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Monthly Archives September 2003

Wake me when we start revolutionizing urban transport

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled all 6000 Segway
scooters sold because it has a bad habit of falling over when the
batteries get too low. (Minor engineering detail, oops.)

Posted 26 September 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (6) °

Flat tire

Driving into work this morning I took a shortcut I take every morning (for locals: Corkstown Road from Moodie Road to March Road, instead of the 417). About halfway along the road is a level crossing
which isn’t very level; you can usually take most of Corkstown at 120-130 but you want to slow down to [...]

Posted 26 September 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (10) °

Internet addiction quiz thingy

Are you Addicted to the Internet?
79%

Hardcore Junkie (61% -
80%)While you do get a bit of sleep every night and sometimes
leave the house, you spend as much time as you can online. You usually
have a browser, chat clients, server consoles, and your email on auto
check open at all times. Phone? What’s that? You plan your [...]

Posted 24 September 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (7) °

Internet radio

Now that I’m alone at work, I’m listening to a lot more music. I’ve got a bunch of my CDs ripped to my hard drive, but that’s not always what I want at work, so I often turn to Internet radio.

Unfortunately, we don’t have a huge pipe at work. A 56 kbps stream works great; [...]

Posted 19 September 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (5) °

I needs the shoes.

I want to buy a new pair of Chucks, but I can’t decide which color to buy.
Candice has decided that she wants a pair of light blue low-tops, and since we can’t find them locally she’s going to buy them on the intarweb. I figure I might as well buy myself another pair too, [...]

Posted 14 September 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (13) °

New mouse!

Stopped into Future Shop the other day to buy a boring, entry-level
optical mouse, since I’m sick of all the ball-cleaning (HLAGHALHGL)
and want to join the 20th century with a wheelmouse. For some reason
no-one including the salesperson could understand, the
MS Intellimouse Explorer Optical
was marked down to $30 (regular $70), so I picked one up. Wow,
neato! Extra [...]

Posted 14 September 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments Off °

Not laid off.

I still have a job. This is good news, but I’m now the Lone Sysadmin,
so I’m still very much in “WTF?!” mode. I’ll post more when everyone
involved has heard everything from the source here, because I don’t
want anyone getting news from my journal.

Posted 10 September 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments Off °

It’s quarter-end, and work-related uncertainty is rising fast. You may
not hear much from me until it stabilizes in one direction or another
later this week, because I will be dropping into maintenance mode where
I just sort of do things that are absolutely necessary.

Wednesday is probably stabilization day.

Posted 07 September 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments Off °