IT guy, weekend SCCA racer, new Subaru owner, Foursquare SU3, PSU alum, gadget lover, Apple user, all-around regular guy.
By now most of you have probably heard about the deadly accident in the CA desert that killed 8 people. It was an off-road race – and one of the trucks lost control coming off of a jump and rolled into a crowd of people. There are various stories out there of it, CNN has one, Autoblog has another, etc. Now I was going to just let this go and be sorry for the families [...]
Just under a month ago, I installed Windows 7. The next day I noticed a freezing problem. Ok, so it wasn’t so much “freezing” as it was some sort of graphics issue. Initially tried disabling Windows Defender and EFS. I really had no idea what was causing it. And the few threads I found online didn’t seem to have any more of a clue than I. After taking a few minutes to think about it [...]
Just when I thought I got all of my computer problems straightened out… The “combo drive” (CDRW+DVDROM) in my Macbook decides to shit the bed. OK, so it’s not totally dead – but it makes some awful noises and decides to randomly spit out a disc it’s trying to read. Definitely a drive problem. Does the same thing in Windows. I wasn’t even able to play Starcraft that I installed on it. Just ejects my [...]
I don’t really read that often. I mean, I’m lucky if I read one or two books each year (if that!). This year seems to be different. I supposed I’m actually trying to find things that actually interest me. Like what, you say? Well I read one book earlier this year that I heard about through one of the blog sites that I read daily. It’s about cars. The book? Driver by Alexander Roy (on [...]
