I got my contacts today. In fact, I’m wearing them now. They’re not as clear as I’d like, but the doctor says everything will sharpen up after a little while, but right now they’re very distracting.
Monthly Archives: February 2005
See you later Hollywood Video…
I stopped by the local Hollywood Video today to pick up a few movies for the weekend, but ended up walking out empty handed. Why? Well, because they raised their prices. What’s the percentage of this markup? $0.99 to $3.79. Yikes! Now I know this is more of the norm for video stores, but I’ve been spoiled by 99 cent rentals for a few years at this place. Also, this place was always busy. They had to be making good money.
We own a lot of movies, but we have a rule, we have to rent the movie before we buy it. We’ve been burned too many times buying a movie because we think we’re going to like to find out it royaly stinks. To me, 99 cents made it worth it to find out.
So, now I’ll have to figure how we’re going to accomplish this, because I will not pay almost 4 dollars to rent a movie. Maybe it’s time to finally investigate Netflix.
Oh well, bottom line is Hollywood Video will not get another dime from me.
Hopefully no more wiki spam
My wiki has been the target of spam recently. Yesterday when I went to it, the content of the main page was gone and was replaced by spam links. One of the nice things about wiki’s is was easy to revert to the original page.
I couldn’t figure out how this was happening. I disabled anonymous editing, yet pages were still being modified. I finally did a little research last night and found out that the spam bots were actually creating wiki accounts and then modifying pages under an account. Since my wiki is strictly for my own use(at least for editing), I don’t need users accounts at all. So after a little more research, I found a line that I could add to the configuration file that only allows admins to create user accounts. I’ve instituted that and it does remove the user creation form from everyones view. Now I just hope it works
White Chocolate Mocha… Yum!!!
They just opened a Starbucks a few blocks from my house, so this morning I stopped in there on the way to work. For the record, I am no coffee guru. In fact this is only the third time I’ve ever been in a Starbucks. The first one was in Chicago and I had one of those iced things(I don’t know what it was called), the second time was in McHenry, IL and I had a Cafe Mocha, and then this morning. I wanted to try something I have not had before, so I went with a White Chocolate Mocha, in size Grande. First let me say, Ouch! $4 for a cup a coffee is killer. I can guarantee this will not become habit. With that said, I’d like to say this is one of the best warm drinks I’ve ever had. One might even say, good to the last drop!