Archive for September, 2008
Crank Ringtone
I saw “Crank” (great action flick with Jason Statham) when it came out in theaters like 2 years ago… But, I hadn’t seen it since then.
It’s a 100% guy movie, and it’s unique enough to be an interesting watch.
Anyway – I re-watched it today because I woke up way too early, and it was available [...]
Road Trip
So today, as previously posted, I worked. Our bank is trying out new saturday hours where one IT person has to be on staff in case of issues.
Overall a pretty quiet day, and then I misused the shutdown command.
At our Lansing branch, there’s been a computer on for a few days that still has [...]
DD-WRT
I’m writing this post from work; since it’s my first time doing a Saturday rotation and there is nobody else around.
I’ve known about DD-WRT for a long time. But, probably not many other people have. So, let me start with a little background. DD-WRT is an open-source linux based firmware for consumer grade [...]
HD Cable Surprise
For about the past year, I’ve used a small indoor antenna to pick up local HD channels. It’s always worked pretty well for me – allowing me to pick up Wood, WZZM, and Fox17 without any trouble. This has served pretty well for me, especially since I downgraded my Comcast cable to the LOWEST possible level [...]
Consolidating Gmails
I’ve been using Gmail for a pretty long time now. And over the years I’ve accumulated several random gmail addresses (palmerforpresident@gmail.com; eric.vanbergen@gmail.com; vanberge@gmail.com, vanberge@comcast.net, etc.)
So today I finally took a much needed step to combine all those accounts into my main Gmail account. First, I set every one of my other gmail addresses to simply [...]
Google Chrome
While I am not the biggest fan of the name, I am completely sold on Google’s new web browser: Chrome.
I can’t believe I didn’t hear about this sooner, But this morning on FOX17’s morning show I heard “Google is planning to launch a new internet browser… etc.” And that it was launching TODAY. How could [...]