Doug

Doug

Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...

With Apologies To Homer Simpson

Chocolate and a Coke can – is there anything they can’t do? For those of you allergic to clicking on links, you’d be well advised to click that one, as it’s not often you get to see how to set…

Hmmmm.

Maybe the residents of the IBT should have been using perpendicular storage. (Okay, it’s no School House Rock, but it’s hard drive technology, for goodness’ sake! At least Hitachi is trying to keep people interested…)

You Might Be A Redneck If…

To add fuel to Nobrainer’s Wal Mart fire, not only is Wal Mart “responsible” for costing the taxpayers of the US $1.6B a year, it’s also responsible for helping launch Jeff Foxworthy’s career, thereby costing a goodly-sized portion of the…

Fingers Crossed On This One

Slashdot carries notice of the BBC’s review of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which they sum up in one sentence: “… somewhere in the production process the crew has lost sight of the fundamental aspect of the books – they…

Grrrrr.

This is ridiculous. I’ve been looking for a multi-user, multi-platform calendaring system for a long, long time and have yet to find a decent solution. How stinking hard can it be? I don’t care if it’s Open Source or commercial…

Beyond Geeky, But Absolutely Brilliant

Ever wanted to see a knock-down, drag-out fight between videogame hardware consoles before? Neither did I, at least before someone came up with an absolutely brilliant set piece pitting almost every recent console against the evil PSP as viewed through…

Amen To That

There has already been a good deal of hyperventillating from those on the Left about the elevation of Pope Benedict XVI, but there has also been a good bit of criticism from those on the Center-Right, including, surprise surprise, Andrew…