Why name an entry after an Amboy Dukes song? Because I wanted to post about some of the random stuff I was thinking, and that song popped into my head. It tends to just do that. It must be The Nuge. You don’t say “no” to The Nuge.

The Detroit Pistons are [...]

Perhaps the worst thing about today is that there really isn’t any good reason why it all went so wrong. Burdened by a near-total lack of motivation to do much of anything, I accomplished little in the way of work. Part of it is due to how humdrum and tedious my current task [...]

“V6, come to section J immediately.” Ha — I had to trot out another Doctor Who joke for today’s launch of Oddball Update 6.0, just to pay homage to the version 4 announcement which began similarly. Anyway, welcome to Oddball Number Six, bearing absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to Cylon Number Six, about which [...]

No, that’s not the latest ridiculous task I’ve been saddled with by a client or anything like that. It’s the thought I had just now as I was sitting here, looking at this site, and browsing the web for examples of what other people have done with their blogs, design-wise. I mostly don’t [...]

Apple and I conducted a fun picture-taking session this evening after dinner, and the result is a new gallery of GTO photos highlighting the new window tint I just had installed. It was a beautiful evening for capturing some images, and most of them came out really nicely. We shot some in-car video [...]

I think I managed to get more work done on Saturday than I did for the last several weekdays. Since this morning I’ve been trying to make some progress on my list of side work, and actually accomplished quite a bit. In fact, one entire project is now done. Tomorrow I’ll be [...]

Seems like whenever I move my site to a new web host, whether by choice or by some extenuating circumstance, I start getting in the mood to redesign it. Granted, it doesn’t exactly need redesigning again, but I’m no longer infatuated with this look. I’m thinking it’s time for something cleaner, lighter, smoother, [...]

If you’re seeing this, it means I’ve moved Oddball Update to a new web server and your ISP is now pointing you at the new location. If you’re a regular reader, please drop me a comment here and let me know if you think the page loads are faster, slower or about the same.

I thought (hoped?) it was just me, but the performance of the server my web domains are hosted on has really gone to hell lately. I noticed I’ve got one vote for “Frakking Horrible Loading Times” in my sidebar poll, and I certainly don’t blame ya, because I completely agree. Such is the [...]

Recreation: It’s Better Than Oxygen.™ Sure, you won’t asphyxiate if you don’t perform some recreational activity every few seconds, but partaking in such activities sure has a way of revitalizing you like nothing else. Not even canned oxygen, like 7-11 is going to start selling in Japan. Frankly, I got all the [...]