Geeking out!

http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com/2010/06/homeopathy.html
This just needs a good list of references and it would be truly fantastic.

Seriously, always get a second (and third fourth and fifth) opinion.

I need more spare time.  I should probably figure out how to better manage blocks of time, because I have a couple of programming and networking projects that I’d like to work on, and I just haven’t been good about prioritizing them.  I’ve tried GTD but I haven’t been terribly successful at regimenting myself.  Anyone have good suggestions for time management?

Just closed my Facebook account.  Mark Zuckerberg obviously disdains the users of his service, and I will not support him.

I just want to get vocal about a few things that are really cheesing me right now.

I got a sms, email, and a letter is apparently on the way, from AT&T yesterday.  It seems that AT&T doesn’t own any cellular infastructure in Dodgeville, where I work.  So any time I use my iPhone in Dodgeville I am using “off-network” data.  The sms/email/letter state that I am using too much data (I’m paying for unlimited data), and that if I continue to use this amount of data my service agreement may be terminated with them.  So… basically they can’t deliver the service I’m paying for.  And they’re going to kick me out.  In 120 days when my situation is “re-evaluated”.  At this point I would be totally ok with that, they’d be doing me a favor.

Item 2 on my “things I hate” list right now is a game publisher called Ubisoft.  Ubisoft will henceforth require an active internet connection to play every single one of their newly published games for the PC, regardless of whether the gameplay would actually require one (all single player games will have this “functionality”).  So if you internet ever goes down, if you are traveling, if your router sneezes, you will be unable to play.  If you are in the middle of a game when your internet hiccups you will get booted from your game.  Ubisoft is now on the list of banned games in my household.  I will be doing what I can to warn people of this disease of a company.

/rant

Well, here we are.  Ten years after Y2K hit, and the human race was nearly wiped out, we have emerged from our holes in the ground to gaze upon this new civilization.  I remember a time when I thought I would work some computer job.  I hoped for a high paying desk job where I didn’t have to talk to customers all day.  These days I just hope I don’t get killed by bandits.  I remember the good life, when I used to eat hamburgers almost every day (my god I would, and have, kill for a hamburger).  Now with all the desolation and strife I’m lucky to eat anything at all.  I’m fortunate the my wife, Lisa, is such a good hunter.  She misses her family, but since there hasn’t been a working phone or post office in 10 years we have no idea what has happened to them.  The winters are the hardest, but we’ve managed to survive.  Cold winters mean that we have to deal with fewer bandits than those in the south.  We’ve set up a homestead again, but I’m worried that we may yet again be forced to move to avoid the Canadians.  Still our spirits are high, my nephew, Andrew, just learned to fire a gun for the first time (they grow up so fast).  It’s shocking, the contrast between our lives.  When I was his age I was watching TV most of the time, he has to learn how to kill.  I can’t help but wonder how things would have been different if civilization hadn’t collapsed…

I’ll be tweeting while we are traveling today. If you don’t use Twitter you can just follow me by taking a look at the Twitter block on the right side of my blogs homepage.

I’d happily take a subscription to arstechnica.

I have some opinions. Not all of them are good. I want to share one of them, well two, at this time. First, never get all your news from one source. Secondly, I think the white house blog is worth keeping an eye on (regardless of your political affiliations).

Mom really would have liked this movie. I of course enjoyed it.

Butter.

I just want to say that Apple’s handling of Google Voice apps is terrible and I hope that Google makes them squirm.