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"It's not news - It's CNN" is so totally accurate

2008-08-23T23:45:36Z

I'm not sure how many of you were paying attention to the whole "OMG! We found a Bigfoot!" media orgy that happened last week, but it's something that you should have been watching, and here's why. It was being portrayed as news. Here's what happened. A couple of redneck morons claimed that they found a Bigfoot carcass so they tossed that son-of-a-bitch in a freezer trunk and started calling Bigfoot enthusiasts and news agencies. Now, if you're thinking that this is where the...(read more)

Crot? Heepy? I don't know...

2008-08-10T23:22:40Z

Quick! I need a word that combines "Creepy" and "Hot" to describe this ....(read more)

HP's Windows Home Server - What A Pain in My Ass

2008-08-10T01:21:46Z

I've been dogfooding Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 for a long time, now. For those of you who aren't aware, it's basically a service pack for Home Server that adds a few features and fixes some bugs (like the data corruption issue). Now that PP1 is released, I figured it was time to update to the RTM build. But I couldn't because I was stupid a while ago. I was running low on space, so I delete all of the backup files for applied hotfixes because I never uninstall them. Except, you...(read more)

Delaying the move for a while...

2008-08-07T18:15:00Z

I still haven't gotten the redirection working correctly, and I've found a few things about Live Spaces that I don't really like (namely, you have to have a Live ID to comment on my blog). So, in the mean time, I'll port the few posts I made on bbg.live over to bbg.com and crosspost all new posts....(read more)

Calvin and Jobs

2008-08-07T00:20:00Z

I just saw this over at Gizmodo. I've loved Calvin and Hobbes since I was a kid, and I think this is a fabulous extension of it....(read more)

The Aristocrats

2008-08-02T07:14:00Z

Emmi and I are at a wedding for one of her best friends this weekend. We're staying in this awesome bed and breakfast (aside: I've never stayed in a "BnB", as I've heard them called, before. I have no idea what the protocols are. Also, ".com" looks like ".corn" when I don't have my glasses on). Earlier tonight we were at the rehearsal dinner, along with copious amounts of people I don't know. When it was time to get some food, I crippled...(read more)

The New BBG

2008-07-30T21:19:00Z

My previous host for BBG was actually pretty cool. There was program through work that allowed me to host a website for free, as long as it used pre-release technology. Long story short, BBG was being hosted for free but was experiencing a lot of downtime. I was really OK with that up until a few weeks ago when I tried to post a blog entry and was told that the database was full. It's still full now. The management tools for the site just plain suck, and honestly, I don't...(read more)

Changing BBG, moving servers, content management systems

2008-07-30T21:10:00Z

Moving to Live Spaces. http://bigblackglasses.spaces.live.com . Will redirect soon....(read more)

How I Spent My Wednesday Night

2008-07-24T22:26:00Z

Emmi is out of town for the latter part of this week, so once again, I am temporarily a bachelor of sorts. Now, you might ask yourself "Mike - how do you spend your time now that you're temporarily a bachelor of sorts?", but that would be stupid of you. You should be asking me, because I know the answer to that question. If you're asking yourself, you'll either already know the answer, or you'll never get an answer. Idiot. So, I spent last night hiring and killing prostitutes,...(read more)

I don't have the words...

2008-07-04T02:25:00Z

Fuzzy sent me a link to this video: I really don't even know what to say about it. I actually watched the whole thing. I've long been of the opinion that, if you took all of the time that people have used to create things like this, and devoted it to other things like, you know, cancer or AIDS or space travel, the human race would be in a much better place than it is right now... And I think I'm still right....(read more)

Apple, AT&T, and some crap about a new iPhone

2008-06-10T07:36:41Z

So Apple announced their new 3G iPhone today, and I was seriously considering purchasing one. That is until I read these two articles. This article posits that AT&T and Apple are making it so that one will need to activate the iPhone in the store, not at home, just like every other cell phone out there. That’s sort of the pain in the ass, but not as much as a small footnote at the bottom indicating that they’re trying to come up with some way to penalize people who don’t officially...(read more)

Not Thirsty

2008-05-13T03:50:00Z

I've been sober for a year. Wel, not totally sober - I've had a beer every now and then, but compared to the amount that I used to drink it's hardly worth mentioning. In all honestly, I could probably count the number of beers I've had in the last year on one hand (using base-2). I say that I've been sober for a year because I haven't been drunk for a year. And compared to how often I used to be drunk, that's something worth mentioning....(read more)

Apocalypse Now Redux Redux

2008-04-16T09:28:00Z

Our first week in Vietnam has come and gone, and it's still great. We just got back into Saigon from a trip to Nha Trang, which is an ocean-side city about 45 minutes (flying) from Saigon. It was fantastic. We spent two whole days sitting in front of the ocean on beach-chairs drinking cheap drinks and eating fresh seafood. The first night, we swam in the ocean just as the stars were coming out. The second day, the ocean was angry. There's a tropical storm (neoguri) off the coast that's...(read more)

From Geeks to Dragons... wait, what?

2008-04-08T09:05:00Z

For those of you playing along at home, that's a reference to a series of blog entries I did in a past life about a trip I took to China. It has nothing to do with this post. Emmi and I have landed in South Korea, and we're sitting outside of an internet cafe that has apparently forgotten to secure their wireless internet connection. We haven't slept yet, and we're probably bio-hazards after having been on an airplane for 12 hours... and we have another 5 hours flight later tonight....(read more)

I was going to write a new post...

2008-04-01T04:31:00Z

but that seems like an awful lot of work. I have nothing immediately new to report. I've been working far, far too much. Though, I'm on the brink of an exciting vacation. Emmi and I are leaving for three weeks in Vietnam next Monday. I'm sure I'll have some good things to talk about once we're there....(read more)