Author: spierzchala

Got a screenshot of this before it goes away.

I think this qualifies as a classic Craigslist purchase.
Technorati Tags: Craigslist, phallus, bedroom, classifieds, wtf

The Head Lemur has posted a car for sale on his site. [here]

I can hear the soundtrack to the early 70’s crank up on the 8-track machine in this pre-shortage gas inhaler.

Technorati Tags: 71 Mercury Cougar XR7, Big Iron

This story would be funny, if it didn’t happened to be my youngest son’s birthday.

Technorati Tags: Birthdays, anti-christ-D-Day

Ok, looks like the GrabPERF server was unreachable from 00:36 GMT until 01:24 GMT (20:36 EST – 21:24 EST).

This is very embarassing, as I am the one who is usually calling out folks for outages.

I will be checking with my hosting team to see what the root cause was.

Excuse me while I decide what to do about the teeth marks in my butt.

UPDATE: Just heard from my hosting provider that there was a planned outage last night. Sorry folks.

Technorati Tags: GrabPERF

With some help from the IE7 team, I got IE7 installed. Turns out that there is a conflict between Microsoft (IE7 Beta2) and Google (Desktop Version 2). The Web history indexing performed by Google Desktop somehow conflicts with the way that IE7 Beta 2 handles Web history.

Now that it’s installed I want to try it out. But so far, nothing about it rocks my world. I am sure that the IE7 team could give me an amazing tour, but it isn’t a workspace for me. Firefox is more than “just” a browser. I work in Firefox. And IE7 doesn’t feel like a workspace platform.

I will continue to try it out for a couple of weeks. Maybe I will find the killer app for it.

Technorati Tags: IE7, IE7 Beta2

Merlin Mann has a What’s your favorite minimalist wallet? thread happening over on 43 Folders. [here]

I tried the Jimi. Too small.

This one is perfect.

It’s a business card case I bought at the Dell company store on a business trip 5 years ago. I have used it ever since. Holds more than a Jimi, but those are 3 X 5 index cards next to wallet, to give you some sense of scale.

I would never go back to a real wallet, like my father carried.

Dell could score some serious bonus points (especially after the fiasco with ZenWife’s computer) with me by sending me a bunch of these to distribute to friends and family.

Technorati Tags: jimi, minimalist wallet, wallet, 43Folders, Dell, Life Hacks, life hacks

Since it was launched yesterday, Sphere has been added to the GrabPERF system.

Standard two-word and one-word search performance graphs are available.

Technorati Tags: Sphere, blog search, search, GrabPERF, Web Performance

I installed IE7 Beta 2 tonight. It lasted 15 minutes.
What ended its stay? Opening a new tab crashed the application.
Let me know when: It. Just. Works.
There is likely some secret squirrel hack that fixes this. I don’t want to hear it. An application at this level of pre-release development should not encounter a bug as simple as this.
Technorati Tags: IE7, Internet Explorer 7, bugs

I have been using the Jimi Wallet for about a week, and I have retired it for now.

I can’t operate with just five cards. I have too much happening in my life. I know that this violates all of the GTD principles, but I already have it narrowed down to a folding leather business card holder. And for my life, it holds what I need.

Technorati Tags: GTD, Jimi, Jimi Wallet