I've figured out about how much it costs me to be lazy. It's approximately $100 per minute. That's how much it cost me for 6 minutes of unabashed laziness when it came to my computer over Memorial Day weekend. It's a lesson that's hard-won, and I'd like to share it …

JoDee and I are making our way through Babylon 5 for the first time. Well, I'm watching it, but JoDee is falling asleep through most of it. But what is really hard to manage is not getting spoilers for the show. Look up an actor on the net, and their …

Tonight in "I do stupid things so you don't have to":

\1) Do NOT try to pry a hard drive platter from a laptop drive.
It will shatter.
2) Hoover vacuum cleaners are powerful enough to suck up screwdrivers.

This has been "I do stupid things so you don't have …

Apparently there is now a WordPress app for Android. I wonder how well it works.

We shall see.

Running Spinrite on my dad's machine. His Ubuntu 12.04 upgrade (from 10.04) went a little pear-shaped, so I was going to see if I could reinstall it on another drive, while at the same time turning his XP machine instance into a VirtualBox image. As luck would have …