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Thanksgiving in Texas brings one thing: Aggie Football against t.u. That’s what we did this year after spending Thanksgiving day with family in Houston, we drove up to College Station. It’s been about 5 years since we’ve attended a t.u. game against the Aggies, and this weekend’s game was pretty decent. Sure, the Ags lost, [...]

Shit happens to me. Tonight, my best friend and I were driving out to Tae Kwon Do class (I started taking it for the first time in my life a few weeks ago). Right after the sun went down and as I was driving 50 mph or so, a deer darted out in front of [...]

Seems someone is pissed about Apple’s iPod batteries wearing down after 18 months… so mad, in fact, they’re even vandalizing the iPod posters around NYC. [see iPodDirtySecret.com] And the funny thing is, you can buy replacement batteries for the iPod for $50 … and the folks selling them have instructions for how to replace them [...]

This morning, I was subjected to a rant against Microsoft Office 2003 by my wife. She hates it. I’ve never used it, so this is my recreation of her story to me. Setting: We’re both on the couch, about to watch some Saturday morning College Football, when a commercial for Office 2003 comes on the [...]

John Porcaro posts about a presentation he attended by Bill Jensen: “Each of us has 1440 minutes in a day. And with each email we send, each task managers assign, each report we submit, each meeting we schedule, we use up part of someone else’s 1440 minutes. Minutes someone might spend being with their kids, [...]

The Time Warner service guys finally showed up today. After a full week, he showed up at 9:30 (right in the middle of ER) and fixed our cable connection… ugh… over 1,000 backlogged emails (700 of which Apple’s Mail thinks are spam) and 2400+ new items to read in NetNewsWire. I already feel like I [...]

I came home yesterday from a full weekend out of town with family to find my RoadRunner connection was dead. No amount of resettine the modem would kick it into gear. I finally called the service folks after realizing I wasn’t getting anything fixed. So, they dispatched a service man today to fix it. He [...]

I added a list of recently played tunes again to the sidebar… I used the “Kung-Tunes + Amazon” code I found on eclecticism to produce my particular format of displaying the tunes. So, now you can keep an eye on my musical tastes by coming back to this site periodically to see what’s playing and [...]

I’m up at 3:30 in the morning, because my poor dog hasn’t been able to sleep very well for the past few hours… you see, I own a Bichon Frise, and he has terribly sensitive skin. The poor guy has been waking himself up for the past few hours with violent shakes (all 12 pounds [...]

If there is one guy I’d hire based on something I’ve read that he wrote, it’d be Chris Heisel. I’d hire Chris Heisel to be an online advertising sales person, because he gets it. Example: Heisel: Beyond the click-through. Well written article about branding and online advertising and its long term effects… The article is [...]

I was chatting with my good friend Misha tonight, and I decided to ask him about memory pageins and pageouts (which I honestly don’t know anything about, and Misha’s the best Mac guy I know) because I’ve noticed a slight performance degredation over time with the new PowerBook (nothing too serious, just a slight laggardness [...]

The Wife and I went to our first Halloween party in Austin on Friday night with a bunch of friends. We took a bunch of photos and you can see them all here (the clean ones at least — yes, it got a little raunchy). It was a fun night…

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Google Error before, but now I can say I have. I got this message while trying to check my AdSense account: [Click For Full Screen Capture] I guess there’s a first for everything…