Category: Drivel

I just filled up my gas tank yesterday, something I don’t have to do very often.  This is the one on my 1984 Kawasaki KZ550 motorcycle.  It looks like after the tuneup I had done a couple weeks ago, I’m getting almost exactly 38 miles per gallon.  That’s mostly city driving.  And my riding style… Continue reading 38 mpg on the Kawasaki

I noticed that my two blog sites (toddbradley.com and broomfieldrestaurantreviews.com) were running WordPress 2.2 and that 2.6 was now available through Fantastico.  So I clicked the button on my web host’s Fantastico control panel to do the upgrade. I thought everything went well, but I noticed all my categories got horked.  There were still categories,… Continue reading don’t upgrade to WordPress 2.6

S&M Barbie is lashed by the public | The Sun |News Personally, I think the new Barbie is hot! My niece-in-law is a marketing genius on Mattel’s Barbie team.  I haven’t heard from her in a while, but I wonder what she thinks of this.

At first I thought they were weird.  But now that I’ve lived with a pile of external drives for a while, and now that the Drobo supports FW800, I decided to get one.  It should arrive next week, and then I’ll consolidate all my external drives down to this thing and never have to worry… Continue reading I’m getting a Drobo

I woke up this morning to the sound of non-stop growling from my stomach.  It’s so bad that I couldn’t sleep through it any more.  The reason?  I haven’t had anything to eat for 36 hours now, in preparation for today’s gastrointestinal exams.  The last thing I ate was a piece of cherry pie, as… Continue reading I feel like I’m slowly starving to death

Wow, I had no idea there is both a VNC client and server built into Mac OS X 10.5.  I had installed separate apps (2 clients and 1 server) I downloaded over a year ago, but after reading these two articles I see I don’t need any special software at all! http://www.macworld.com/article/131094/2007/12/screensharepower.html http://www.dssw.co.uk/blog/2007/05/14/a-vnc-server-is-included-in-mac-os-x-104

I ran across this online ad today: “What If I Could Show You How To Make up to $120 Dollars Per Hour Playing Video Games From Your Home… Would You Be Interested?” That’s from this link: Video Game Tester Jobs – Gamer Testing Ground It sounds like the perfect scam.  Young adults think that software… Continue reading do you have what it takes to be a software tester?

The Mozilla people released Firefox 3.0.  You know, the web browser that blocks all the schmutz. http://www.blakeross.com/2005/07/04/firefox-schmutz I’m downloading it to all my computers as fast as I can.  Already upgraded my work desktop this afternoon, but still need to do my work laptop.  And I just upgraded my Mac mini (which I’m writing this… Continue reading Schmutz Blocker 3.0 is out!

Ever had someone ram a tube down your throat into your stomach?  I’m now scheduled to have just that very thing done.  Here’s the description of the procedure: Esophagogastroduodenoscopy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In medicine (gastroenterology), esophagogastroduodenoscopy is a diagnostic endoscopic procedure that visualises the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract up to the… Continue reading Esophagogastroduodenoscopy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia