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Cat hunting season
What’s Xena looking at?
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Death from above
When you work with teevee weather people, you’re used to thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings and flash flood warnings… but this morning, live on the air, our weatherman had a new one to deal with:
…a virus warning!
As always when these things happen unannounced, there’s a lot of talk about improving the warning system… like, oh, say, NOT HAVING IT POP UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN ON THE AIR.
I wonder how many folks are still trying to debug their HDTVs. 😆
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A little cuatro gato action for you
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In event of emergency, install backup copy
Let it be known that if anything should happen to me, there’s an easily installed backup already in place, and it can do a lot of what I do. … Read more
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I am the eye in the sky
One of the things I do occasionally at work is point the tower camera. Basically, as you can guess from the name, it’s a camera, right? On a tower. Hence, tower camera. I got a shot with it last week that I think I was the only person who liked it. … Read more
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Breakdown on the shoreline
A little over a year ago, my Avid decided to kill its power supply with fire. As if to show computer solidarity, my primary desktop PC, a Dell Dimension 8400 that’s proven to be the most reliable PC I’ve ever had, gave up the ghost a little over a week ago. After doing a bit of research into similar issues with the same model, cracking open the case and having a look, the problem seems to be that the CPU is fried. Well, not just fried, really – it’s pretty much cajun. Its towering heat sink ceased doing its job at some point, and that machine is toast. … Read more
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Scenes from this morning
Believe it or not, little E actually requested this good stuff for breakfast.
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So, about all this lightning and thunder…
…basically, you can’t sit here until you promise the storm won’t be bad.… Read more
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Live coverage of Tabbycon 2011
Someone booked a mostly-stripey-cat convention at my place and didn’t bother to tell me.
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Oh, it’s ladies’ night…
…the birdwatching’s right, oh what a night. … Read more