eric’s extremeboredom

Those of you reading this via monologue (http://go-mono.org/monologue) have no doubt already noticed that the new look is now online! This matches the new http://www.mono-project.org/ website (which I did not have anything to do with) and brings us the talk bubbles from the Planet websites that everyone is used to. If you are listed on [...]

Last night my mom had the TV on to NBC’s Hurricane relief concert, and I happened to walk itno the room just as Mike Meyers and someone I had never seen before (after searching Technorati I found that this was Kanye West apparently) were talking. Kanye, who didnt take a single breath during his entire [...]

(NOTE: This is a rant. This is nothing more than a rant. This post will not change the world. If you have something to do now, go do it instead of reading on. In summary: Mcafee sucks. Mcafee AntiVirus sucks. Windows sucks. Don’t use it. :) Writing software is always trying to find the balance [...]

Today is my birthday. I registered to vote. I also recieved a letter from the Selective Service System reminding me I had to sign up. Pretty impressive that they timed it to arrive on the day of my birthday.

I can’t believe this, the hoary CDs that I ordered in late April arrived in the mail today. I had given up all hope on these. Would have been really nice to have had these a few months ago when hoary was the new thing, now its almost all about breezy =/. I noticed these [...]

This could also be entitled “Why I hate Microsoft software”: Uh, I guess I’ll restart?

It seems that as of yesterday I can now send/receive text messages as well as recieve voice mail notifications while my phone is on “Extended Network”! Still no 1x data though.. I wonder if e911 location works, that has always worried me. Now if only Verizon didn’t charge so much for messaging…

So there seem to have been quite a few misconceptions about the Glade# code generator, both recently and a few months ago, that I want to clear up. New Feature Before I get to that though, I now have (mostly untested) support for both VB.net and Boo: If you use either of these languages please [...]

I was reading this guy’s blog entry about the linux desktop (it was on osnews or something), and while he does make a few good points, such as how the file manager could be improved, most of the article is just whining about he thought he had installed OSX but ended up with Linux instead. [...]

I finally had it with dying in here during the summer months, and in a fit of rage purchased something to solve the problem once and for all: I ordered the unit online from the Sears website and selected to pick it up at the store near here. The site said that I would receive [...]