So I just saw this post over at the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog. To wit, ” Monad will not be included in the final version of Windows Vista”. So this leaves me wondering, what is left in the famous “Longhorn” release? It seems like the bulk of the new Windows operating system is a …
Category Archives: General
What’s up?
Ok, so if I complete a two year old project for a class I took an incomplete in, I can stay in school. Yeah! The bad news is that I’ve not really feeling well right now (you really don’t want to know), and making progress is hard. I’ve also got the main bathroom in the …
Life changes
The spring semester is over, and with it I’ve hit a milestone in my graduate career, or at least I’m supposed to have. This was to be my last semester of classes (and I’m 3 overdue for the end as it is), but I missed completing my requirements by getting 1 ‘B’. Officially, I’m overdue …
Leaky roof
So the roof of my house has been leaking for the last couple of months; luckily, it’s only bad if it rains pretty hard. Anyway, I’ve had two contractors out to look at it. The first pointed out that that flashing and about 30% of my roof was installed improperly, and quoted me $700-$1750 to …
Barbecue
I went over to Geek Haus for memorial day, and made pulled pork as my contribution to the gluttony of the event. For those in the know real barbecue is always cooked very slowly over low heat; in this case, I spent 20 hours smoking a pork shoulder (boston butt) using hickory wood for smoke. …
Under a car
I was just under a car. I should elaborate. I just spent the last 4 hours (willingly?) under one of my cars. For reasons that don’t bear explaining, I currently have 3 cars. I’ve been trying to get rid of at least one of them for the last 4 years, but it keeps having mechanical …
Motivation Level: zero.
No motivation today. Nothing, nada, nil… so sad. Lots of work to do, many things I’d like to blog about. Still no motivation at all. I haven’t even managed a meal yet. I wanna go back to sleep.
Setting up a small darkroom
Justin Ouellette from Chromogenic.net has very cool directions for setting up a minimal darkroom (negatives only) in your bathroom. I did this for a while in my old apartment, and it was a great way to save on black and white developing, as well as being a good segue into a full darkroom. I would …