New URL and Blog

As evidenced by the banner above, I have a real website now :-) imnotpete.com is where it's at. You'll be redirected there in a few seconds.

Joy

So, today I picked up a movie Ratchet. This guy:



I am inordinately happy about this. I always had Transformers, but just the Hot Wheels-sized ones... this thing is comparatively huge. Will be a great addition to my desk at work (I'll be so popular!). Think it's time to clean up, though... There's a limit to how many awesome things fit on one guy's desk.

In other news: Two months to Fedora 8!

Code Monkey

Disclaimer: This in no way resembles my own job :-)

Careful with your headphones

Just a heads-up to anyone who uses headphones with their PC very much.

This is a picture of the laptop I use 99% of the time:



See how the headphone/microphone ports are right next to a pair of USB ports? With nothing between them?

I was distracted just now while plugging in my headphones. Managed to miss the hole, and stuck the plug in my USB port instead. BAM, computer was immediately hard-shutdown. Not sure what got shorted out, but I would have lost any unsaved work. Luckily, on rebooting everything seems to be working fine.

Now to dig out one of my old beater desktops and see how many "mistakes" like this it takes to do permanent damage :-D

Regularly Scheduled Programming

Now that the Blogathon is over, I'll be moving into a more conventional routine with this blog. I'll start by bringing my "skinning Windows" entries from last night out into one more coherent post.

In the meantime, pledges are still accepted for a few days following the Blogathon. If you'd like to retroactively sponsor me with a donation to Child's Play, I'll leave the banner to your right up for a while.

If you'd like to go back and read my Blogathon entries, click the link below my name.

FINI

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woohoo 7:30 post! almost there

*drools over the big fat 8 on the clock*

Mmmmmmm bed. Wonder if I'll make it to bed or just fall over on the couch. Choices, choices...