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Monday, March 14, 2011

DST atomic clock

I have one of those atomic clocks, that are supposed to update automatically. For the several years now that I've had it, it never caught the Daylight Saving Time time change. I let it go once, and it corrected itself Monday night.

I did some research, and learned that it checks itself at midnight. Which, of course, misses the DST change, because that happens at 2am.

Then, yesterday, I got up and it had reset itself properly.

WTF? Did they somehow distribute an update through the time signal? (Seems impossible.) Was my research that said it updated at midnight wrong? (Seems much more likely.) But if so, why didn't it ever update automatically for the 5+ years I've had it?!

I thought technology was supposed to make our lives easier, not more puzzling.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Look up your name on Urban Dictionary

Of course, it is Urban Dictionary, so be prepared for something horrible.

I ran across the idea in another blog: Look up your name in Urban Dictionary -- if you dare!

I did, and got this. I swear this is what came up first, but you're going to have to take my word for it, since I ain't putting my real name in a public blog. :) Fortunately, yes, I'm a guy.

1. [my first name]

    A man who is quite simply perfect.



Yeah. I can live with that.