In a comment to my previous post, Katie asked if I knew anything about administrative rights in Windows Vista. Apparently, Vista won’t let her install any hardware or software. Honestly, I’m not surprised. The short answer, Katie, is that I have no idea. My experience with Vista is going, “ooh, that looks pretty,” which is…

I have a list of personal blogs that I read check on a daily basis, many of which are in the “Dailies” section in the sidebar. I’ve noticed a trend among many — perhaps I could go so far as to say most — of the blogs I read: They haven’t updated in a long…

That’s right, today is the day on which I was born, 26 years ago. If you want to express your appreciation for my existence, feel free to buy me the stuff on any of my wishlists (links in the sidebar). I also accept cash donations (this site doesn’t run itself and I’m looking to buy…

Remember how I was nominated for Employee of the Month last month, but didn’t win? Well, I was nominated again this month, and this time around I won! Hooray for me! Everyone keeps asking what I get for being Employee of the Month, which made me chuckle (is being recognized just not enough?). I got…

In case you missed it (I did), the font Helvetica turned 50 years old yesterday. You may be wondering why I’m excited about the birthday of a font. The simple answer is that I’m a geek, and that’s really the sort of thing that geeks get excited about. The slightly more in-depth answer (the “ah…

Britain’s Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has announced that he is going to, if you’ll excuse the pun, give up the throne on June 27th. Now if only we could get our president to do the same thing.

I bit my tongue really hard last night. Harder than I ever have before. So hard, in fact, that my teeth punctured the skin and I can see blood in three places on top (and I think there’s at least one spot on the bottom). Thankfully it’s not actively bleeding, there’s just blood where the…

Kickass British Indie Rock band The Kooks are playing a show in Seattle tonight. I’ve known about it since before it sold out, but can’t go because it’s a Thursday. Stupid not living in Seattle.

When I was in high school back in Hawaii, one afternoon my tech theatre teacher asked if anyone was going to go see Gaelic Storm. “No, what kind of music do they play?” we asked. “Irish music,” he replied. None of us were terribly impressed until he continued, “They’re that band from the party scene…

This is so going to be me.