Archive for 2008

DVD Gripes

  • November 9th, 2008
  • Posted in movies

I hate DVDs with short menu music that keeps looping and looping while you get your food ready. How hard is it to make a music loop that lasts a few minutes so it’s not annoyingly repetitive? DVDs that automatically start playing the main title when i’m in the bathroom. FAIL. And why do the [ READ MORE ]

Absentee Voting

I cast my absentee ballot for the 2008 US Presidential election Saturday after waiting in line at the Woodbridge DMV location for four and a half hours. I was expecting a 2-3 hour wait, saw some questionable electioneering in the long lines extending around the building, and was appalled to discover only one of the [ READ MORE ]

Photo Hold

My 500GB FireWire drive i used as immediate storage for my photos went bad. So all photo uploading is on hold until i can get things back together. I’m not sure if the drive actually had bad spots on it or if it was just a corrupt MBR from not being properly ejected. I’ve fixed [ READ MORE ]

On The Rise

  • October 7th, 2008
  • Posted in meta

On The Rise This is the WordPress.com Blog Stats graph showing traffic on miahz.com up to September. I never would have guessed it had been increasing like this. It’s doubled since the beginning of the year. I’m honestly not sure why, because i haven’t been particularly prolific lately[ READ MORE ]

Daily Gripes 2008Oct06

  • October 7th, 2008
  • Posted in life

I started writing this last Friday. Why does it have to be so difficult to transfer Outlook accounts/settings to a new computer? I dropped my Firefox profile folder on my new computer, and picked up right where i left off—history, passwords, windows sizes, and all. Outlook has no built-in import/export function that’s worth anything, and [ READ MORE ]

The Years