Saturday, October 27, 2007

Interesting Idea...

I tried Googling myself tonight and found that there are plenty of people that share my name. And I was happy to find myself in the first ten results (and it was good profile of me on the Cal Alumni website). An interesting thing to do is to catalogue the different professions of all the S.D.'s and see which are most numerous. Afterall, what's in a name?

Sunday, October 21, 2007

vista and bush

The two subjects don't really have any thing in common, I just decided to combine two blogs. First, a couple weeks ago, I had the task of transferring data from a machine running windows xp to a machine running vista. Much to my dismay, windows decided to drop firewire networking support for vista. If it had been there, I would have been able to transfer files directly through a 400mb/sec connection. Instead, I ended up backing up everything to an external HD and then carefully moving over everything to the new machine. Needless to say, it was a hell of a job, and it makes me even more vehemently opposed to anyone having to use Vista.

The other subject is lighter. Here are two funny, fake pictures of our fearless leader: