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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 […]

I was just perusing the Dell web site to get a sense of how much a high end box from them would cost (as opposed to building one myself).  While pricing things out, I noticed that the XPS series of systems come with "Windows Vista Ultimate Bonus".  Hmmm, out of the roughly 73 versions of […]

While waiting for a client’s server to finish installing something, I jumped over to the Fox news site to see what was going on.  In there, there was an article about the recent ruling that Washington D.C.’s handgun ban was unconstitutional, and the filing of a lawsuit against the city of Chicago to try to […]

Joe Healy last night apparently decided that my new nickname is crotchety bastard. Well, all I have to say to that is: "am not!" (even though my IM greeting is now "crotchety bastard".) Besides, how cute is this – our puppy cuddling with her bunny, and stuck amongst the wheels of a chair so that […]