Hicks and computers do not mix. I am living proof.

My brain officially aches. I have had the…what, almost 2 weeks? From hell. Naturally, this computer was the cause of it. I woke up on the morning of the 5th to one hell of a mess. I restarted the machine, got tossed into a never-ending boot loop. I swore in all kinds of pretty and … Read more

FSU: (fmeeping) stupid university? Yes, actually, it is, thank you for asking.

The last 4 days have been nothing but a fuck shit stack, with one quick break yesterday that lasted oh, an hour, maybe two? I’ll preface this by stating the obvious. I absolutely despise Fitchburg State University. Nope, not gonna lie. In fact if I still had this perspective legally blind freshman’s email anywhere in … Read more

Petty Thievery, much?

Some tweets from this morning hit my radar almost 19 hours later, and I feel I need to say something publicly. Over the past few months, Christopher Toth has developed and distributed Hope, a third-party application that allows a Windows user using a screen reader to access the popular Pandora service. He charges $10 US … Read more

small note to the record labels, you earn enough money, piss off, right now.

so amazon. has launched this great knew service that allows it’s customer to store their music on their services for playing on multiple devices. I took a look at it, and like the idea, a tad inaccessible, but what you gonna do, right? Well now, amazon’s facing possible legal action because they don’t have the … Read more

the US after action report, and other musings.

Yeah, I’m lazy. Deal with it. I’ve been back on this side of the boarder, for what, almost a month. in list format, because I’m just to goddamn lazy, and expanding thoughts undercafinated is not how I roll, oh, and because I can. I returned from the states march 3, 2011.< relatively in tact, sanity ... Read more

hey, united states? canada's kickin' your ass, again!

Once again, we here in canada proove we have a better handle on this digital thing than the united states. We took the year by storm with 18% growth over the united states impressive 1%. Oh, wait, it gets better. In 2009, our digital growth was 38%, and the united states was… what’s that? only … Read more

people continue to ask why I won't switch to apple? have another reason.

people always ask me, why won’t you buy a mac. My simple answer, I’m happy with what I’ve got. If I want to play in the mac environment I’ll crank it up in a VM. Well, I’ve found another reason. Reading RSS feeds, we see that an apple service provider is suing a customer for … Read more

I've met another pain in my ass, that of the FSU student network and it's help desk

so a couple of days ago, the fitchburg state university student network started having massive issues that were made of utter failure. Packet loss, dropping us on the floor, horrid DNS resolution, etc. etc. etc. We chocked it up to students on this router being bandwidth hogs, and generally a detriment to the ability for … Read more