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Repetitive Strain or Stress Injury. It's what happens when people play Diablo.

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... or software contracting in general.

I really hate the keyboard on the Edge and on my MBP. I do not approve of this change.

Yes. I do. I really do. To a ridiculous degree.

I do it all the goddamned time on Android. It's not built in, but it's ridiculously simple to find SMB clients.

I'd love to see the eldritch, non-Euclidean pixel geometries Apple would have to use to make 1280x720 fit a 4:3 aspect ratio.

WM6 was much more file and document centric in a way that I found helpful. Seemingly no major mobile OS has really stayed on that path; everything is apps and widgets now.

I don't shave every day, which certainly helps with that figure.

I picked up some products from "The Art of Shaving" a couple weeks ago. I'm trying out different shaving creams and soaps right now, just to see if I can find something that works better. Supposedly, the one $22 jar of shaving cream I bought will last 8 to 10 months, versus going though a $7...

I honestly think WM7 was completely the wrong direction. I was legitimately happy with my WM6.5 device for the span of its life. I was able to use it to do work. The feature set of WM7 removed a lot of the tools I was actually using; WM7 is much more like an entertainment device than a tool. I...

A better question is, why isn't that stuff encrypted by default?

Sony has Spider-Man and characters related to Spider-Man. Fox has X-men and characters related to the X-men. Fox also has rights to the Fantastic Four and related characters, which explains why the aliens in the Avengers are Chitauri and not Skrulls. This also means no Dr. Doom, Galactus or...

Insanely useful thing: Restore dozens, possibly hundreds of Windows settings to their default values. All in one shot if need be.

They do eventually lose their stickiness, but yes, you can mount things vertically, including smartphones and hard drives. I guess they have to be washed every so often to maintain their stickiness. After I slapped one on the dirty exterior of my car, I found that it didn't hold as well.

Not so much firing up as "stopped dead in their tracks." Windows on ARM doesn't seem that interesting to me. It's feature incomplete compared to real Windows, and just the fact that I now think of it as "real Windows" is problem enough. It's not going to be able to participate in a domain and...

What is it about me that makes you think I would ever ride in a 4x4 on a rough dirt road? Please. I live in one of the states that WON the Civil War.

I was showing it off to my coworkers. We've determined that while it will stick beautifully to the very textured wallpaper in our office, it does NOT stick to the dashboard of either my boss's or her son's Audi. Wood? Yup. Plaster? Yup. Glass? Yup. Leather? Yup. Ford dashboard? Yup. Honda...

A couple months ago, I saw a news post somewhere or other that introduced me to the Grippy Pad. It's a little mat of just-sticky-enough stuff that you can more or less slap on anything and will more or less hold anything that's placed on it. It's meant to do things like hold cell phones and...

As I understand it, Silverlight is basically a dead technology at Microsoft now. Microsoft is awesome at communicating its new tech to devs, but boy does it suck the way they roll things out and just drop them.

As I understand it, Apple negotiates deals that disallow customization away from the Apple standard.

Costumed super-heroes have been part of our culture for 80 years. We've had comic books, radio dramas, movie shorts and TV shows about them. Some are so thoroughly ingrained in our culture that most people can name secondary or even tertiary characters in a hero's supporting cast (Jimmy Olsen...

Our largest single carrier (and also our third largest carrier) don't support GSM. And our largest carrier also customizes firmware on all the feature phones it sells to provide a consistent interface at expense of features that might otherwise be available to those phones. The US Cell Phone...

Plenty of MDs and PhDs put their names on woo-woo fad diets. The interesting thing here is that it was published by ORA, which normally publishes highly regarded books on IT and software engineering topics.

I got my copy of Fitness for Geeks today. I should have some kind of review in a couple days.

How do you attach the P4 power connector to one of those? How often do they die from having crappy external transformers?

I think it's a case where still waters run deep. There's a level of un-ironic enjoyment of something that really is innocent and lacking in pretense, combined with the specific irony of adult fandom; or the post-ironic and almost academic discussions about the moral philosophy of Ponies and...

Today I was at Microcenter with plans to buy a few Ivy Bridge CPUs. Microcenter will only sell a person one CPU at a time. They claim they even track it across locations. There is a one per month limit on CPU purchases. I've never run into that before. Fortunately, I had someone with me at the...

I've seen the Avengers five times now. I've seen the IMAX 3D presentation twice, regular 3D once and the normal version twice. I continue to feel that 3D doesn't add enough to the movie to be worthwhile, especially since it's at the expense of better color contrast. The non-3D presentation is a...

Actually, I know that because she was talking about it online yesterday. She said it was AWESOME. It was pretty funny because she's seen all the Marvel movies more than once but doesn't know anything about the comics. So the whole way back to Indiana we had a big long conversation about the...

The gesture of My Little Pony solidarity is called a brohoof. A brohoof is basically just a fist bump, but of course ponies don't have fists, they have hooves. The brohoof has an emoticon. It looks like this: /)(\ My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fans have generally adopted the term "Brony"...

She's fine. We had a nice time.

I have individual customers who might very well send me 50 or 60 messages a day, all one sentence long at most and devoid of definite nouns so that I have even the least idea what they're writing about. Given those habits I guess I could see SOMEONE doing that. Someone I would wish a shameful...

At one time there was an L, an SL and an S. They were all entry level Thinkpads. I think the SL was made with sustainable materials or green something-or-other.

Someone who is typing 1000 e-mails a day on a phone is definitely using the wrong tool for the job regardless of the phone they've chosen.

Well since I *have* seen the Avengers, I can safely say that it's at least been a couple years since I've seen a movie I've enjoyed so much. The movie has all the Marvel movie cast in it, most especially Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson) in it, and it was...

Well since I *have* seen the Avengers, I can safely say that it's at least been a couple years since I've seen a movie I've enjoyed so much. The movie has all the Marvel movie cast in it, most especially Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson) in it, and it was...

RIM announced its new products today. I doubt anyone cares. I don't know anyone still using a BB. They can go sit in the Corner of Irrelevance next to Nokia. Apparently they're really proud of their new video camera capabilities, which would probably have been awesome and interesting in about 2008.

Stripper tonight. Avengers tomorrow. And probably also stripper again. I suspect it will be a memorable day or so.

I totes meant their FAH points production. TOTES. The chrome makes it go faster you know. It would be even fasterer if it had a cherry-red PCB and a little pair of Truck Nutz(TM).

Everybody's dog is their great pal. My community turned a disused baseball field by my apartment into a dog park. I love going over there to say hi to all the dogs. Sometimes I bring them treats, and I keep a ball in my coat pocket. My apartment complex doesn't allow dogs but at least I can go...

I suspect that people who are buying $1000 chrome-plated video cards are really looking to make up for their shortcomings in other areas.

It's a bullshit thing. These systems are going to sit on manager-types' desks. They get higher-spec machines for more-or-less no reason at all. They aren't concern with their power bill, at least not that they've told me.

I installed the nightly tester tools and told it to never check plugin compatibility again. That solved all my issues with outdated plugins. xmarks works everywhere, though I do have two different accounts so that I can switch between a more employer-friendly set than I would otherwise use.

When I was looking at Verizon's phone offerings a couple weeks ago, I was actually surprised by how few Samsung options were available compared to some other handset manufacturers. Verizon is all about the Motorola product, basically.

I have understand the whining about version number inflation and how that plays hell with corporate common operating environments. Of course, that's something Chrome does too. I will say that I'm quite happy that both Firefox and Flash have moved to silent updaters. That's incredibly useful.

"We spent millions on a heat sink fabrication process and cosmetic improvements, so we're going to cheap out and use a $.75 fan that end users can neither replace nor service."

I'll take the top three things off your hands.

It's my experience when dealing with server-anything that you do what the specs say you do. You buy the RAM they want. You use the rails they tell you and you don't guess as to the acceptable dimensions for boards in the chassis.

It looks to me like the Asus board is too long. Even if you can somehow wedge it in there, something tells me you'd be better off with something you wouldn't need the Jaws of Life to get in or out of the chassis.