I’ve wanted to write about this for a while, so here goes… I’m lazy. I don’t like using my mouse very much. I don’t even like using my keyboard very much. In fact, if I could just think and have my computer react, I’d be happy as a clam. Well, that’s not going to happen anytime soon, so I find little ways to optimize my computer time and this utility helps out quite a bit.

A while ago, one of my coworkers told me about eMusic, and I’ve been a subscriber ever since. I’ve found some great music over the past year, so I thought I’d start sharing what I download. I have the (now legacy) 40 download per month account. It’s a great value for only $9.99 a month. This month, I went for comedy. John Heffron: Good Kid, Bad Adult - Heffron won Last Comic Standing a few years ago, and his "

So I’m going on a long vacation next week, and today was my last day of work for a little while. I’ve noticed a common theme among the days that precede a vacation. They’re usually fraught with a flurry of random tasks that all must be completed before the vacation can begin. There are also several trick workarounds and special procedures that need to be scripted or documented so that if this certain server or that random process were to crash, someone other than me would be able to get it back up and running without rousing me from my self induced slumber.

I seem to run into this problem every year. I guess my relationship with my dad is different from the one that most kids had. I didn’t wreak havoc on the house, sneak out late at night or throw big parties behind his back. Conversely, I don’t worship my dad, holding him in such high esteem that it’s as if he’s a deity of some kind, I and don’t have an overbearing urge to validate who I am when I give a gift.