Portal is a free download on Steam right now.

For those of you that aren't my facebook friend, flickr friend, or don't follow my tweets, or haven't found out some other way, Betsey and I welcomed

Grace Kathleen Catchpole

into the world a little bit ago.

We're all doing great.

Pictures

I heard this story on NPR recently.

Guess what it brought to mind?

So where did it go?

I had a 63 character password on our router, and the iPod wouldn't connect to it. After exhaustively changing the router password to just the first 8 characters, then just the first 9 characters, just the first 10 characters, and so on, I discovered that the iPod didn't like that my password contained the letter combination "ql" within the string. That's lowercase Q followed by lowercase L. I changed the l to a d and now the iPod connects with the 63 character password without issue.

• Can someone see if they can reproduce that with their router, iPod, and a similar style password?

I'm wondering if I stumbled onto a very obscure Apple bug.

I need help.

I've become tired of having to go to the office to play PC games when Betsey is watching TV. I want to be next to her, even if we're in completely different worlds. To that end, I'm getting a gaming laptop. So far I've decided on this model:

Qosmio X505-Q870

Talk me out of it, or confirm that it's awesome. I haven't been in the new PC market in a long time.

Peace.

Has everyone seen this?

geekchartbig.gif

So, as more and more of the things I've experience on the internet have entered my life through sehti.com, I've been more and more needing a search function. Have they upgraded this software packaged with a rudimentary search function yet? I know you don't have enough to do right now Adam ;) , and this would be great.

Also, you have to get cookies working right at some point. Us CTRL + ENTER users still have to either delete the www or login twice.

I received this in my inbox today:

"This is an Amazon link to a Playmobile toy. You will have endless fun reading the customer reviews. Endless.

Amazon Link"

I was not disappointed.

Who is on Flickr and what's their user name?

I'm Cachew.

Peace,

Aang

NPR for the win!

Adam, I thought of you immediately of course:
Story

Practice voting today. Which user-designed icon will be the next available for select Garmin GPS systems?
http://www8.garmin.com/vehicles/mechanic/vote.html

Apparently Pica is an eating disorder. All this time I thought Pikachu was saying his name, instead it's a cry for help. He's saying his disease and it's symptoms the best any pokemon could in broken English.

Pica... Pica chew.

http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/pica-11089

This is my submission for bad-joke-of-the-blog.

I bought it at Costco today. I will be setting it up and playing tonight starting around either 6 or 8 PM PDT. I'll be posting whatever information is necessary to add me to your fight screens. I look forward to playing with everyone.

Nine Inch Nails released a new instrumental album, and it is soooo good. The first 9 of 36 songs are available for free from the site or through various bit torrents. You can download the entire album DRM free for 5 bucks. You can download the entire album DRM free and get CDs in the mail for 10 bucks. Trent is the man and he understands how music should be distributed.

Sadly his method is proving so popular that the site is down for a few hours, but if you've ever liked even one NIN song, check it out.

Sorry folks, if you missed it, it was nice while it lasted.