Twenty-Six Years of Blog, Mostly Saved
I started blogging in 2000, and I never quite stopped — though there were stretches where I really, really did stop. The blog has lived in WordPress at movingparts.net for all of those twenty-six years, and during that time I’ve managed to make a few long-term-thinking mistakes.
All You Can Eat (up to 4’x8’ at a time) Whiteboards for only $13!
Inspired by LifeHacker's older post about making your own whiteboard for cheap, I bought a 4'x8' sheet of dry erase board from Home Depot for $13. I had them cut it down into 2 3'x4' sections and one 2'x4' section on account of I have a Honda Fit and that's just not gonna hold a 4'x8' section of anything.
On Facebook, Notifications, Filtering, and Hire Me
tl;dr: 1) Nice job on the Notifications dropdown, Facebook devs! 2) I still really miss RSS feeds and Jabber message integration!! 3) You should hire me! I have some ideas on how to make this better! =;P
On Gaming, Highest Quality, Best Price
I am a nerd and love video games. I looked into buying a gaming laptop, but after researching and talking to some friends who know more about this space than I do, I decided to go a different route.
Thoughts on Guild Wars 2 Expansion
As I mentioned previously, I BIG TIME LOVE Guild Wars 2. And now there's an expansion coming and I am really excited about it. But I've seen a lot of complaining from current players that ArenaNet decided to charge $50 for it and also throw the core game in for free for people who don't have it already. I think the thought process there is "well, I spent $50 on the game already, and now I have to spend another $50, so my investment is $100; whereas new players will only have to pay $50 for all that I have now." I think this is a flawed mindset and I dumped this into my Guild's Facebook group post earlier and thought I'd also post it here.
Neato Botvac 80 Is The Best Robot Vacuum Out There (No Really)
I posted this on my Amazon Reviews page too, but I figured it was worth a blog post as well.
Guild Wars 2 AC Dungeon, Path 3, Burrows Pattern, Memorization By Grid
Wherein our fearless GuildWars2-playing blogger attempts to memorize the burrow graveling spawn pattern in AC P3.
I need to blog more again, social media and iPad be darned
I haven't blogged much lately. I'm sure this isn't that big of a deal to anyone but me, based on the complete lack of questions like "hey, you haven't blogged much lately, is everything okay", etc. It's also obvious to me that my friends, who themselves used to be avid bloggers, now don't really do all that much with their blogs anymore either.
You Have To Actually Start To Cancel A Phone Line To Get Good Customer Service?
This is more of a rant than anything else. I despise the "threaten to cancel your phone account to get good customer service" approach to dealing with companies, so I've not tried it before. And this was no idle threat today... I was fully prepared to cancel a phone line to get what I needed. So please don't read this as "hey, this trick worked for me and you should try it too," because it's definitely not. I was prepared to cancel 1 phone line to get what I needed, but Sprint surprised me by doing what I'd been asking them to do for the last month to keep me from canceling. And I'm hesitant to even post this because I am honestly thankful that I'm able to do what I need to do for my family without having to cancel any phone lines and I don't want people to read this as a possible strategy or a way to cheat the system. But I'm more than just a little bit irritated that I had to actually call to cancel a phone line to get the good customer service I felt I deserved.
Changing Background/Wallpaper on OS X With Multiple Spaces and Multiple Monitors
There are a bunch of partial solutions and comments and questions "out there" about how to change the background/wallpaper on OS X so that you have the same background image on all of your desktops/spaces and all of your monitors. The way Apple has implemented this, at least on Lion, is goofy as heck. I've been participating in one of these discussions on this Apple Support Community thread and while there's been a couple of decent hacks, I've not really liked any of them so far.