Vista can’t create partition

I had an EXTREMELY annoying error today on my laptop.  I have a number of partitions to seperate Windows, data etc so that I don’t have to backup any data to reinstall Windows (which I frequently do for many reasons) and to help reduce fragmentation etc. Picture: Vista’s disk manager.  Note that Vista home means [...]

Geek my wife

Belinda has been doing awesome things lately.  Yesterday, she found her way to thinkgeek.com and spent around an hour browsing…FOR FUN, and had done a few good geeky things such as trying to use her mouse on my computer from hers, and attempting to use an invisible mouse to point to objects in the room [...]

Alternative for enum in PHP

Since I love C# and I am stuck using PHP for a while, I came up with an alternative to enums in PHP tonight.  Consider the following class: class FormFieldType {  const Text = 1;  const Select = 2;  const Hidden = 3;  const Checkbox = 4;  const RadioButton = 5;  const Submit = 6; [...]

The RX-7 Sold!

Yay I sold the stinking thing!  I only got $3k for it, but that is better than selling it for 5 and the bloke doesn’t pick it up again.  With that we can now pay the obstetrician and buy $1000 worth of silver since it’s about to go nuts.