Hard Drive Crash July 18, 2010
I had a perfect backup system for my server, everything mirrored on my local machine, so last week, when the C: drive on my server crashed I thought i would have a simple task. What a laugh, my sites were scattered all over 4 hard drives and no proper versioning. I now have pages created 10 years ago on the BikiniBreak.com website.

Now that the horse is out of the barn, I am using the built in backup features of my server to create a backup every day. I apologize to all who are annoyed by my stupidity. It won't get better.

Paris & Nikki Hilton June 13,  2010
As many of you know, i have been a huge fan of Paris for many years now. So when her sister Nikki was scheduled to appear at PURE Nightclub last night, i hoped that both sisters would be there.

When i arrived at PURE, i first went up to the terrace, the cool weather made dancing there a pleasure. Then i made my way to the front of the main dance floor and looked into Nikki's booth. Sure enough, there was Paris, looking radiant, healthy, and more beautiful than ever. While many girls outgrow the beauty of youth, Paris, now 29, is proving herself to have that true beauty that lasts forever.

I have danced in front of (not really with) Paris on a few previous occasions, but i was nonetheless surprised that she recognized me and extended her hand for me to touch.

Later Nikki also extended her hand for me. Both Hilton sisters in one night. I hate to sound like a star struck groupie, but that's probably what i am.

Troubleshooting May 28, 2010
Problem: Analog DVR loses sound during timer recording.
Path:
1. Scan tape to spot where sound stops. ...At sound drop point, the "MUTE" icon is displayed. This is the "mute" of the DIGISTREAM digital tuner.
1.1 Slice off top of MUTE button to prevent accidental muting during recording.
1.1.1 FAIL over the next few weeks, problem continues intermittently.
2. Put tuner live on screen, verify the mute icon is the same using tuner remote.
2.1 Try every other remote in room. Able to achieve MUTE using POWER button on PELONIS pedestal fan. Advise users to exercise care with fan remote if they have a recording scheduled.

This was a very non-obvious problem. Sadly there was no "b" device code for either the fan or the tuner. So we can expect the problem to happen again due to human error.

Dumbest Commercials May 21, 2010
A current Lincoln automobile commercial features the song "Ground Control to Major Tom." Absolutely great song, just a minor problem, at the end of the song, Tom dies due to a defective vehicle.

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It's already The end of February, and I am finally putting hand to keyboard in the furtherance of my drivel.

This photo of the very lovely and talented Jamie Preston is here to mark the closing of the hottest little show on the strip, the Las Vegas Pussycat Dolls. The Last Show will be February 27, 2010. As of today, there are 5 more shows.

For some reason i have become addicted to being a commentard at The Register. I have already been getting thumbs down for some of my posts, so at least i know they are being read.

The two forums in which i am most downvoted are Beer and Physics. As to beer, its every man to his own opinion. As to physics, there's a lot of very good physicists who think i am an idiot. Einstein said when they start deriding your ideas, you know you are on to something.

I am pasting my Higgs Boson post from The Register:
THE HIGGS FIELD...
...pervades the universe, and is more or less just a way of saying spacetime.
CERN, talks about Higgs Here.
At the Big Bang, there was not enough room for even photons to exist in the free state.
"[Higgs, et al] suggested that all particles had no mass just after the Big Bang. As the Universe cooled and the temperature fell below a critical value, an invisible force field called the ‘Higgs field’ was formed"
At the critical point, some photons escaped, and I postulate that photons created timespace.
Timespace is moving in every direction at once at C, the so called speed of light. Photons merely attach themselves to time, much like a rider on a streetcar. This is why we say that photons do not experience time. (And why time slows as you move through space.)
OK... if you are with me so far, let's jump back a bit, there is nothing in the Universe except photons. In the Big Firecracker, all the photons in the universe existed in what i call the "Packed" state, but immediately began to attempt to expand into normal photons. As the universe expanded, there was more freedom of movement, and the photons were able to interact with each other in patterns which were persistant. EVERYTHING is built from these dancing photons. In future lines of research, we should be able to determine these patterns. We might find, for example, that the difference between an up quark and a down quark is merely the polarization of one of it's constituant electrons.
But wait, there's more! Let's go back to our single photon, it attaches to time space and moves at C. But now let's consider a proton, it has many many photons, each attempting to attach to timespace, but unable to move with it because it is bound to all the other photons in its "matter dance." So instead, timespace flows into it.
So a very tiny portion of timespace is now attempting to attach to our proton and is slowed by it. Now scale this up a bit to the size of your hand. Now sufficient timespace is being attracted to be discernable. Move your hand to the left, and a portion of timespace moves left with it, wave it back and forth, and you can feel timespace resisting the changes. Now scale this up to planet Earth, and the amount of timespace flowing into to it becomes so great that your hand, along with the rest of your body, in attempting to attach to timespace is dragged toward the center.
Ordinary photons passing near the edge of your fingernail appear to be bent because the matter in your fingernail is warping spacetime. Go ahead, read this text across the edge of a fingernail, pencil, or whatever matter is at hand, look closely at the edge, and you will see this for yourself!