Another weekend come and gone. Felt like one day instead of two. That’s what can happen when you sleep till noon on your days off.
I’m rather pissed off at Comcast. I played a three-player game of Forza with Pooch and Reaper today over Xbox Live and kept getting disconnected. Then this evening, Apple was trying [...]

I’ve just finished updating the underpinnings of Oddball Update, WordPress, to version 2.5, a milestone release with a lot of new features. Among the biggest changes are a totally redesigned admin area, which most of you don’t get to see. Too bad for you.
The part of the site that you do get to [...]

This year, the Major League Baseball season opened in Tokyo, as it has several times now over the last decade. But Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution doesn’t like it. Why? Maybe because — to him — it flies in the face of baseball tradition. Or maybe it’s because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in [...]

“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact,” Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper. Starck, who is known for his interior design of hotels and Eurostar trains and mass consumption objects ranging from chairs to tooth brushes and lemon juice squeezers, went on to say that he believed that [...]

In a startling display of quickness, apparently my Xbox 360 has been repaired. I missed the first attempted delivery by UPS earlier, but will be on the lookout for it tomorrow. Of course, had Microsoft actually e-mailed me that my repairs were complete (like they said they would), I would have known to be on [...]

(Although maybe it should.)
Detroit Mayor Charged in Sex Affair
Kwame Kilpatrick, the mayor of Detroit, and his mistress former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty have been charged this morning with a combined 12 counts of felony perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy. They both have until 7 a.m. tomorrow to turn themselves in or they [...]

We’re back from Orlando, and I’m back to work. It was a great few days off, everything went swimmingly (with a minor exception or two) and I’m feeling envigorated and ready to tackle some new tasks at work. Many thanks to my parents for sparing some extra Vacation Club points to let us [...]

Well, the packing box for my Xbox 360 was delivered yesterday (which I discovered merely by chance, as the UPS driver didn’t so much as knock at my door), and I dropped it off at the nearest UPS Store this morning. Let’s hope it gets repaired in a somewhat timely fashion.
There was a slightly amusing [...]

Well, it finally happened.
Knowing that my Xbox 360 was purchased about five or six months after Chief Oddball’s, I’ve been counting the days since his 360 died last year, awaiting my own console’s failure. It took slightly longer than I anticipated, but this morning while playing my rented copy of Lost Odyssey my console locked [...]

In just over a week, Apple and I will be embarking upon the next episode of what has become an annual ritual: a vacation to Disney World. Since 1988, this miniature city on the outskirts of Orlando has been woven into my life in some form or another, and over the years I’ve regarded [...]