This site is a BANDWIDTH HOG. PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO HELP OFFSET OUR BANDWIDTH COSTS. Even one dollar would help, and if you donate anything at all I will include your name in the forthcoming Dave Ryder Hall Of Fame (FTW!) BTW, the Bandwidth Hog (which many local readers may recognize as Sweetmeat, the mascot … The Bandwidth Hog

[here’s the mouseover text for our RSS readers: “The xkcd.com sysadmin has a Q2010, and I can attest that it can handle a fall down several flight of concrete steps. Relatedly, he’s upset with me — I hope he doesn’t take revenge by messing with my site’s contenDISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS] Ok that is … Laptop hell – Randall’s on a freakin’ roll!

Here I am hours before my 44th birthday. Hmmmm I don’t feel like an old man.

I have recently been in contact with Chris Rose, the awesome drummer who played on Electric Man. It’s been years since we talked, and it’s nice to know that even though we are both (much) older and (hopefully) wiser, we are still good buds. Most people don’t know it, but he was only 19 years … Chris Rose is back from the dead (and he doesn’t even smell)

Windows 7 beta has been released and here’s a comic about it from XKCD: [here’s the mouseover text for our RSS readers: “Diclaimer: I have not actually tried the beta yet. I hear it’s quite pleasant and hardly Hitler-y at all.”. You may notice the misspelling of “disclaimer”, I’m not sure that it’s a mistake … I will give up XP when they pry it from my cold dead PC

I check my website on FireFox and IE 6, and even occasionally went to lixlpixel Safari Screenshot Generator (although not recently, to be honest – and now it no longer works, but I used to go there a lot to test webpages in Safari). I thought everything was hunky dory tra-la-la-la-la and that my website … See your website on other browsers – Browsershots

I hope everyone had a very happy holiday season! I am so lame, I didn’t send any Christmas cards (but then, I never do so that’s no big surprise), but I did finally get around to making my annual Ryder Family Christmas Card Extravaganza (which I do every year). [As you can see he loves … The annual Ryder Family Christmas Card Extravaganza

As a friend pointed out to me recently, most people are rotten at soldering (you know who are are, gloppy blobbers). I am included among the lame solderers, and decided to say “bullshit – this is a skill I can acquire”, so my first stop, as usual, was wikipedia. Their article, while informative, was not … The art of soldering

We sent the I.S.S. crew a greeting card, and you can, too – just go here: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/postcard/ Here’s the one we sent (the back of it anyway – there are 4 fronts you can choose from, we picked the floating spaceman): When you click the [SEND] button you get this message, which is cool – … Send the crew of the I.S.S. a postcard for Christmas!

Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program `Gnomovision’ (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker. [signature of Ty Coon], 1 April 1989 Ty Coon, President of Vice