Permanent link to: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.chrisboylan.com/blog/archives/000231.php">To-Do List</a>

<p>One of the repeating themes in my life is that I have all these goals and ideas of things I want to do or achieve. However, they often occur to me while I am busy, so I write them down so that I will get to them when I have the time.</p>

<p>Only one problem... even when I have the time, I find myself putting off these ...

Permanent link to: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.chrisboylan.com/blog/archives/000230.php">Book Review</a>

<p>For the last six months or so, I have been plodding through one 1200 page book.</p>

<p>The book:<br />
<u>The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York</u> by Robert A. Caro.</p>

<p>The quick review:<br />
This book is hands down, <strong>the best book I have read in my life</strong>!</p>

<p>The long review:<br />
To come. I will be posting ideas and points that I ...

Permanent link to: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.chrisboylan.com/blog/archives/000229.php">Virus Warning</a>

<p>Just a quick note to all you wacky kids out there:</p>

<p>There's a new email virus that is making quick inroads into people's computers. I believe that it works like the virus that came about a few months ago - it comes from people you know who have been infected. I've been sent it twice already.</p>

<p>The body of the message looks similar to this:</p>

<p>Mail transaction ...

Permanent link to: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.chrisboylan.com/blog/archives/000228.php">The Car</a>

<p>As Greg pointed out to me over the phone, I realized I had never told what happened to my car. In case you didn't read earlier, my car had sporadically stopped starting. I had resumed it was related to the cold outside, but it turns out that $250 later, it was just something really dumb.</p>

<p>My car is a 2001 Nissan Altima, which like many other dumb-ass ...

Permanent link to: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.chrisboylan.com/blog/archives/000227.php">Just when I was making progress</a>

<p>I had finished my X-Box, installed a network card on my TiVo, got my new MX-500 Universal Remote mostly programmed (relieving me of the 7 plus remote mess on the coffee table) and was working towards finally making this site pretty. I even managed to get some new pictures up (which many of you have noticed). And then...</p>

<p>TiVo takes a crap. Last ...

Permanent link to: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.chrisboylan.com/blog/archives/000226.php">Chicago Pictures are Up!</a>

<p>I finished captioning the Chicago pictures, so I opened the album in the Images section. Please check it out and leave comments. Remember that you have to login before leaving comments, but anyone can see the pictures without logging in. The login is the same as for the message board. </p>

<p>If you like the pictures, you can email them to friends in an e-card ...

Permanent link to: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.chrisboylan.com/blog/archives/000225.php">Making Progress</a>

<p>I'm up way too late, so I'll keep it brief. I finally got the digital camera working, so I have edited and uploaded the Chicago pictures. They are not available yet, as I will be captioning them this weekend, but the time draws near.</p>

<p>In more good news, I successfully modded my X-Box yesterday. It was remarkably easier than I thought, but I shall not go into ...

Permanent link to: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.chrisboylan.com/blog/archives/000224.php">Picture Frustrations</a>

<p>I had planned on starting to upload all of my backlogged pictures yesterday, when all things USB apparently stopped working on my computer. As of now, i still have no idea what's going wrong. Both my scanner and the digital camera are not connecting to the computer. Being understandably frustrated, I then decided I have to do something successful in order to offset the USB evil.</p>

<p>Thus, ...

Permanent link to: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.chrisboylan.com/blog/archives/000223.php">Back In the Fattest City in America</a>

<p>In case you haven't heard, Detroit has added another fine honor to its already overflowing basket of awards: Fattest City in America. In the interest of fair and balanced reporting, unlike our fine friends at Fox News - or any other form of mass media for that matter - I will provide some context. Namely that this award has nothing to do ...

Permanent link to: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.chrisboylan.com/blog/archives/000222.php">Holy Crap-a-moly!</a>

<p>It's been quite a good few days as I return back to Michiganland.</p>

<p>Let us review:</p>

<p>1. The Circuit City fun I had a week or so ago. (Check my last post.)<br />
2. I left my driver's license at my parent's house when I went to the airport to come home Saturday, stranding me in Newark for four fun-filled standby hours.<br />
3. The reason my ...