http://blog.phamily.org the blog of paul pham Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:17:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever since I started working at startups my financials have taken a second place in my mind. Here's an example: My auto loan somehow stopped auto debiting from my checking account, they just one day called me and said I was late on my payments. Of course there's plenty of money ... http://blog.phamily.org/?p=314 I half watched Meet Bill last night while working at home, it was a surprisingly good movie. http://blog.phamily.org/?p=313 well 2008 is nearly over and I can't believe how fast the year has gone by. I'm looking forward to 09, things are going to change for sure. http://blog.phamily.org/?p=312 Picked this up on a random visit to Frys in Sunnyvale cheap at $39. Works perfectly too! Here's a link to the product page. It's basically a cordless phone, the base station works with POT lines but also connects to cellular phones using Bluetooth. So now I just get home ... http://blog.phamily.org/?p=311 What a pain it was to reinstall windows! I had a Dell Latitude D410 that was having all kinds of weirdness. It couldn't find any network shares, and the DNS would just fail to lookup random sites. Anyways, I backed up everything and did a clean install from a Dell Windows ... http://blog.phamily.org/?p=310 I finally got WOL (wake-on-lan) working on my new home server! I picked up a Fry's special like a year ago and have been just way too busy to build it. Also just recently there was a new bios update that allowed me to use the RAID card I had ... http://blog.phamily.org/?p=309 Sand Hill Road is currently having a power outage, the hot weather probably has something to do with it... http://blog.phamily.org/?p=308 I guess $100 an hour for 17 hours in Vegas isn't bad... I went to Vegas last weekend for a friends bachelor party. A group of 8 of us went, I actually got there about 2 hours before them and played blackjack until they arrived, won $200. The night was ... http://blog.phamily.org/?p=307 A few weeks ago I was trying to use my Weber Q grill, it wasn't happy... for a long time now only the front half of the rectangular burner would light. When I tried to use it, something was wrong, the grill was lukewarm and the flame was so low ... http://blog.phamily.org/?p=306 I don't know what it was this morning, but it started when I pulled out from the garage, a car zoomed by the garage and scared the shit out of me, the lady driving it just looked at me as I stomped on the brakes only going like 5 mph. Then ... http://blog.phamily.org/?p=305