Parking sucks. But I’ve become better at parallel parking than I could have ever imagined.
My first power bill was $13. At my old place, I was paying $40/mo in the summer, and sometimes upwards of $100 in the winter. I hope this is not a first-month fluke.
Connectivity is fantastic. There’s free WiFi all over the [...]

I hate Ticketmaster. So do a lot of people. They suck, but if you want to go to any kind of concert or sporting event, you will eventually have to deal with them. I was never particularly happy with their insane “convenience” fees, which often reach 50% of the ticket price, but I had never [...]

I recently bought a Logitech V270 Bluetooth mouse. I like it, but I ran into a problem with tracking speed. The lowest setting is far too slow, and the next highest setting is far too fast. After some Googling and hunting around, I found the fix. It seems that while the Tracking Speed slider doesn’t [...]

So, I just tried to take a working directory and create a branch from it. It didn’t go quite as planned:
$ svn copy -m ‘Branch from working copy’ . svn+ssh://svn.example.com/svn/module/branches/release-2.0/’
# Note - approximately one hour passes
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Source url ’svn+ssh://joeuser@svn.example.com/svn/module/trunk’ is from different repository

I didn’t specify the username in the target repository [...]