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the thoughts and current events in the life and times of Chris Overbeek

December 2007 - Posts

Merry Christmas!
To each person who happens to read my blog (thanks to both of you), I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas. Read More...
USPS is a joke
A while back I posted about my surprisingly positive experience with Comcast's customer service -- today I had the more expected experience of a total lack of 'service' from a customer service representative. I ordered a bunch of gifts from Read More...
Zowie!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071222/bs_nm/goldmansachs_blankfein_dc_1 67.9 million dollar bonus. Now that's a nice payback for a job well done... Read More...
AntiVirus and performance
Recently I switched my home ISP to AT&T from Comcast, and as a result, my free subscription to McAfee products was revoked and I was granted a subscription to Norton/Symantec instead. Generally speaking, I am the kind of user who watches my process Read More...
Interesting article about my favorite human body part...
Get your mind out of the gutter -- I am referring to the brain. It should be your favorite body part, too, since all the other parts are a LOT less fun/interesting/useful without the brain. Check out this little blurb (I came to find it though boing boing Read More...
Congratulations
The family spent the weekend in GR to see and fawn over the newest member of the extended family -- SuperDave and his wife have welcomed their first son into the world. Everyone is healthy and doing well, and the little fella seemed to get along with Read More...
I never knew you could do that!
It seems so obvious now, but in searching around for help with some video editing stuff I am working with tonight, I came across something that made me slap my forehead like John L Smith during a press conference. You can do a binary concatenation of Read More...