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Man the Torpedo
So I did it. Yesterday I bought a 2001 Italjet Torpedo 50 2t, and today I got liability insurance and registered with the state, got my plates, got a weather proof cover and it’s awesome. Unfortunately it’s gonna rain tonight so I’ll probably not get to really ride it till tomorrow…
I rode the bike from the lower east side to williamsburg yesterday without tags, a little shady, but now I’m 100 percent legal.
Woohoo. Will post more pics tomorrow.
Buying a Scooter
I was thisclose to buying one of these yesterday from a guy on craigslist. Unfortunately the ItalJet he was buying to replace this one fell through, so he decided to hold on to this one for now. I was all geared up, too!
Maybe next time.
Why Friendster Sucks
Something I’ve been meaning to post for a while:
I’ve had some problems with the whole Friendster thing — I signed up, but I feel like it’s a fad that isn’t going to last very long… here’s something I read at Marc’s Voice calling into question the whole methodology of friendster:
A is my sister. B is me. C is my meth dealer. D is his “debt collector.” My relationship with my sister includes her trusting me not to introduce her to known criminals. Any service that proposes to remove me from deciding which introductions to broker doesn’t get my business.
The Bicycle Thief
Today I’m adjusting to the fact that my bicycle was stolen yesterday. Total bummer. I left it unlocked for about 15 minutes in a client’s stairwell, and when I came back downstairs it was gone. The really sad thing is that it’s probably someone somewhere in the building; it wasn’t like it was on the street or anything.
I walked around the neighborhood yesterday with my eyes open but saw nothing. It’s weird, every single bike I see — and there’s a lot of them — is potentially mine.
Here’s a pic of the bike:
It’s last year’s model. The new ones aren’t nearly as cool.
It was a gift from my dad. 🙁 The stupid thing is that I had my chain with me (the $100 kryptonite lifetime guarantee chain and lock!). Doesn’t do much good in your backpack.
I don’t know, maybe one of these days it’ll turn up on Bedford Ave. In the meantime, it’s not helping my desire for a vespa…
Update: How To Switch
Just found a program called Outlook2Mac that looks like it simplifies all the problems I tried solving transferring from outlook to a mac entourage (as mentioned in the last post). It’s only 10 bucks, and of course requires a pc and mac (still no way to just translate a PST file, alas).
haven’t tried it, but if I run in to this problem again, I will…
How To Switch
Yesterday I helped transfer a client’s MS Outlook data from his PC to Entourage on his new Titanium PowerBook.
How’d I do it?
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There’s a butt-long line
There’s a butt long line at time warner cable… I’m here to upgrade my cable box to a dvr model… So i can record the shows I miss while standing in crazy long lines.
Windows XP Setup
How many times have i sat through this:
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Tales from the Trenches: Rough Day
Man, it’s been a couple rough days on the computer repair front.
Today was some ram installation in the west village, and then an msblast casualty from Boerum Hill, the owner of which I convinced to bring in-store, instead of me traveling to him. I think we’re going to give up on service outside of Williamsburg; it’s just not worth it — too much time to travel, and no direct access to the supplies at the store.
Yesterday I spent about 7 hours on a compaq that had stopped accessing the internet. Damned if it didn’t escape every possible attempt I made at getting it back online, until finally I backed up and made way into a quick restore (using Compaq’s original disks to return the computer to it’s factory-new state) — which still didn’t work!
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When The Lights Go Down In The City…
Where were you when the Blackout of 2003 hit? I suspect it will be a question on everyone’s mind for, oh, let’s say the next week or so. I happened to be working at Mikey’s Hookup when the lights dimmed and our computers shuddered, and then finally gave up. For a good 10 minutes the lights just flickered before fully giving up the ghost, at which point everyone just sort of headed outside to see what was going on…
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Tales from the trenches: RPC exploit / worm!
UPDATED
In case you haven’t heard, the Blaster worm has made some serious headway. We’ve seen dozens of computers in the last few days affected, with a variety of symptoms, from email not being sent out to the common system restarts. Wild stuff…
Weird confluence of bugs (did I just say confluence?) today. Guy drops off his laptop; it persistently, while he’s online with RoadRunner cable, shuts down, alerting him with a message about some RPC service error needing to quit… I plug his computer into the network to run Windows update, and another computer gets the same shutdown message… 15 minutes later we get a call from someone with the SAME problem… God Bless You Microsoft.
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