September 2007
18 posts
“All-Star third baseman David Wright couldn’t find the bag to make an...”
– ESPN - Maligned Mets lose NL East lead, need help for playoffs - MLB I guess if you’re going to throw the lead during the last week of the season and now leave your fans worrying about whether you’ll even make the playoffs, then hitting two batters with the bases loaded is a good way to...
How I added my new Thawte Freemail Cert to...
Install VMware Workstation Install Windows XP … …and that, right there, is where any computer story has gone horribly wrong. If I have to go find a machine with Windows XP on it so that I can actually use your product, then there’s a failure to communicate going on. Stupid Thawte. Stupid Microsoft.
The Heinlein Archives →
And a future weekend of mine is very, very thankful for being devoted to pouring over the Heinlein Archives…
“Guillermo Mota insists that it doesn’t affect him while pitching, but the...”
– GROIN NOT AFFECTING MOTA | By MARK HALE | New York Mets So evidently, if you take enough steroids you can actually feel the shrinking while you’re on the mound…
How To: Get 32 AA Batteries from a Single 6 Volt... →
Well, this is just cool…
Times to End Charges on Web Site - New York Times →
Holy crap, it’s about time. I guess holding out - more out of sheer laziness than anything else - eventually paid off. I’m glad to see the Times opening up its archives and making so much great content available.
“The Web page is probably using the xenroll certificate control which has been...”
– Unable to request a Thawte Freemail X.509 certificate - Vista Security Dammit, now that my Freemail certs have expired, I can’t request a new one using Vista. How stupid is this?
Braz Brandt's Wishlist →
And, a link to my wishlist, which I’ve recently purged and updated…
The Official Site of Major League Baseball: Audio:... →
And since we’re talking about HR, here’s the link to the podcasts on MLB.com, including HR’s new show, “Lineup Card with Harold Reynolds”. But, at ~150MB per episode… wow. MLB needs to learn to compress the video a little, no?
Harold Reynolds Says Race Played a Role in His... →
Well, I was wondering if the story behind HR’s firing from Baseball Tonight was ever going to come out, and it looks like it’ll be a he-said, they-said bit for a while. HR was infinitely better than either Kruky or (and I throw up a little every time I mention his name) Steve Phillips. Since they broke up the trio of Ravich, HR and Gammons, Baseball Tonight really hasn’t...
Leatherman Skeletool: The Lightweight Multi-Tool... →
Boy howdy, but does that look nice. Curse you, Leatherman!
Amazon.com: George's Secret Key to the Universe:... →
Stephen Hawking (and his daughter Lucy) writing a children’s book to explain the universe? Awesome. This will make a fantastic Christmas present for Emma…
“After a nervous chuckle, I asked how he reads the newspaper. The answer: “On the...”
– A Brief Message
New "Blade Runner" cut is "how it should have... →
::sigh:: Screw you, Ridley Scott. I mean seriously, I’ve been having a hard enough time trying to convince Kristen that we need to get the DirecTV HD package with DVR, to go with the HDTV we bought when we moved in. Now, I’ve got to convince her that we need either a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player for a movie I “already have a copy of”? Crap.
O'Reilly - Safari Books Online - Mastering Perl →
Because lazy bastards like me enjoy not having to strongly type my variables. Implicit casting is the best.