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I just discovered that a recent automatic upgrade to WordPress completely wrecked my blog. I don’t expect that caused anyone any major inconvenience, but it was a little embarrassing to have a giant PHP error message as my home page. I think in the end it was a combination of some old plug-ins and my [ READ MORE ]
Beware: some whinging follows. If you don’t care to read the whole story, the moral is Don’t buy from Bad Boy’s Furniture. Sometime near the end of last year we decided to buy a big screen TV. I forget why exactly we chose them. but we ended up buying a 46″ Samsung TV from Bad [ READ MORE ]
I signed up for twitter today. I can’t promise I’ll update it any more often than I update this site, but if you’re interested, I’m “JEllisonPrice“. When you’re a late adopter, you get the dregs of the user name pool[ READ MORE ]
… so I built another workbench. You can never have too many workbenches. This one’s in the garage, so it’s a little less fancy than the previous one, but I can’t count the number of times I’ve been trying to work on something out there and really needed some sort of work surface, so it [ READ MORE ]
Rock Band (warning: Flash) was supposed to be out next week on the 20th but MTV’s now confirmed that the Canadian release date’s been pushed to December 17th. Theory one is that they need to print French instruction manuals/packaging; theory two is that since they can’t make enough to meet demand in the U.S. they’re [ READ MORE ]
I finished “Portal” yesterday and have to echo some of the excellent reviews it’s gotten. Right off the bat, it comes as part of Valve’s “Orange Box” collection which also includes Half Life 2, HL2: Episodes One and Two, and Team Fortress 2 for the price of a single game, so you can’t really complain [ READ MORE ]
I’d never heard of Kijiji until this week when a couple guys at work were talking about how they’d used it to, almost instantaneously, get rid of an old dishwasher and sell a car. Tonight, however, I am amazed at the power of the internet (and Kijiji specifically) to allow me to get rid of [ READ MORE ]
How could I not after watching this? I hurt from trying not to laugh too loudly[ READ MORE ]
Just on a whim today I put the battery back in my old phone – the one that went through the washing machine – and to my surprise it started up and proceeded to start looking for a signal. Apparently it just needed a couple days to dry out. It never found a signal, though [ READ MORE ]
Via Matt, this guy is amazing! The whole video is done in one take, no editing, with just Reggie Watts, his voice, and a looper[ READ MORE ]