Today I took possession of my FIFTH GOD DAMN iPOD. FIVE! Count them: 1. iPod #1, a 5GB first generation. Died within two days. Replaced under warranty. 2. iPod #2, a new (instead of refurbished) replacement to #1, lasted 10 months. Died from the click of death. 3. iPod #3, a refurbished 5GB unit, replacement [...]

This is the coffee pot at the office (it is actually a “coffee urn”). The skull and crossbones were not intended for the coffee. I know this because I am one of our two worst caffeine addicts at the office, and I am usually the one that brews the coffee. If I sucked at brewing [...]

Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero demonstrates the time honored tradition of the “spanish boobie grab” to Noemi Sanin, the Colombian ambassador in Spain upon his arrival in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, March 30, 2005. Photo Credit: AP, Via Yahoo

My old 5GB iPod has been recalled from retirement: Why? Because my god damned clickwheel iPod (20 GB) is as good as dead. The firmware is fine, but it refuses to write to disk, so I am betting there is something fishy going on. This iPod is only 4 months old, so as soon as [...]

That is pretty much the end of tonight’s episode of 24. Pure bullshit. It is so full of shit that this blog entry does not qualify as a spoiler.

Is that very day after when everyone at the office brings all the surplus candy: Worse still is being the resident nerd and not knowing half as much about Peeps lore as 2/3rds of the company. For example, I did not know about dueling Peeps with toothpicks inside a microwave oven! Peep Fighting Peep Jousting [...]

Here is Moncho’s reenactment of how I spent my Sunday: I usually nap in my bedroom but dev_null hinted I should give a try at napping in front of the TV. And damn it worked! I did spend some time doing some R&D on SOAP and data mining text sources, but most of the day [...]

While walking back from the burrito joint we were arguing about offices with and without windows. I said that sure, I do have windows in my office, but I am always so busy that sometimes days pass before I get to take a peek outside. Because of that I forget I put stuff on the [...]

I just caught myself staring at my keyboard. This is fresh from a nap, which obviously did not help me a god damn thing. The worst part is I am not even programming. The goal for the evening is to import ~145,000 records in a usable format in MySQL, and then write some kind of [...]

Finally! A free phone pic download service! Well, not really free since your carrier will probably nail you with a data transfer fee. Whatever. http://www.pix2fone.com/