I was just looking back through the calendar of posting for earlier this year and was amused by the sporadic posting schedule that I “followed”. If you go back to January (or even farther), you can see how infrequently I posted back then. Now we’re up to a respectable 3 posts a week schedule, and [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2009
Buying Glasses Online – Part 2
As I mentioned last time, glasses are expensive. Having previously covered Zenni Optical and 39DollarGlasses, I wanted to move onto EyeBuyDirect.com, Goggles4U.com, and CoastalContacts.com. Similar format as last time, and please let us know if you have had any interaction with these vendors. Thus far, Jon and I have only ever used Zenni.
Getting VMware vSphere working on Windows 7
I’ve been running VMware ESXi 3.5 on one of our servers at work; I have been also been running the VMware Infrastructure Client (for 3.5) and it worked just perfectly. Now I’m going to upgrade to EXSi 4.0, so I figured I’d upgrade VMwave vSphere, which seems to be the exact same software. Anyways, as [...]
StarCraft 2: From Day One Purchase to Piracy
I think it is safe to say that Starcraft (the original) was one of my all time favorite games. It is one of those few rare games that I kept going back to playing time and time again (much like Planetside). If I didn’t have it installed, inevitably it would be installed at the next [...]
Buying Glasses Online – Part 1
Glasses are expensive. Even with insurance, glasses are expensive; thankfully, the internet is home to a host of other options that your local optometrist might not have at his or her disposal. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with buying from your local optometrist, far from it (got my moto glasses and SCUBA mask from [...]
Hasteno is a Scam
I just want to preface this posting with the obvious: This is my personal investigation of the site. I could be wrong, though I don’t think I am. If you’ve got more information on this website, I’m all ears. Hateno.com. Is. A. Scam. I thought I’d make it really simple for everyone as to what [...]
PHP & CURL – Expectation Failed
I’ve been doing some reasonable amount of programming as of late, working for miscellaneous projects around the Wikimedia universe. I’ll announce the specific projects as I get things to a “finished” or releasable point. For now I thought I’d tease you with random bits of “fun” I encounter when working with PHP. Today’s posting is [...]
Out of the groove
For me, there are some things that are really easy to hop in and out of the “groove” of doing them. Most of those activities are computer related. Writing, however, isn’t one of them. I’ve always had the damnedest time getting into the mood of writing and keeping it up. The posting history of the [...]
Review: Swoop It Now
After our previous entry on Swoopo.com was tweeted automatically by Jon (via twitterfeed), he got a reply from @Swoopo asking if he would like to write a post about Swoop It Now. When he eventually saw the tweet (we were on vacation remember?), he replied and let them know that I was the author which [...]
Today In: We’re Back!
We were gone, but now we’re back! Did you miss us? What? You didn’t even notice we were gone? I suppose that could have been because we scheduled the entries ahead of time (something Jon mentioned previously) so as to continuously provide you with new and exciting things (for certain values of “new” and/or “exciting”). [...]