I dropped off my XBox 360 at the UPS Store this afternoon. As this is the third time I’ve had to send the unit back in two years, I thought I’d make a joke as I walked into the store (we have a mailbox there, so the guys there know me). Brandishing the unmarked box…
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I am *so* pissed. Like everyone else, I installed the next generation user interface on my XBox when it came out. It look pretty good, and the Netflix setup went smoothly (I already have a Roku so I knew what to expect). Unfortunately, ever since the upgrade, the machine has been locking up. At first…
I did it! After many months of keeping my inbox down to around 40-50 items, I have finally reached nirvana – no items in the inbox! Now of course the trick will be to keep it down to that. Keep your fingers crossed, and don’t send me email just to try to fill up my…
1 – if John McCain wins, under no circumstances will this be accepted by the losing side. Plan on screams of stolen elections. I don’t think McCain will win, but if he does, oh boy, prepare for a heck of a show. McCain said it best in this video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ql1RLDVWzY. It is a hilarious…
When you don’t have children, and you don’t have much family that is close to you, it becomes quite difficult to figure out what to do with whatever is left after your own death. In my case, obviously everything goes to my fiancee in the event that something happens to me, but not to her. …
I was happy to see that Regal Honda/Acura apologized fairly quickly (see comments in my previous post) for the misleading marketing piece. I’ll be keeping an eye out on their physical mail to see if they mis-use the "Urgent!" warnings, but I’m still not enabling them to email me again. I’m not in the market…
This morning I received an email titled: "Urgent Service Notice from Regal Honda/Acura". Thinking that perhaps there was something in there regarding a recall or something, oh I dunno, "urgent" about my TSX, I opened the email. Of course, based on the title of this post you can imagine that there wasn’t anything urgent in…
While I am intrigued by Spore, despite the mediocre reviews, I won’t be buying it. Unfortunately, EA has decided to put really draconian DRM onto Spore. Now, I can understand what they’re trying to do (although we all know that every single game that has ever had DRM on it has been cracked virtually immediately),…
A few days ago I had to run one of the many Small Business Server wizards on my 2003 SBS server to repair a problem with Internet access. As soon as I tried to run it, it came up with an error message that the wizard "can only be run on a small business server…
I just tried to run the Zune software and it went down in flames. I’m running a theme on my machine that makes the error message look a bit different, but I think you might see the problem here: In order to troubleshoot, I need to enter that huge URL into a browser and make…