Had a great Christmas.. my sister came in from Los Angeles and my mom flew up from Orlando.

Here's what I got..

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WTF is up with Sourceforge? I just introduced a Windows user to Gaim yesterday, and its a good thing, too, b/c SF is down for maintenance.

I was on the way to New York City this afternoon when the massive power outage hit. New Yorkers never fail to amaze me. They gave an exemplary performance today.

One line summary:

"The two things the first Matrix were not missing were a rave scene and a sex scene."

I bought a 14 hour TiVo off EBay back in February. It needed a new remote, power cord, and IR transmitter. Once those arrived, I powered it up and tried to run a system reset. Well, it hung for three days on something that normally takes about an hour. I bought a new 120GB Maxtor drive for $100 a few weeks later. Finally, a few weeks after that, I sat down with a friend while we restored an image that we downloaded to the new disk. The docs unfortunately missed a command to recognize the expa

Hope everyone is having a nice holiday season. I'm staring down the barrel of the 2nd snow storm to hit the Philadelphia area already. Right now, they're saying 5 to 8 inches of snow by tomorrow night's rush hour. Great.

But anyway, I recall reading a study someone did regarding moderation, and I'm beginning to think they were right. Once a comment gets modded up it seems to accelerate. Perhaps the folks who browse at 3 really do "focus on promoting".