I hx0r3d my DVR

The DVR first entered my house on December 28, 2002 when I purchased a ReplayTV 5040. I think I've watched less than 15 commercials in the past five years.

I have DirecTV, but the ReplayTV doesn't know how to change the channels on the new D10 receivers they use. In April 2006, when I had a PC in the house, I followed the 87-step process the Internet(s) outline to load new IR codes to change channels on the D10.

My parents purchased their own ReplayTV in 2004, but abandoned it after some problems it in favor of a DVR from their cable company. I took their unit home last September, and after replacing the hard drive it was as good as new EXCEPT it did not have the update to change the channels.

Finally fed up, I decided two days ago to find the magic process on the Internet(s) to update the ReplayTV in my bedroom so it can change the channels on the box (otherwise, it can't record anything unless I've changed the channel on the box beforehand).

Without boring you (further) with the details, it was unbelievably complex. The only PC I have in the house that I could put a hard drive into is my server. My laptop is a Mac, but all the fucking software to do the updates is PC-based.

Solution?

You guessed it fool: mother fucking Virtual PC:



!!!

Fucking ridiculous.

Nerdier than when When I hx0r3d my cell phone to enable bluetooth.

Fuck-ruckers

The dining establishment formerly known as Fuddruckers is the latest recipient of a nasty email:

I visit this Fuddruckers location, on average, at least twice a week (a staff member recognized me and said hello tonight). On almost every visit, I order a Market Toss Salad and get a drink to go, which rings in at almost $11.00

Tonight was the first time I've seen Pradeep, who seemed to be bossing around the man I'd always assumed was the manager. Admittedly it was busy in there. I walked in and there was no line, Pradeep was the only person behind the register. He seemed disinterested to wait on me. I ordered my meal to go, which he rang up as eat in (I noticed because he handed me a regular drink cup). I reminded him it was to go, and did I need to tell the kitchen? He said he would do it and walked back there.

He did not tell the kitchen. When I was buzzed, he was standing around in the kitchen, my salad was served for eat-in and had no garlic bread. I told someone else it was to go. Pradeep came over, and up-ended my salad into a styrofoam to-go container. I asked someone twice for bread (which ended up being stale), utensils, and a bag.

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, please feast your eyes on my not-so-tasty Fuddrucker's Salad:

Disgusting! I have no problem waiting when a restaurant is busy, but serving something like this is totally unacceptable.

If there is a question about the details of my experience, I've included my number below. Please don't call me just to apologize.

It's lettuce and a chicken breast...HOW DO YOU FUCK THAT UP?

Chivalry?

Unless the rules of English changed, that is not the correct sort-order.

Is There a Nobel Prize for Food?

I had a very late dinner/very early breakfast at IHOP with Corey. I could not decide what I wanted to eat, and struggled with the menu for a good 15 minutes. I finally ordered pancakes and eggs, and long after the waiter had put in our order, I spyed table tents across the way.

...?...

We didn't have a table tent.

What was on it, you ask? Pumpkin pancakes.

!!! xoxo !!!

I sulked the entire time we waited for our food, and kept sulking after I'd eaten every bite. I finally asked the waiter for a short stack of pumpkin pancakes, and they were delicious!

My only suggestion (and I emailed this to IHOP.com), is to either (1) whip some cream cheese up with whipped cream to make a cream cheese spread, or (2) just use the cream cheese filling from the crepes. Either way, a light, sweet, cream cheese frosting on their pumpkin pancakes would easily win an entire season of Top Chef.

The Third Coming of Buzz trumps the Second Coming of Christ

Gentiles and Jews alike, Buzz is back:

On Friday, September 21, 2007, Buzzlife Productions and Fur Nightclub will join forces to create a new home for BUZZ, Washington DC’s legendary Friday night event.

We cordially invite you to be a part of history in the making as we enter an exciting new era of Capitol Intensive Clubbing. Our goal is to continue to raise the bar and to set the standard in nightlife experiences. We will be booking the hottest, freshest and most forward-thinking electronic dance music artists. Our belief is that music is only one piece of the puzzle, creating an intense visual experience is nearly as important. We will host nationally acclaimed video-animators, decor installation experts, hand picked dancers and performance artists to create an atmosphere that must be experienced first-hand.

Buzzlife's philosophy is that YOU are the most important part of the party. You are strongly encouraged to express your individuality through fashion, costume and attitude; creatively adding to the visual excitement of what we call "BUZZ."

The lineup includes:

• Moby


• Sander Van Doorn


• Scott Henry

wh00t! Bring on the fizzle and glow sticks, fool!

When Life Gives You a Bag of Burning Dog-shit...

I suppose you can make Dog-shit-ade?

In addition to the two still-born projects I have, I received a third on Wednesday. It's at the two year mark, and in my opinion they've done two weeks worth of work.

I'm incredibly tired. I think I could sleep for a week.

Does Chris Hansen know about this?

Tonight, in the coffee shop on campus, I saw an older lady who appeared to be a cougar. She was working on a black MacBook, and from behind I saw that she was playing Second Life.

...

Is Dateline putting the finishing touches on: To Catch a Second Life Cougar?

Who Dat?

Joey posted this pic of Kimmy and I to her Facebook page, I thought I'd share it with everyone. I have no idea when it was taken (Kim's birthday maybe?), or what we drank that we both ended up with limes.

Been a hectic but interesting few days: I went out to Five on Friday night and saw Peter Bailey, but I'm definitely not up for dancing yet. The doctor took 80ccs of fluid out of my abdomen Friday and another 95ccs on Monday.

Fuck you, iPhone; I know this is your fault!

It appears that Apple changed the sort order in iTunes for version 7.3 and above:

iTunes 7.3: Changes in music sort order

Starting with iTunes version 7.3, the following sort order is implemented:
General ordering

* Letters & Unicode characters (except for digits)
* Digits
* Other

Ignore leading definite and indefinite articles

* "The Beatles" sorts as "Beatles"
* "A Night in Tunisia" sorts as "Night in Tunisia"

Note: In English these are "A ", "An ", and "The " and includes the localized or international equivalents.
Ignore leading symbols and punctuation

* "#41"sorts as "41"
* " ' Til I Collapse " sorts as "Til I Collapse"

Sort digits numerically

The songs "1 foo", "2 foo", "10 foo" will sort as
"1 foo", "2 foo", "10 foo" and not as
"1 foo", "10 foo", "2 foo"
Ignore leading white space when sorting

Any spaces entered at the beginning of the title will be ignored when sorting.
Sort ignoring case

For example with iTunes 7.2 and older versions, the song playlist sorts in the following order:

* .38 Special
* 'Til Tuesday
* "Weird Al" Yankovic
* 4 Non Blondes
* The 5th Dimension
* 311
* Oingo Boingo
* ZZ Top
* つしまみれ

With iTunes 7.3 and newer versions, the song playlist sorts in the following order:

* Oingo Boingo
* 'Til Tuesday
* "Weird Al" Yankovic
* ZZ Top
* 4 Non Blondes
* The 5th Dimension
* .38 Special
* 311
* つしまみれ

Note: If you sort a playlist and sync it to an iPod, the sort order from iTunes will be retained.

If you want to override the default sort rules for a given artist or song, follow these steps:

1. Get Info on a song and click the Sorting tab.
2. Enter the text in the appropriate sorting field. If you want "The Beatles" to sort by "The Beatles" instead of "Beatles" you would enter "The Beatles" in the Sort Artist Field.
3. Click OK.
4. To apply that change to all of the songs by "The Beatles", right-click (or Control-click) the song that you just changed and choose Apply Sort Field > [relevant field] (using the example above, Same Artist).

I'm glad somebody asked me if I wanted to change the fucking sort order. I've only been using iTunes since 2003 -- it's not like I'm used to a certain behavior.

Fucking savages.

My Programz are _The Popular_

I'm taking this "E-Commerce/eBidness/iWasteTime" class, since it's the only 400-level MIS class being offered this Fall. The class is taught using ASP.NET 2.0: I've never programmed in it before, but I've done web programming in PHP, Perl, and ColdFusion, and I've done development in Visual Basic (ASP.NET lets you write the actual code in either VB or C#).

Same difference.

Mason is not all that Microsoft technology friendly, so our professor made us get ASP.NET hosting accounts to publish our homework to. He recommended this site called Somee, which is free.

I setup my account a few weeks ago and published my homework there. The first assignment is due tonight, and this afternoon I got this email:

Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:50:50 -0500
From: Support@somee.com
Subject: Your web site has been deleted!

Your site was deleted by our automated verification system. Reason: CPU overuse.

Somee International
http://somee.com

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Somehow I doubt that my ASP.NET-based wage calculator was the top item on Digg today.