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I can now define myself as a geek, all thanks to Kasia: ” • Instead of sitting and eating in an airport, like the rest of the population, you walk around until you can spot a power socket.” Last night at Chicago Midway while waiting 2 hours for my flight, I walked around the terminal [...]

This is ridiculous: 70% spam this month. Sucks. Time to seriously consider installing a server-side spam filter.

Since ATA filed for bankruptcy today [more], I figured this was a timely post. Yesterday, I booked an appointment with a client in Moline, Iowa. I did so yesterday because the airplane tickets were anywhere from $600 – $700 to a direct flight to and from Austin to Chicago, and I can drive to Moline [...]

I just discovered Gapingvoid Blogcards by Hugh Macleod. Fucking awesome idea. Gonna have to order a few. update: I ordered 100 cards with the above image printed on them and my name and email address on the back… I figure they’ll be great as conversation starters at parties and the like. Figured I’d share that [...]

Today’s been a good day for me (so far) with respect to college football. My boys (Texas A&M) beat Colorado… who’d have thought they’d have a 6 game winning spree this season after last year? So, then I wanted to listen to the t.u./Texas Tech game after the wife and I walked around the block, [...]

I just sent this email to the customer service folks at Mobility Electronics: TO: iGoCustServ@pfsweb.com FROM: johnengler@gmail.com SUBJECT: Juice Problems DATE: October 21, 2004 I bought a Juice product through Amazon.com about a year and a half ago, and lately I’ve noticed that it hasn’t been charging my laptop very reliably… then, today I plugged [...]

I’ve been threatening to upgrade to MovableType 3.1 for a little while, and have decided I’m finally going to do it. Last night I backed up my website, and will be doing the upgrade either today, or later this week (just maybe over the weekend, but more than likely I’ll be doing it earlier than [...]

Jeremy Zawodny moved jobs inside Yahoo recently, and his post about it hit me like a hammer (emphasis mine): “And on that note, I love the fact that I can move around within Yahoo. Many companies talk about how employees are free to look at internal opportunities, but not all of them make it easy [...]

Today, I had the day off, so I played with iPodder, and set it up to download Adam Curry’s DailySourceCode Podcast. Podcasting is cool. It’s like talk radio without the radio… So, I listened to it while I was out mowing the lawn, and at about 6:57 into the daily podcast, Adam played Frank Sinatra’s [...]

Last night I bought two Airport Express units from Fry’s Electronics. I did this, because I finally surfed on an 802.11g base station over at my buddies house last week and was amazed at the speed of the connection. I had been using an 802.11b Airport that I bought when they first came out (years [...]

I saw a post on Forwarding Address: OS X about AppKiDo, and that made me remember David Every’s MacKiDo. MacKiDo was a truly fantastic website back when David was updating it with great Macintosh evangelism and truly useful and intriguing technical writings… MacKiDo was what the Daring Fireball wants to become. I miss MacKiDo.