How do you spell “LOL”?: On Google Voice Transcriptions

A couple months ago I switched my voicemail to using Google Voice. It was much easier than I expected, mostly because my cellular provider is Sprint, who have a partnership with Google Voice that allows you to port over your real mobile number with very little hassle. (For me, keeping the same phone number...

The Age of Adz

You may have noticed that I finally broke down and started including some ads on my site. I figured after over 10 years of sounding my barbaric YAWP to the World Wide Web, and now with hundreds (or sometimes thousands) of visitors each month, maybe I could finally ask this website to at least pay for...

My Favorite Bookmarklets

Since I spend so much time with the web browser every day, at work and at home, I have become an extension junkie. I just can’t resist all these browser add-ins that make me more efficient—and probably some which don’t increase efficiency, too (e.g. chrome.angrybirds.com). But I am not...

Comment Spam

I need some tips here from the Greater Internet Community, so chime in if you have any suggestions! I’m getting annoyed with comment spam on a couple of the websites I manage: First, on this WordPress blog—I have been using the IntenseDebate WordPress plug-in which offloads some of the anti-spam...

You can’t swim when the pool is empty!

Yesterday I was handed a fun little problem by my cube-neighbor: one of our many Citrix servers was randomly getting the dreaded error event 2019 “The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the pool was empty”… and then, failing to “swim”, the server...

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