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I'm going to China!

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:09:58 -0700

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Really.

Here is a sign from a Chinese hospital:

See also my most recent queued video, which I also found while preparing for my trip.

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If I am the oxdottir, here is the ox

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:30:12 -0700

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Yes, this is my dad.

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XKCD is good today

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:15:47 -0800

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Sometimes I don't understand why something is funny

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:07:00 -0800

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For instance, this makes me laugh:

I keep looking at more and more of them at http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/, and I keep thinking I will tire of the joke, and I just keep laughing.

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Duet between GlaDOS and Jonathan Coulton

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:34:30 -0800

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Another worthy "non-video" (and Jonathan Coulton likes it):

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Japanese "Still Alive": とても　かわいい

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:41:41 -0800

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My continuing networking woes

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:14:35 -0800

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My house: one landline-connected desktop (my machine), one iphone, one wireless-connected desktop, which is brandnew, one laptop. I can see videosift from all computers but the new one, and the new one won't go there with either IE or firefox. I have it's firewall turned off, and it still won't go there. I've also had some odd errors with respect to videosift that might or might not be networking related (comments not showing up--the contact us link not working for me--getting error 404 when trying to get to my blog), so I figured maybe I just had fewer of the same type of error that the new computer was getting.

Tonight I called up and tortured a very nice man from linksys who walked me through tons of things with a tolerant eye towards it being the linksys router's problem. He even offered to replace my router, but he says the fact that my other wireless devices can see videosift and the new computer can't means it can't be the router's issue. Damn. I forgot to ask him about the traceroute. What could possibly cause ONE computer in my house to not get past that one place. Well, anyway, he told me to call up alienware and give them hell and that it has to be alienware's fault. Except, how am I going to explain that for some reason my son's computer get's stopped at castleaccess.com? How can that be alienware's fault.

I'm so muddled.

Just venting. I don't expect anyone to do anything. I just feel like the powers that be are trying to keep me away from videosift.

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Anyone else playing psychonauts?

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:13:08 -0800

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I've been playing this weekend, but I'm stuck now. Enjoying it less now that I can't get past a stupid race. Anyway, the game is fun, and very light weight. Im not really very good at twitch aspects of such games, and racing through an obstacle course is not my idea of a good time.

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help! Have new computer; refuses to recognize videosift

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:59:37 -0800

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My mom bought my son a new alienware computer. Very big. Very nice (much nicer than mine, except he gets my old monitor and I revel in 24" glory). It came with mcafee installed on it. I am not familiar with mcafee. I use symantec, and I've never had to think about it much past keeping it on and it very occasionally catches something.

My son's computer seems great, and I've made it homey by adding firefox and google desktop and various addons and open office and all that. It surfs everywhere I want to go, except videosift. At first I thought it might be the adblocker on firefox, but I can't get there on plain old internet explorer either. So I figure it has to be mcafee, so I disabled the firewall (figuring I could figure out if it was mcafee and figure out what to do correctly later: I still can't get to videosift. Even worse, after I try to get to videosift, it's like my network is frozen until I reboot my computer.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I don't want him to be unable to go to videosift (I send him links to vids pretty much daily). Any suggestions?

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Life without power/ life without email

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:02:01 -0800

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We had a big storm on the west coast of california this weekend, and I spent a day without power. Here's why:

(That picture was taken quite near my house, and I drove by that tree dragging the power lines earlier than this photo was taken. A house on the same street, a few blocks away, burned down because of downed power lines.)

And my school turned off all the compute servers because of power fluctuations, and tha's where I get most of my important email. I mean, sure, I can still send email out on any one of the 8 other accounts I have, but those places are not where anyone tries to contact me. I feel so at sea with no email. Yes, I know, my house didn't burn down, and I should count my blessings, but that sort of approach doesn't normally make me feel better. I want my email back.

So anyway, if I'm being stupid with my queue and such right now, that's why. No power, then no email. I don't note when I have member comments, etc.

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Latest Blog Entries by oxdottir at VideoSift.com

I'm going to China!

If I am the oxdottir, here is the ox

XKCD is good today

Sometimes I don't understand why something is funny

Duet between GlaDOS and Jonathan Coulton

Japanese "Still Alive": とても かわいい

My continuing networking woes

Anyone else playing psychonauts?

help! Have new computer; refuses to recognize videosift

Life without power/ life without email

Japanese "Still Alive": とても　かわいい