UPDATE: Turns out the blank text messages I have been receiving are because of some updates that T-Mobile has recently done to their voice mail system. Apparently, the iPhone now interprets the information from T-Mobile about the voice mail status as blank text messages. Its a little annoying I guess but I can live with it since I have an unlocked phone and I don’t pay crazy fees to AT&T every month. If you want to read more about the problem, you can read this thread over at hackint0sh.org This morning I received a blank text message on my iPhone!...

I woke up extra early this morning (aka 9:30AM…I love being a college student) to buy tickets to the U2 concert in Tampa! Now I don’t have hundreds of dollars to spend so I was hoping to get tickets for one of the upper levels where I would still get a good view. I refreshed the Ticketmaster page at 10AM on the dot and the ordering form appeared instantly. I did a search for tickets in the $55 price range and it offered general admission tickets on the field. I didn’t really want these tickets since I wanted a guaranteed seat since I probably...

I was randomly looking up a date on the calendar using Windows 7 Beta today and accidentally discovered a new feature! Turns out this feature is also in Vista but I guess I never noticed in the past two years of using Vista. I’m sure many of you know about it but I just thought that it was worth sharing. In Vista, if you click on the clock in the bottom right corner of the task bar, then a little calendar widget pops up with a cool analog clock on it like so: What I realized is that if you click on the Month name it will “zoom out” the...

Firefox is an excellent browser and I personally use it constantly. Installing Firefox is usually the first thing I do after installing a fresh operating system and I use Firefox constantly since I spend many hours on the computer through out the week. One common feature of browsers now a days is the ability to save your passwords. The first time you type in a password on a website, a nice little bar pops up at the top of the browser asking if you would like to remember your password. Sure! Most people gladly click ‘Remember Password’ so that...

I certainly have neglected this blog recently but really hope to start writing on it more. I have been fairly busy with work but I’ll be done working for the summer in about 2 weeks so that is pretty exciting! Then I’ll start posting some more and will be working on uploading some of the programming projects I have been working on for anybody to look at. Anyways, time to talk about the title of this post! I have been looking for one of my flash drives all week and just could not find it. I threw some laundry in to the wash this morning and never...