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Entries from November 2005

Thanks, Sony

November 29th, 2005 · No Comments

If you accidentally installed the XCP DRM stuff that came with Sony CD’s, and you’re looking for a way to remove it, don’t visit Sony’s XCP uninstall site.
UNINSTALL REQUESTS
November 15th, 2005 – We currently are working on a new tool to uninstall First4Internet XCP software. In the meantime, we have temporarily suspended distribution of [...]

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Tags: Tech

My Twinn Doll

November 26th, 2005 · 10 Comments

If you’re familiar with the “My Twinn Doll,” you know the premise: you pick the features of the doll in accordance with your own baby, and you get a custom doll that looks just like your kid. My wife insisted on getting one for “posterity.”
Would you consider this a success?
(Note: I think the doll we [...]

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Tags: Family · Humor

HD Plight – I need your help

November 26th, 2005 · No Comments

So the plan here is to revolutionize Project Management at my new company.
Yep, you heard it here first.
So the first thing I told the company was that I was going to need a decent portable hard drive, so as to facilitate simpler/quicker/more effective synchronization between my laptop and my desktop…and they did well, I thought.

I [...]

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Tags: Tech · Work

To grandmother’s house we go…

November 25th, 2005 · 1 Comment

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To grandmother’s house we go…, originally uploaded by Turnipville.

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Tags: Moblog

Retarded News Item of the Week

November 24th, 2005 · 4 Comments

You may not believe me, but the following short column was actually published in the San Diego Union-Tribune. There are many reasons that we don’t subscribe to this nonsense (one of which is that the paper itself is far too rough to be used where it’s most appropriate), but this type of article wasn’t one [...]

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Tags: Humor · The Ether