Ed Cottrell

  • IM Swarms

    There’s some sort of mass psychology at work, here: I’ll be sitting at home, trying to read a couple more pages for school before crashing for the night, and it starts. I get an IM, and thirty seconds later, another, from a second person. Then, yet another person IMs me, seconds after that. It happens…

  • Ellen DeGeneres

    I don’t get it. I know some people find her hilarious, but I think she has to be the least amusing comic on television. She’s even got her own five-days-a-week talk show. I don’t get it.

  • Doonesbury Gets it Wrong, Again

    Today’s Doonesbury strip gets it wrong, as is pretty usual. The Georgia law does not require anything more of any one group than of another. It simply says that you must show some form of proof that you are who you say you are – that is, an ID card, like a driver’s license –…

  • Windows XP Pro SP2 Hibernation Problems (Update)

    I’ve mentioned before the nasty problem of having “too much” memory, when running a Windows XP laptop. Well, I finally gave up and pulled 512 MB out of mine, at least for the moment. I had resolved to install Linux, but realized there are, indeed, a few programs I still care about but hadn’t found…

  • Budget – Yes!

    I just finished working through my in-school budget – it looks like it’s in pretty good shape. I didn’t try to work it out, until now, because there were just too many unknowns for my first month or so in a new (and more expensive than I am used to) city, especially with book purchases…