There Just Needs To Be An Extra 12 Hours In A Day

Or I just need to quit sleeping…

I have at least a dozen people who all want me to do computer work for them, and unfortunately I don’t have enough free time to do it. I totally wish I could help you all right now, but I have a day job that obviously has to come first. All of you, I’ll get to you eventually, I promise.

Priority #1 for me right now is to get everybody from my previous mailing list software into FeedBurner (there’s a new sign up form on the right of the page). Unfortunately, they don’t have an import function, so I’m forced to manually renter them one-by-one. I’m about two-thirds done. Update: All done — all folks on the list should’ve received a message to confirm they wanted to sign up. You can also use the sign up on the right side of the page.

Priority #2 will come tomorrow night when I take over the Web hosting for Jack Bog. We’re going to move his popular blog to a dedicated server tomorrow, and I want to make sure it goes perfect (and I’ve been planning and setting up for this for a while so it’s also occupied a bunch of my time). Update on 8/18: After the transfer last night, we had some odd ball Perl issues with MT. After a late night, we got them all resolved, and Jack’s site is flying nice and smooth now.

Priority #3 will be to take care of my in-laws computer, which keeps randomly freezing up. It’s not heat related as I let CPU-Burn in run for about eight hours with no issues at all, so I still have some work to do on that. Update: Think I may have this resolved after uninstalling a bunch of unneeded software. But I need to stress it to make sure.

And then Simone, Cheryl, a couple coworkers and a few other folks all need their computers upgraded, fixed, or what not. Just need to find the time to do it all, and actually see my kids (which are far more important than anything on the above list).

And these are all just free-time priorities, not actual work-day priorities, which are a whole other issue entirely.

I just need to quit sleeping … but we’ll try that some other time, so good night.

Video Link Dump

Since I never do video link dumps (</sarcasm>), here’s a bunch of cool videos for your viewing pleasure (all after the jump):

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If You’re Going To Rob A Store…

…there are better (and less painful) disguises than wrapping your head in duct tape (with hilarious photos and video).

Michael Vick Hit With “$63,000,000,000 Billion Dollar” Lawsuit

Michael Vick is accused of some very serious crimes, but I seriously doubt he pledged his allegiance to Al Qaeda and that he’s responsible for stealing dogs, selling them on eBay and then using the proceeds to buy missiles from Iran. Full story.

Mailing List Borked

I have had a Dada Mail-powered mailing here for quite a while. But apparently it stopped sending over a month ago, and I haven’t the slightest idea why other than some ugly Perl error that I really don’t have deal with right now.

Since I’m sick of troubleshooting Perl, I’m going to be moving all the subscribers I currently have (about 200 300 or so) over to FeedBurner’s e-mail blast system (since I’m already using them for my RSS feeds with good luck). It’s not as pretty as the messages I have been sending out, but I just don’t have time to deal with troubleshooting more stuff right now.

So those of you on my mailing list, expect mailings to return soon, just in a different format.

Edit: There were more people on my list than I thought.

Fark Now Has Over Three-Million Threads

Congrats to one of the Internet’s legendary sites. And in typically Fark fashion, the thread is loaded with a bunch of silly images.

Worst Way To Die…

Ever.

A MAN who lived in his own “zoo” of lizards and insects was fatally bitten by a pet black widow spider — then eaten by the other creepy-crawlies.

I guess it’s just the spider bite that really killed him, but to be chewed on by the rest of your “pets” — which included several snakes, termites, lizards, frogs, and spiders — can’t be fun, either.

That Wasn’t Too Bright…

If you’re going to have your computer repaired, make sure you remove the kiddy porn first.

Even weirder? The guy who had the kiddy porn was once an actor on “Law And Order: SVU.”

Why Kids Are Stupid

The Dren was shopping at his local Target and found yet another reason why kids are dumb.

Another Waste Of Money

I wonder how much money the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety wasted to figure out conclusively what the rest of use already knew: fender benders cost more if you have an expensive car.