U-Haul (via bike)
by jpreardon on February 23, 2008
Moving sucks. You have to find a bunch of boxes, throw all of your possessions in said boxes, rent a crappy truck, bribe your friends with beer (still cheap labor), put the cat somewhere for a couple hours– the list (…)
Amazon S3 Outage
by jpreardon on February 15, 2008
Amazon’s S3 Service went dark for a time today. This, of course, effectively shuttered the businesses (or parts thereof) that rely on S3 for online storage. It seems that things are returning to normal, but some customers are upset–and rightfully (…)
OSX 10.5.2 and Weird Birthdays in iCal
by jpreardon on February 13, 2008
I upgraded my Mac Book to 10.5.2 today. Everything went swimmingly, but I noticed that everyone I know had suddenly moved their birthday to Wednesday the 13th at 15:00 EST–according to my calendar anyway. My fix for this was to (…)