Joining the 21st Century
/I'm sitting at my parents' new house, waiting for their DSL installer. I've only been pestering them to get broadband internet for most of the last decade, and their new house is in range of DSL service from WCTA.
Messaging for a Cure
/You know that stupid chain letter that says Bill Gates will give money to each person you e-mail? Well it's a lie. But this is the truth:
Microsoft is donating money to charity for your instant messages as part of their I'M initiative. Put the tag for your charity of choice in your nickname field, and Microsoft will donate money to that charity for each of your instant messages. You need to be on Windows Live Messenger 8.1 to do this, but it's an easy (and free!) to way to help out a worthy charity, and they have several to choose from.
The badge in the upper right corner of this blog will take you there, as well as tell you who I'm currently donating to.
Rerserved
/I think someone forgot to proof-read the new signs that they installed in the parking lot outside our building yesterday:
Daylight Bug Time
/The patches I applied to my various systems seem to have all worked for now. The only Daylight Savings Time bug I've seen has been with NetBackup 6.0MP4. For some reason, I had some backups run about 7 times last night, over and over and over again. Fortunately they were differential backups, so they were very small and fast, and didn't use a lot of tape. Apparently I'm not alone, and since we all experienced this for the first time on the same day, we're guessings it's related to the time change.
A worthy cause
/My friend Missy is running in the Valley of Gold Half Marathon, an upcoming fundraising race for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Besides those two diseases, they also raise money to fight Multiple Myeloma, the blood cancer my dad was diagnosed with a year ago. If you have 5 bucks you wouldn't miss, drop a bit in her coffers, as it's going to a good cause.
