Oftentimes at work, when big projects come up that require my involvement, some stupid little dreamer will make a valiant but ultimately useless attempt to plan out its completion with a project management tool. Eventually they ask me for a timeframe for completion of my part of the work. I really want to [...]

…For sitting around totally wasting time! No, not for fighting. What? You were expecting me to say “fighting?” My, aren’t you strange.
A little while ago, Apple bought me an early Valentine’s Day / birthday present: the latest album from J-pop group Round Table, featuring the vocal talents of Nino. Entitled [...]

I used to do this a lot—pick a “ridiculous lawsuit” story or some other tale of human idiocy from the headlines—and spout off about it. But it’s been a while since I dragged out that dog and pony show, so how about it? This story is certainly an apt choice.
One evening in Durango, [...]

The cast of Enterprise

“Star Trek: Enterprise…has been cancelled.” Okay, you were supposed to be hearing the voice of the Wildfire central computer from The Andromeda Strain as you read that line. If you didn’t, your nerd index is insufficient to continue reading this [...]

Bah! Motivation quotient has been gunning for all-time record low levels these past few days. Today I got tasked with creating more of those delicious directory ad banners, so my work ethic has officially been obliterated.
Over at Inside Firefox, the weblog of a Firefox developer, author Ben Goodger digs up some history on [...]

In the venerable words of Stimpy, “Oh joy!” Because it seems the dealer we bought our Mazda6 from has gone bankrupt, according to the Naples Daily News.
The dealership, Morande Mazda, had actually been sued umpteen times for failure to pay debts dating as far back as 2003. Records even show that the namesake [...]

I’ve finally had it with the Netflix plugin I was using to display my current rentals on the sidebar. Some of you probably noticed that this site has been loading abysmally slowly for the past few days. At first I thought the server I was hosted on was experiencing some kind of MySQL [...]