Monthly Archives: January 2006

I’m glad I read Slashdot regularly. If I didn’t, I’d probably miss out on all the cool articles on Benjamin Franklin. See, today is the 300th anniversary of his birth and the news for nerds has a small posting with links to studies of his research. It turns out Ben Franklin had a very influential [...]

The website my wife created for our wedding is getting a bit old. We’ve been married for only three months but the site has nothing but wedding details that no one needs. I’ve set up a blog so people can check in for the latest goings on but don’t have a main page yet. Although [...]

Ok.. so the hard drive didn’t crash. I don’t know what happened but after I reseated the cables, my HD came back to life. I don’t know what caused it to do that but it has happened before. Except the last time it happened, I never got a ‘Can’t find NTLDR’ message – which usually [...]

I’m a huge fan of Calvin and Hobbes. I read it all the time when it was still being published and I read it whenever I can online. My brother, who’s also a huge C&H fan, gave me the entire book collection one year for Christmas. The comic is brilliant on so many levels. One [...]

The hard drive on my computer failed today. Thankfully, all my important data – my MP3s – are safe on another hard drive. I should have set up RAID 1 but I was thinking that it might be nice to use the extra space for data files and not waste a drive. Now it seems [...]