Hijinks Inc.

Category: News

  • DHL = Fail

    Earlier this week I placed an order for a new toy, something I was greatly excited about getting. Thus, you can imagine my dismay when DHL began to ship the package in the wrong direction.

    Seriously, it started out in Fort Worth, TX and instead of shipping it to their Kansas City Hub, they sent it to Wilmington, OH… that’s not even in the general direction of Nebraska! What the crap?! To illustrate their failure I have prepared this map:
    Google Map

    Sure, it’s their money they’re wasting… but still. The good news is, that despite going the wrong direction, the package did make it within the scheduled delivery time.

  • Passing thoughts…

    I’ve been watching alot of basketball lately, which is weird because I usually don’t leave the channel on a b-ball game unless it’s late in the NBA playoffs or if it’s a 2nd or 3rd round NCAA tourney game. It’s just that ever since the madness that was the NBA trading deadline, I’ve actually been fairly interested in the NBA. I haven’t followed the NBA since Jordan was in his prime, let alone actually looking forward to watching a game. But things seem to be changing in the NBA. The focus is less on the thugs and more on the truly talented individuals, who actually are good people for a change.

    Houston just finished a 22-0 run through the middle of the season. That qualifies as the 2nd longest winning streak in NBA history, and they don’t even have an all-star player (they did for the first 14 or so wins, but then Yao went down with an injury and they just kept winning). Their roster is made of guys that play hard for the full 48 minutes every night, and always look for the open man, instead of how to get their shot on Sports Center. Boston finally found the right mix to end the streak, but it says alot for a team to put it together for 22 straight.

    My thoughts on the NCAA tourney after the jump.

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  • iTunes Error -9808

    A friend of mine suddenly couldn’t access the iTunes Store after upgrading to the latest version, every time he tried to purchase something he kept getting the following error:

    “We could not complete your iTunes store request,an unknown error occurred (-9808)”

    I couldn’t find anything online about it, so here’s how we fixed it under Windows XP. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Advanced Tab, make sure that both the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 options are checked. Then under Security make sure that the “Check for server certificate revocation (requires restart)” is unchecked. Then click ok, restart and fire up iTunes.

  • The 10yr Rule

    The theory is that every ten years your investment doubles in value, and now I have proof!

    So I haven’t exactly been actively investing in the stock market for ten years, but unbeknownst to me just under ten years ago my Grandfather took out an Educational IRA (much like a 529 plan) on my behalf, at the time he invested $400 in an American Century fund and set it up with a DRIP (Dividend Reinvestment Program)… Now ten years later, even though the fund has dropped significantly in value, his original investment is now worth $903 thanks to that DRIP. Pretty cool.

    Now the 10 year rule is a nice thought, but I’m sure it doesn’t always apply. And in todays market, it hard to imagine any investment doubling in value.

  • Hulu Goes Public

    Hulu is set to go public tomorrow, during the course of the private beta they’ve added quite a bit of content from various networks and content partners… here’s the full list their content partners.

    • FOX
    • NBC Universal
    • MGM
    • Sony Pictures Television
    • Warner Bros. Television Group
    • Access Hollywood
    • AST Dew Tour
    • BNET
    • Bravo
    • Broadway Video
    • CenterStaging
    • Chic.tv
    • Chiller
    • CHOW
    • CNET
    • Comedy Time
    • E! Entertainment Television
    • ExerciseTV
    • FEARnet
    • Ford Models
    • Fox Atomic
    • Fox Movie Channel
    • Fox Reality
    • Fox Searchlight
    • Fox Sports
    • Fox TV Studios
    • Fuel TV
    • FX Networks
    • G4TV
    • Gamespot
    • Gamespy
    • Hidden Universe
    • IGN
    • Image Entertainment
    • Lionsgate
    • LX.TV
    • MEN7
    • Mojo
    • Movieola
    • My Network TV
    • National Geographic Channel
    • National Geographic Digital Shorts
    • NBA
    • NBC Sports
    • NBCU TV
    • NHL
    • Oxygen
    • Paley Media
    • Red Bull
    • Reveille
    • Salient Media
    • SciFi Channel
    • Shout! Factory
    • Sleuth Channel
    • SpaceRip
    • Speed
    • Sundance Channel
    • Taste TV
    • The Fight Network
    • The Golf Channel
    • The Onion
    • The Style Network
    • Thought Equity
    • TV Guide
    • TVG
    • Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
    • Twentieth Century Fox Television
    • Twentieth Television
    • Universal Pictures
    • USA Network
    • Versus
    • Vuguru
    • WatchMojo
    • Wine Library TV
    • World Wrestling Entertainment