http://courtneymalone.com If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. Sun, 11 May 2008 06:04:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dumped some photos into the gallery Update 3/5 1:45pm - Apparently Denton county had a number of issues with delegate counts, I just got off the phone with our Chair, Gary, who said that our precinct was actually an exception in that we got nearly the right number of allotted ... http://courtneymalone.com/2008/03/04/texas-primary-day-semi-live-blog/ Short post - Went to the Collin county Precinct Captain training for the Obama campaign tonight. Organizers were expecting ~200 people, but more than 450 showed up... and this is in a largely Republican county (indeed a number of people raised their hands when asked if there were any Republicans ... http://courtneymalone.com/2008/02/17/yes-we-can/ The horrorI was watching Law & Order: Special Victims Unit the other day when a giant ad popped up for The Bourne Ultimatum. This thing takes up a third of the screen and they actually did it twice in the same episode! Is this the networks' new advertising strategy? I'm ... http://courtneymalone.com/2007/12/08/is-this-their-big-plan/ At the local OpenSolaris User's Group meeting a few months back, one of the presenters asked a a fairly innocuous question to the gathered group of users: "How many of you use live upgrade?". Of the gathered people present (mostly professional sysadmins), I was the only one who raised ... http://courtneymalone.com/2007/12/01/solaris-liveupgrade/ I was really looking forward to the Zunesoftware update. Instead of getting a bevy of well integrated new features, I got a list of gripes. 1) Can't install the software. After the Zune 1.3 software found and downloaded the update, I launched it and the progress bar goes to 100% only to ... http://courtneymalone.com/2007/11/14/the-zune-20-software-is-not-so-good/ Most unexpected So far I have been pleasantly surprised with my Vista install, a few things needed upgrading but no show stoppers. At least not until I copied a file from the media center machine. I was getting only a few mb/s despite the fact that both machines are connected ... http://courtneymalone.com/2007/08/28/a-note-on-vista-network-speed/ 4 cores and 6 gb of 64 bit goodness I was regularly using more than 2gb of ram on my main desktop, and swapping was killing me. So I decided to decided to add more, however there was a problem; the 32 bit version of Windows XP i was using does ... http://courtneymalone.com/2007/08/27/upgrade-time/ That has to be some kind of record http://courtneymalone.com/2007/05/16/wow/ snow on the George Bush turnpike So Wednesday it was 78, today it was 25. I went from using the air conditioner to using the heater in about 6 hours. On to the pics! near DFW airport car dealership a covered jeep Perhaps I should use this instead of the furnace ... http://courtneymalone.com/2006/12/01/snow/ Wednesday some friends and I went to see a screening of Borat. For those of you who haven't heard of it, Borat is the name of a character played by Sacha Cohen (of Da Ali G Show fame). Borat is a reporter from Kazakhstan who gets into John Cleese-like ... http://courtneymalone.com/2006/09/22/of-kazakhstanis-and-social-networks/