The Geek and I

Stop SOPA

mike — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:29:12 +0000

SOPA SUCKS

Sun’s Project Blackbox – where are you now?

mike — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:50:10 +0000

I loved this idea back in 2006 and snagged a few of the pics from Sun during their marketing of the project. I have included links to other sites and my Google image search query. So, what happened to this project? I know Google and others are now using this same base idea for their [...]

Siri, my first weekend with you

mike — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:19:04 +0000

Just screen caps – with duplicates as photo stream was kicking my ass. Warning, this is a VERY long post!

Mac OS X Lion resizes Terminal.app windows

mike — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:56:18 +0000

I’m not alone with this annoyance based on my few talks with other people and some internet findings. Why does Lion keep resizing my horizontal window settings for Terminal.app? It is driving me insane. Here’s the deal – I have 6 windows in my default group and all of them are 80 columns wide and [...]

iOS 5 can’t come soon enough!

mike — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:23:07 +0000

While the NDA is in place I can’t talk about the details but I am very excited for this to hit GM. The new features and updates are a very welcome change. Lots of “fun” coming, lots of usability improvements, and very stable. I’m hoping the rumors are true and Apple announces this the first [...]

Mac Pro vs Newegg special

mike — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:19:06 +0000

Over at troll-haven Tech-Seeker, the author posted a completely incorrect comparison between buying a PC and a Mac Pro without any real apples to apples comparisons in the hardware. Besides the complete failure to match up the systems, the hardware chosen is woefully out of date. Apple hasn’t sold a 24″ display in a long [...]

Bond, 007 movies on Netflx

mike — Sun, 29 May 2011 00:24:43 +0000

So awesome! The Internet delivers. Quite a few to stream. My kids are getting much enjoyment watching movies I watched when I was a kid. Thanks, Netflix!

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm – I take back my negative comments

mike — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:04:21 +0000

Just a little while ago, I had posted a message with some negative feelings towards the newest expansion for World of Warcraft. I take it all back, so far things are quite smooth, the combo-lock for 10 and 25 person raids works just fine, and I love that tanks and healers are important again. It [...]

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm…and?

mike — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:53:36 +0000

I am excited and at the same time I feel this is my last expansion pack I’ll be involved with with this MMO. Wrath of the Lich King created homogenization and very bad playing styles. Cataclysm may fix some of this but my hopes are not high based on both PTR and beta playing. So [...]

Newegg – admits to being a purveyor of unsolicited email

mike — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:53:35 +0000

Reference my previous article for background. Today, Maverick (from Newegg) called me to confirm that the email address, that had never been published, has been removed from their systems. He then went on after I stated it has never been published that all he has to go on is my word that I have never [...]

Newegg – from nerdy/geeky to spammer in just 2 business days

mike — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:31:29 +0000

Wait, before you go all ‘just delete the fucking email’ on me, read this entire post. Starts out on August 18th, 2010 – first email received to a completely unpublished alias I have at the $orkplace: Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:46:38 -0700 From: info@biz.newegg.com To: [redacted] Subject: Our Gift to You: Receive a WD [...]

iPhone 4 + FaceTime

mike — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:12:54 +0000

Oh it is kind of cool. But a complete and utter waste of programming. Could be handy for showing someone what’s up with hardware by flipping to the back camera. Could be fun for phone #%* in a desperate moment…maybe. But it just isn’t natural to use. Positives? Video is amazing! Pause and resume when [...]

iPad first impressions

mike — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:03:34 +0000

This thing is a blast! Cannot wait to try out OmniGraffle for this bad boy. Performance is fantastic and the screen is a beauty. Keyboard will take some getting used to though. 1Password needs to update, and a few things are funky, like Mint – took me a few tries for it to let me [...]

MacHeist wins again

mike — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:28:08 +0000

I love MacHeist! I find software that I have never thought to try before, like journaling software, items to take my mind off of the stress of life, or even software to help me look at what is going on with my disk storage. The current MacHeist has software for getting cover art for iTunes, [...]

New Mac Pro 2009

mike — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:27:23 +0000

pics of my new shiny Mac Pro! Decided it was time for an upgrade as running 3-4 VMs at once was getting to be a little … slow at times. And having VMs eating processor and RAM while playing World of Warcraft? For shame! Work and play at the same time causes sumthin’ sumthin’… New [...]

World of Warcraft continues homogenization

mike — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:44:45 +0000

Watching the number of people pugging and the overall decline on the average raider capability proves this out. This afternoon, I did a pug VoA25 on my alt. And was #3 on damage and DPS, wearing T7 pieces. I missed #2 by about 20k damage and 15 DPS. That’s just one rotation difference. #2 was [...]

iPhone 3G S fails activation? Read on!

mike — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:15:40 +0000

Call 1-800-331-0500 Have your iPhone 3G S box handy. Explain that your iPhone 3G S won’t activate and that you would like to read off your IMEI and SIM Card # and ICCID # from the back of the box. Power off, Power on. Zing! You are done! How easy is that? Found info via [...]

Apple & AT&T Fail Activiation 3rd year running

mike — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:38:50 +0000

Each time an iPhone release is done, the activation system is overload. Both phones for my wife and I failed (look below), while friend of mine just did his phone moments ago and went through fine. Guess I get to wait the ’48 hours’ or some such. Todays fail included for your viewing enjoyment… Now [...]

iPhone OS 3.0 not for everyone, with a battery…

mike — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:03:05 +0000

OOoh, so I upgrade my 3G (and my wife’s 2G) to 3.0 yesterday. And now we both have battery life issues with the battery draining quite quickly and charging is pretty lame as it charges but never gets full. Others via the Apple forums are seeing the same thing. I’ll be updating and adding to [...]

I have been cheating on you

mike — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:12:16 +0000

Sorry, but it is true. I figured we had an open relationship. At least I hope that’s the case. If not then please do accept this sincere apology. Regardless I’ll try to do better, I promise. The $ayjob takes my time and keeps me busy..a lot. Balancing said job + family + WoW is quite [...]

Yahoo adds publishing to WordPress Blogs

mike — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:43:04 +0000

In the newest edition of the ever present Yahoo! Mail Beta game, applications are now available to allow many different things. One of them…blogging to your WordPress blog! Now this is a little overboard, but I figure I’d post via their new application into my personal blog. Ignore, or not. Soon you’ll be able to [...]

The Omni Group releases much of their software for free

mike — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:59:10 +0000

This is a HUGE surprise to learn that The Omni Group has released OmniWeb, OmniDazzle, OmniDiskSweeper, and OmniObjectMeter for free for all to download. Announcement was here and I am very excited. Why? I find that OmniWeb is an excellent browser for testing many things, and because of the ability to set hard defines on [...]

Applebee’s Family Restuarant is not

mike — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:06:19 +0000

Horrible! Maple Grove, MN Sat for almost 15 min without anyone coming by to see us. No biggy, let’s engage manager! Went to bar and asked the woman behind the counter to find me a manager. She went to far side of bar and called someone. 2 minutes later…nada. So…went to table and told family (including [...]

VMware Fusion vs Parallels: Windows Server 2008 Install

mike — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:06:43 +0000

Oh my, no contest. Fusion installed approximately 50% faster than Parallels. In fact, I think Win2K8 installs faster virtually (ESX, ESXi, Fusion, and Parallels) faster than on native hardware via standard DVDROM. Not much more to say, was just an unexpected outcome/observation.

VMware Fusion 2.x vs Parallels Desktop 4.0 – my thoughts

mike — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:54:49 +0000

First, I had a problem with Parallels during an upgrade on my laptop – I was forced to reactivate Windows after the virtual conversion was completed. This is quite frustrating as one of the great points of virtualization of a system is that the underlying hardware isn’t changing. I will try to not let this [...]

VMware ESXi is cool

mike — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:40:26 +0000

Oh man if you have wanted to try virtualization with almost all the bells and whistles, then this is the hypervisor for you. While full hardware support is limited, the features to performance to price cannot be beat. Two thumbs up! Thank you VMware!

iPhone blogging

mike — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:23:08 +0000

Wow! What a way to really waste time than to blog from your iPhone when the feeling arises. And pictures! No way! Now will it work…and if so, will I spew more random gibberish no one wants to read except my good friends who feel sorry for me? Let’s hope not! Those poor readers. This [...]

Google thinks my blog is possessed?

mike — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:27:32 +0000

Very odd, got a report that my site has a problem according to their safe-site analysis. Now, that’s all great and dandy, but the data returned from the link above (Tuedsay, June 24th, 2008 at 18:20 CST) doesn’t give any reason except: Of the 9 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 [...]

My friend is less lame than I about blogging

mike — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:29:33 +0000

Over at the Notag site, you’ll find Linghu/компютри втора употребаGileon expounding on the wonders that are WoW. You see, we play together many nights after 11:15PM Central, either me on my huntard or my paladin, and normally he is on his huntard. We have done a lot of things over the last few months together that [...]

Why have a blog if you do not use it?

mike — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:49:35 +0000

A great question, one of which I can not answer. I have this blog because I wanted some place to spew <whatever> <whenever> I wanted, the issue is…I have had not a lot to say. In fact, most of what I use the web for nowadays is to read up on things that are of [...]