Archive for February, 2008
A Do It Yourself Screw-up
Friday, February 29th, 2008Last week for some reason unknown to anyone, I decided it would be a good idea to take my old laptop and morph it into a digital picture frame. You know what I’m talking about; those picture frames that you plug into a wall while connecting a memory card and then the photo on [...]
Oh, White Death, How I Loathe Thee
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Listen: I’ll be the first to say that if it’s going to be cold, it might as well snow. But hold on; there are some stipulations that belong with that statement, and apparently Mother Nature didn’t check her voicemail (either that or she finds joy is screwing with the city).
Jonathan Lepolt’s Snow Rules:
If [...]
What the hell is going on here?
Friday, February 15th, 2008So if you haven’t heard, there was yet another tragic shooting on a college campus, this time at Northern Illinois University (article). I really do not have much to say about the situation, I mean, what can you do? Reports indicate that the gunman was a former student with a good academic record. There was [...]
Poll: Predicted Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain
Monday, February 11th, 2008I point to a previous post.
Weather.com says: …WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 12 PM EST TUESDAY…
A MIXTURE OF SNOW…SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE TUESDAY MORNING. PRECIPITATION WILL BECOME A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW DURING TUESDAY AFTERNOON. TOTAL SNOW AND SLEET [...]
iWeb Review: The Great, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Thursday, February 7th, 2008First of all, I apologize to all the non-Mac users that happen to fall upon this blog post, chances are you’re not going to care about this one much. I’d like to take a few minutes to review the latest version of Apple’s website design tool, iWeb ’08.
iWeb comes standard with the most recent versions [...]
Super Bowl XLII: General Thoughts
Monday, February 4th, 2008For this game I really didn’t care who won, although I have a strong dislike for Eli Manning and Tom Brady was my fantasy quarterback…so I was probably rooting for the Patriots. They lost, but again, I really didn’t care who won. We did get to see history being made since the starting [...]