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Monthly Archives: September 2004

teh sick.

by Rob Friesel

Ugh. I naively thought that I could escape the wrath of Whatever’s-Going-Around. But clearly I was mistaken. Rearing its ugly little viral head last night I confused infection for exhaustion and went to bed early. Only to wake up feeling like lead paint chips. So much for my productive week. Currently Playing: Basic Channel “q1.1 […]

Detonator-3 redux.

by Rob Friesel

My battle with The Computer Store From Hell ends today with what I’d like to consider a stalemate but am not too insecure to admit is really a loss on my part. “You’re outside of the return dates now so we can’t process the exchange on the power supply.” *le sigh* I want to think […]

geekery.

by Rob Friesel

Psst… Hey dad, it goes a little something like this: wget -m –progress=bar http://***…***…***/photos/ Of course, Cygwin w/ wget is required… But, hey, I did it on the PC. Now Playing: Boards of Canada “Alpha and Omega”

WWDC2004.

by Rob Friesel

Finally got around to watching the WWDC 2004 keynote. Impressive. Do I think Tiger will be as phenomenal as Panther? Not really. But then again, I’ve eased down off of so much of the Panther innovations (e.g., “love the *idea* of FileVault” and “Sidebar is cool but not the greatest thing ever…”) But hot damn […]

per-bloggery.

by Rob Friesel

Random notes, quickie thoughts before (bed?). <streamofconsciousness>Another night of on-call support? When will this end? Ugh. Bollocksy bullshit. And WTF? is up w/ a third-in-a-row un-use-able power supply? Doesn’t anyone have any standards? Any pride? Don’t you want your customer-base to come back? You sure as shit don’t do it by giving them DOA power […]