Category Archives: Random

There I was, watching an old episode of Star Trek Enterprise in my office, with my baby happily sleeping in her swing in the living room, when all of a sudden my desk started to shake. Then a picture fell off of a shelf (luckily I caught it). Eek! Earthquake! I ran to the living [...]

I recently had to install Windows 7 using an upgrade edition. At one point I had a legal copy of Windows Vista on the computer, but I had long since switched to Linux and lost the original Windows Vista disk. So what do I do? I qualify for the upgrade edition, but Windows won’t activate [...]

I got an Android phone a while back (a Samsung Intercept). I like it a lot, except it started getting slower and slower and slower. After yelling at my phone profusely and spending an hour or so Googling, I discovered that a process called akmd2 was the culprit. This process is what automatically switches the [...]

My wife and I have been working hard on building up a good supply of food and water. This is partially because we hate going shopping all the time, but mainly because it is good to have extra food in case of an emergency. Last summer we were without clean water for a few days. [...]

In case you hadn’t heard, my first baby is due on Sunday. My wife and I have been trying to come up with a name for our little girl, and have decided on Anna. We are, however, still struggling to come up with a good middle name. We’ve had lots of ideas. For example, Anna [...]