Category: tech

01/18/08 09:58 - 28ºF - ID#42943

Setting up new computer...

Somehow in the whole exciting adventure of getting a new computer I somehow lost sight of the fact I'd have to spend all weekend setting it up and tweaking it.

So many things to install...

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Location: Buffalo, NY

01/18/08 10:47 - 27ºF - ID#42936

VERY FUNNY UPS!

So, UPS says I wasn't here to sign for the package this AM when I specifically took off work to be here.

I bet there was a garbage truck on our street at the same time and the driver just said fuck it and went on to the next block.

metalpeter writes at 05:44:12 01/18/08 - Comment #30589: That is to bad, I wish I had pull enough to make that not happen but I don't. I have no power with them I'm just one of the people that processes packages that go UPS at work.

jenks writes at 05:42:36 01/18/08 - Comment #30588: ugh, I HATE when they pull that crap!!
I've had the exact same thing happen.
And I've had them actually come when I'm HOME WAITING FOR THEM, and then they just don't ring the doorbell and leave the sticker that they attempted but no one was home.
I have also put my signature on file with them like 10 times so they can leave a package without a sig so I don't have to take off work to be home (since that's just not an option)- and they still leave the 'no one home to sign' love notes.
Apple is especially bad about insisting on a sig.

jim writes at 05:20:01 01/18/08 - Comment #30585: No they definitely were not there, no sticker and I was there by the front door all morning.

metalpeter writes at 05:15:58 01/18/08 - Comment #30584: First of all was there a thing left on your door? If it was on your door then you know they where there. I my self had never had a problem with them but I don't order much stuff. I can't order stuff to my house because if you leave something on a step that leads to a door and that door is locked and goes to the hall then the package disapears. If your house is secure you can set up so you don't have to sign. I don't know how to do it but you can also have them deliver some place else. A lot of people have things delivered to where they work. That is not all ways an option but it is a good way to not have to take off work. depending on the package sometimes they will drop it off next door but with a high end item they may not do that.

joshua writes at 02:31:41 01/18/08 - Comment #30582: Thats fucking bullshit!

scott writes at 11:48:48 01/18/08 - Comment #30580: Can't be worse than DHL. They sent me an "overnight" part 4 weeks late.

It did arrive in the AM, just 4 weeks after I ordered it. It appears that don't specify which night they ship over for "overnight" shipping.

leetee writes at 11:20:19 01/18/08 - Comment #30579: I hate it when UPS does that. For some reason, they do it more than the other couriers...

jim writes at 11:06:40 01/18/08 - Comment #30578: I can pick it up downtown at UPS tonight after 7pm at least...

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: apple

01/16/08 11:09 - 30ºF - ID#42921

New Hardware

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: lol

01/16/08 10:39 - 30ºF - ID#42920

The Arrangement of Type

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

01/16/08 05:32 - 30ºF - ID#42916

e:strip iPhone icon

Shiny new icon for (e:strip) for iPhones :)

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: apple

01/16/08 03:51 - 30ºF - ID#42915

Afternoon

Well just taking my afternoon tea here.

There's a new icon for estrip that I made and Paul was gracious enough to upload - if you've got an iPhone and you bookmark estrip onto your home screen it looks like this:

And also, I ordered one of these for work:

4gb of RAM, yay!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: apple

01/15/08 10:28 - 29ºF - ID#42891

ZOMG MACWORLD

OK, so today is the day. 90 minutes away from the start of all the announcements. Apple does events like this just a couple times a year and I'm always way too overexcited.

New laptop? New DVR? New LCD's? Movie rentals? iPhone upgrades?

I am waiting with baited breath. Apple is my one consumerist urge, the rest of my life is fairly spartan and paired down, and at least I can comfort myself with the knowledge that the apple stuff I buy is mostly used for work. But still, I know I go overboard.

Happy Apple Day!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

01/12/08 03:10 - 38ºF - ID#42857

Spamalot

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: life

01/11/08 11:50 - 37ºF - ID#42849

In-Laws

OK this weekend we have to drive back down state to visit my in-laws for the third time in like 8 weeks. I am so not in the mood to be in a car for half the weekend.

The holidays should be over, amirite?