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Friday night I took in a show at Bottom of the Hill to see Evan Dando of the Lemonheads.
It opened up with Cobra Verde. At frist, all my attention was focused on the lead singer John Petkovic. It’s as if he was channeling Mick Jagger for his energy and stage presence. […]

The FTC just launched the Do Not Call registry. Supposedly, telemarketers are enforced to remove phone numbers from their calling list if they are registered. If they fail to comply then they can be fined $11,000 for each call. There seem to be few gray area’s in which telemarketers can be waived […]

Okay, the security changes didn’t take as I was expecting. The last 10% is always the most tedious. It requires me to go though the whole code base and migrate anything that is using the old deprecated APIs to the new ones.
Hopefully, Roni Size & Reprazent - New forms will help today…

Just dropped Radiohead’s new album, Hail to the Thief, into my CD tray to help me hack out the security updates for the next release of VSS. I’ve listened to it a couple of times in my car already and really like what I’ve heard so far…

The government has just granted Netflix with a patent on their DVD rental service. This should give them the ammunition to charge their competition right out of the market space, and their company into a nice little monopoly.

The parts guy at Ron Price wasn’t aware that I was coming down for the wheels, even though I called there an hour earlier. It’s just a communication problem, which is okay. It only took them 25 minutes to mount the tires and get me on my way.
I have to say […]

Well I called Subaru Roadside Assistance and told the about the incident. They said they would send someone right over to get the car and bring it down to Ron Price Subaru, who has replacement wheels.
Well when the tow truck showed up, the guys looked at my car and laughed. “Man, you […]

Well after being stuck on hold for 20 minutes, I decided to take Nicole’s car down to the Richmond station to report the incident. It’s very disappointing how little they care. I know they have much worse cases to be working on, but they weren’t. They was 4 officers sitting around reading […]

I still on hold with the SF Police.
The first lady I spoke with on the phone informed me, “I’m sorry, we won’t send officers out to file a report of this type. It would be best if I drove down to the Richmond station.”
That is when I calmly asked her, […]

Well it’s a good thing I decided to move Nicole’s car this morning to a spot which didn’t require a parking permit. On my way back to the my Subaru I noticed two brown boxes or something under the passenger side. On my way over to remove them I noticed the real problem. […]