my ISP/Cable Provider/Phone Provider) had a problem with a line. It was damaged somewhere near Madison, WI apparently and affected everyone in the area. Here, we had problems with all three services though the [...]

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Dec 11 2008

WordPress Upgrade

Published by James under Other

Damn, another one. I hate upgrading WordPress because there’s always a chance of me making a mistake that will screw something up. I have a history of user errors with this thing.
The Dashboard looks completely different. I’m looking forward to playing around with this a bit.

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Dec 03 2008

Snow and Exercise

Published by James under Personal

We got a little snow the other day, maybe two inches or so and another two inches today. It started at about 9-10am this morning and finished in the late afternoon. The flakes this time were quite small but heavy, bending some of the pine tree branches all the way down to the [...]

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