Way Too Much Information About Randy Peterman

I finished installing the sound dampening accessories on our new dishwasher tonight. I had waited on the off chance of leaks from the new installation. No leaks meant silencers were to be installed. This washer is quiet now. The air gap which prevents backflow contamination is now louder when it’s draining than the washer is [...]

I’ve just crossed the 10,000 picture threshold on my Canon S3IS.  I’ve used it for personal photography, portrait photography and for product photography.  I have taken many great pictures with it (some of which can be found here) and I still love it.  It is definitely a consumer level camera compared to some of the [...]

No matter how you feel about digital rights management, copyright issues or peer-to-peer networks MediaDefender, a ‘company’ out of California runs a shady business helping companies ‘preserve’ their data on peer-to-peer networks.  MediaDefender took down Revision3’s servers over the long weekend because of various problems - but read this article and judge for yourself - [...]

I have spent far too much time on ‘fixing’ a bug that only happens in Internet Explorer (AKA Internet Exploder).  Here’s a run-down on the problem:
1) Use math to figure out where something should show up on the screen
2) Test in Firefox - works!
3) Test in IE7 - Fail!
4) Remove rational math that appears to [...]

I have tried two days in a row now to download the Windows Mobile 5 or 6 SDK.  Tried.  I have succeeded to actually download files, larger files that take some time to download.  Except that when I download the large files and try to execute the installers it warns me.  It warns me to [...]