Archive for September, 2006

Sep 16 2006

Dallas

Published under Travel

I just came back from a week in Dallas. It wasn’t too hot or humid out there, which was nice because the previous week was in the 100s. I stayed at the Hilton Anatole, which is a nice hotel for conventions, but not so nice for business travelers. During my stay, there was a […]

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Sep 11 2006

Bin Toolkit: Environment

Published under Tech

I use two different methods for environment. One is for commandline, the other for gui.
For the commandline environment, I have four scripts that do the work.

shell.bat - this is the main script you run, which calls env.bat
env.bat - this is where you define dir paths you want to include, and it calls setfile.bat with your […]

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Sep 10 2006

Bin Toolkit: Introduction

Published under Tech

My binary toolkit was built because I use many windows machines, and they never had the same programs available. The toolkit would contain programs ready to run, so I wouldnt have to install them on each computer. I would simply copy the toolkit over and have my whole environment ready to go. And if I […]

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Sep 08 2006

Zapps Potato Chips Review

Published under Lifehack

I was recently introduced to Zapps potato chips by Steve. He told me that their jalapeno chips are awesome, and since I’m addicted to jalapeno chips, I had to get some. I ended up buying a box of 16 bags; a mix of jalapeno, original, and bbq.

When the package arrived, six out of the sixteen […]

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Sep 05 2006

USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter Review

Published under Tech

I’ve been wanting a USB adapter that could make any SATA, PATA, or ATAPI device available to my computer without any enclosure. This type of device is handy because you dont need to open up the computer. You wouldn’t even need to reboot the machine because the device would be considered removable. But up until […]

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Sep 02 2006

How to Stop Receiving Credit Card Offers

Published under Lifehack

I finally got tired of getting credit card offers, so I looked into stopping them. According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) of 1970 as amended in 1996, the four major credit bureaus have the right to sell your information to companies that want to offer you a credit card. Fortunately, the amendment also […]

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