James Chamberlin

I don’t follow the news quite as closely I did before 9/11, but I do read the news every day and this Iranian election mess has gone on much longer than I expected it would. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has done a decent job of suppressing the media, but hasn’t been able to quiet everyone. There [...]

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 [...]

Politics aren’t discussed around here often, but I thought this was a pretty nice cartoon:

I’m not a long-time user of RSS feeds. I’ve only bothered to use them recently (less than 6 months). One of the RSS feeds I use in Google Reader is from History Channel. For a few of their shows, they have episode guides in RSS form. It’s a good idea in theory, but they haven’t [...]

Although I follow the news and politics, it’s never something I feel compelled to discuss here. I guess it’s because I just get tired of it after a while and don’t want to bring it up again. Well, the fact that Hillary Clinton is still trying to become the nominee has, for me, at least, [...]

Two of my network cables arrived the other day. They’re of the three-foot variety, which is a little too short. I think I should have grabbed six-footers instead, but they will work nonetheless. The run isn’t all that long anyway. It’s just less cabling hanging down behind the desk I suppose. Anyway, I’ve been transferring [...]

I’ve been a frequent shopper at Amazon.com for quite a while. The prices are usually reasonable, though I usually wait for sales. But one thing [there are several, but I'll just mention one for today] that bugs me about their site is on the home page, they often have an announcement. It’s not all the [...]

I’ve been working on webpages off and on since 1999 and over the years I’ve used a lot of FTP programs. Being cheap, it can be difficult to find a free FTP program that’s worth my trouble. But I’ve found a few that I’ve liked, but they seem to always die in development. The last [...]

Just hours after yesterday’s blog entry, Ken Griffey, Jr. blasted home run number 597. As he gets closer to 597, he’ll get more press coverage.

I came across a post on another site courtesy of Digg this afternoon regarding Ken Griffey Jr.’s home run total. He’s currently at 596, four away from the next milestone of 600. And there’s very little press about this. When I was younger, I collected baseball cards with a frenzy. I still have some of [...]