Entries for Monday, February 18, 2008
➠ February 18, 2008
It’s disturbing how good I’ve gotten at the shell game of shunting balances between credit cards to avoid interest payments. *sigh*
Posted to Twitter at 11:36 p.m.
Newegg.com - Western Digital 250GB Notebook Hard Drive
Reportedly, the perfect thing to supersize the diskspace of your MacBookPro. Wicked tempted to get one, cause iTunes is bastard-slow when your 116Gb MP3 collection is on a network drive.
Today for the first time I restored files from Time Machine, and created a spreadsheet in Numbers. Both worked as advertised. Thanks Apple!
Posted to Twitter at 9:51 p.m.
Going through wedding photos I had scanned by ScanCafe, picking the ones I want high-res copies of. Man, that was a fun day.
Posted to Twitter at 8:43 p.m.
CD Purchase: Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
Her cover of "I Go To Sleep" (the best Ray Davies song the Kinks never recorded) is sublime.
Attention recruiters: Starting your unsolicited emails with “Hi @firstname” does *not* give me a warm-and-fuzzy about your placement skills.
Posted to Twitter at 3:26 p.m.
Headsup: MHD (the HD MTV channel) has a half-hour PJ Harvey live set in rotation. Sexiest person with a west-country accent EVAR!
Posted to Twitter at 2:35 p.m.
Hey! When did yelp.com stop giving me access to the full reviews *I* wrote in my RSS feed? Fuck that. /me starts writing yelp.com scraper.
Posted to Twitter at 2:31 p.m.
Bloc11 is crazy busy. Such a nice environment. So glad it’s five minutes walk from my front door.
Posted to Twitter at 1:34 p.m.
Off to Bloc 11 to read, drink coffee, eat a delicious sandwich, and bring back a mint brownie for the missus. Hooray for days off!
Posted to Twitter at 12:28 p.m.
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