tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55644762012-01-22T17:47:02.130-08:00Generally Useless Information on Technology, the Internet, Gaming, Cars, and the like...cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-25736317612671774732010-02-25T08:41:00.000-08:002010-02-25T08:44:17.534-08:00

I recently decided to eat at Sushi Mon by the Beverly Center for the first time in years. I always had fond memories of the place and thought it would be fun to give it a go one more time. Yeah, bad idea. Below is my Yelp review of the experience - my first ever negative Yelp review.--snip--Disclaimer: I don’t like saying bad things about places. Alas, this food sucked so badly that this is

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-42186726874235680402010-02-22T15:45:00.000-08:002010-02-22T16:35:39.830-08:00

Very cool article in Wired on Compressed Sensing.Compressed sensing works something like this: You’ve got a picture — of a kidney, of the president, doesn’t matter. The picture is made of 1 million pixels. In traditional imaging, that’s a million measurements you have to make. In compressed sensing, you measure only a small fraction — say, 100,000 pixels randomly selected from various parts of

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-38666264302667343352009-02-04T16:32:00.000-08:002009-02-04T16:39:38.901-08:00

N.J. Congressman seeks probe of Springsteen concert sales by TicketmasterBruce Springsteen, Ticketmaster Ticket ScamCongressman Wants Ticketmaster Investigated For 'TicketsNow' WebsiteThis is blown out of proportion. A pile of people flooded TM site. The site broke. The site always breaks. Technology will do that with unexpected loads. Ok, fine. Their service sucks and is overpriced – we

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-50545903534813956352008-10-30T11:55:00.001-07:002008-10-30T11:58:12.024-07:00

For about a year I was a mildly happy user of CallWave.  To be honest, their service didn't do a great job of converting my voicemails to text - and it usually messed up the transcription in ways that made me laugh.  So I kept their beta service active on my phone, figuring it would get better. After about a year, I never saw much improvement in the service.  They did send me a nice email asking

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-68989494104653391372008-10-30T11:28:00.001-07:002008-10-30T11:28:51.989-07:00

A friend of mine forwarded this great video of MC Yogi's "Vote For Hope" - written and performed by MC Yogi and produced by Robin Livingston. The production quality impressed me, and it's a good tune too!  I actually d/l'd the track from Yogi's site and have it in today's playlist.  :)  Check it out!

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-3944593067205136312008-10-15T15:05:00.001-07:002008-10-15T15:07:14.067-07:00

I realize the Dow is down Goog, you guys included.  But you really couldn't find one more or less article related to this to report on?  

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-67279459109880963462008-07-08T17:53:00.001-07:002008-07-08T17:53:03.348-07:00

So a good friend of mine is an excellent artist - with talent (and hair) flowing freely from his ears.  But sadly, when it comes to technology he can be all thumbs.  To be fair, he's actually better than what I would expect from his paintbrush wielding brethren - but if I had a quarter for every time I told him to "Google it," I'd be Larry Brin. This is the Callwave transcript (which is about as

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-33906787962742996882008-07-07T10:15:00.000-07:002008-07-07T10:21:44.784-07:00

As if we don't already all hear enough strange voices in our heads, The Sierra Nevada Corporation has decided that instead of just working on their seasonal brews they would instead ramp up production on a super-scary ray gun that makes you hear things by turning your skull into a giant woofer. Great.The best quote of the whole Gizmodo article has to be this one:"The pulses create a shockwave

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-24892559990221993852008-07-02T11:23:00.001-07:002008-07-02T13:14:59.189-07:00

That's right, you can have yourself laser engraved.  Sweet.  And I bet they'll still bury you in a Jewish cemetery.  Bonus! In Soviet Russia, moleskin engrave you!

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-60392082088797727012008-06-17T09:24:00.001-07:002008-06-17T09:24:22.592-07:00

So this is what the losing end of a hockey bet looks like?  Seems the Pennsylvania Governor was a little overly confident in the Penguins, eh?  What a good sport for going through with it.  I love the fact that he is drinking Faygo Rock-and-Rye - brilliant! And to think that I won my hockey bet (with myself?) and you all know how that ended up...

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-65296232757957214662008-06-01T21:12:00.001-07:002008-06-01T21:12:40.929-07:00

So on occasion I find a POS (Piece Of SPAM) in my inbox (thanks a lot Exchange) that I truly enjoy.  This week it was one titled: 'shore girl' 1. Find a girl 2. Invite her to your appartments 3. Use subject product V (or C) 4. Have fun 5. Take her number 6. Profit? While inviting her to my appartments sounds pretty solid, step 6 is clearly my favorite.  I hope shore

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-88595394230953579312008-05-27T09:03:00.001-07:002008-05-27T09:03:06.421-07:00

Part of my brain keeps saying "go code in Cocoa and leave the rest all behind". I beat that part of my brain with a stick.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-51906305595848739652008-05-21T01:05:00.001-07:002008-05-21T10:26:26.370-07:00

So the fine folks over at KCAL wanted to do a piece on nerds rediscovering non-nerdy devices - like the pen and paper.  As an avid Moleskine advocate, they shot some (B) roll of me on Tuesday for their Tech Check segment.  Other than looking like Brother Ishmael from Kingpin, I think I pulled it off - only breaking out words unsuitable for their viewership once. Stop reading and watch the video

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-37886042811320559442008-04-28T09:14:00.001-07:002008-04-28T09:14:37.652-07:00

Sure PriceLine, I'll click through your review of the Grand Hyatt I stayed at in SF last week.  I'll even spend 5 minutes giving you honest feedback.  But then you got a little snippy with me, didn't you?  You told me to write a review.  Well ok, here are my thoughts: The Grand Hyatt is a perfectly adequate go-to hotel for business travelers that need easy access to the city.  Outfitted with

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-55336907351598207502008-04-08T12:03:00.000-07:002008-04-08T12:09:36.050-07:00

As a rabid technophile, and systems/information architect I welcome our new Google App overlords and look forward to consuming their new App Platform. But then again, in the spirit of full disclosure, I’ve been drinking the software-as-a-service Kool-Aid for quite some time. But just because the brain-trust that is Google is providing a platform doesn’t solve every underlying problem.Stacey

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-84230388253449517202008-02-23T14:07:00.001-08:002008-02-23T14:07:09.993-08:00

This has to be one of my favorite errors on Vista thus far.  I love the fact that the OS is trying to help users that don't understand the importance of matching native resolution on LCD's, but it sure is amusing when the stack gets a little screwy.  :)

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-70474452531853882792008-02-19T16:37:00.000-08:002008-02-19T16:40:30.190-08:00

I found this link while looking for a quick comparison of 16:9 TV surface areas. I found the output from this tool very useful, but haven't checked it for accuracy. For example, it told me that a 50" 16:9 TV (vs. a 32" 4:3 TV) is 63% larger when viewing 4:3 content (SD), and 190% larger when viewing 16:9 (HD) content.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-26075657518112771602008-01-19T12:42:00.000-08:002008-01-19T12:47:32.740-08:00

It looks like an 'oil-man' has been running around committing larceny using the moniker that I've grown quite so fond of. But not just any larceny, grand larceny my friends.I found this abstract on the NYT site, which was pretty cool. The link to the PDF of the actual article is far cooler however.WTF is an oil-man anyway?

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-5824482437152905032008-01-15T19:35:00.000-08:002008-01-19T12:41:52.093-08:00

If you were barely alive during the 80's, constantly stuck in a quandary between feasting on paste for lunch or hypnotically snapping and unsnapping your Members Only jacket, then this article may be for you.Rebecca Kelley has written this little gem, known as The 8 Most Unintentionally Erotic Atari 2600 Games, over on Topless Robot. She is presumed hawt.If you can make it through the drawing on

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-44181355589673158822007-11-27T09:08:00.001-08:002007-11-27T09:12:53.592-08:00

As a long time user of Diskeeper, which I've always recommended as a product, I've never had to think about disk defragmentation and maintenance. However when tweaking a new machine that I'll be using for a while at a friend's company, I decided to just automate the new (for XP), CLI disk defragmenter defrag.exe. I simply setup a scheduled task to run daily at 4am.  It executes the following

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-91504192209290729232007-11-20T15:18:00.001-08:002007-11-20T15:18:54.505-08:00

So earlier this month I attended BarCampLA4, which was a blast.  If you haven't attended a BarCamp event and like any two of the following: tech, nerds, learning, sharing, or free beer - then you should definitely make it out to the next BarCamp in your area. For this particular BarCamp we had a fantastic chap by the name of Mr. Dave Bullock of eecue.com fame snapping portraits of everyone there.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-64538005438359333402007-11-20T09:17:00.001-08:002007-11-20T09:17:06.423-08:00

I just came across a great read in Vanity Fair from Christopher Hitchens, a proper British bloke.  If you've got 10 minutes, give parts I & II a read - if you're reading this blog, then he is sure to give you a jolly laugh at least a handful of times. My favorite bit from Part I: Viewed from the front when clothed, the subject resembles a burst horsehair sofa cushion or (in the opinion of one of

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-58159425970041667392007-10-10T20:46:00.001-07:002007-10-10T20:46:46.798-07:00

This morning at just past 11am local we were hit with a nice 4.9 magnitude earthquake here in Taiwan - about 33 miles south-south-east of us in Taipei.  On the 9th floor it felt like a bit of shaking, some rumbling, a peak, then a bit more shaking.  Good times! I only wish we were back up on 89 at Taipei 101 - that would be cool.  I'm certain that mass damper moved a bit with the way we were

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-83371987032481744582007-10-10T02:31:00.001-07:002007-10-10T02:42:57.026-07:00

So today we were sitting in a cab at a street light headed to the convention center, minding our own business - everything was fine. Then, out of nowhere, I notice something out of place. Namely what appeared to be a mobile SAM site on the back of some camouflaged military truck. WTDF? My first thought: I haven't seen this since watching "Spies Like Us" when I was a kid. Oh Chevy Chase, whatever

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-78560247459458615462007-09-06T01:31:00.001-07:002007-09-06T01:31:39.311-07:00

One of my best friends and technical comrades pitched this idea to each other about 3 years ago on the way to lunch: marry context and performance based advertising to video content on your Tivo.  Stop charging for the monthly subscription, and make it up through targeted ad revenue.  Well, looks like guys smarter than I are doing it: Rex Wong, the former CEO of Applied Semantics (later Google

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-75461248986910737462007-09-06T01:28:00.001-07:002007-09-06T01:28:14.284-07:00

From the blog of Jason Calacanis comes an interesting description of the CTO / CEO dynamic.  I found it worth reading for anyone that has had, has, or will have a startup of technical nature.  My favorite line has to be:  "Get me some crack" I'd tell him... anything. I need something. Ahhh, the life of a CTO... Good times.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-65500965582112017672007-08-21T11:11:00.001-07:002007-08-21T11:11:53.047-07:00

If you like cars, even just a little, then you must read this.  I recently heard about this car from a motor sports fanatic friend of mine.  The Porsche 917 - this thing is amazing!  Some notable quotes. “Low weight was the top priority -- the shift knob was made from balsa wood.” “In the 917, wheel spin at over 200 mph was commonplace. Drivers would not only pray for their cars to break down,

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-65160836365532176812007-07-04T12:31:00.001-07:002007-07-04T12:31:09.406-07:00

I went and saw the new Transformers movie at the Mann Village last night.  if you haven't already seen it, go.  It rocked.  First time I've wanted to see an action flick a second time. Was in the best evar, no. Did it beat my expectation, yes. Did Michael Bay fuck it up as bad as I thought he would, no. Was it a giant advertisement for GM, yes. The CG was cool, the characters were cool.  The

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-49830270659596103492007-06-27T21:11:00.001-07:002007-06-27T21:11:25.282-07:00

So this looks pretty promising - and he doesn't look like a Jobs clone.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-40574901022721126952007-06-27T20:06:00.001-07:002007-06-27T20:06:22.398-07:00

So it looks like the iPhone is falling plenty short, as predicted (by me).  It's still going to sell like crazy on this weeks black Friday. I'm going to wear my Windows 95 tshirt and go troll the local Apple stores.  Good times.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-92176395868997880652007-06-27T20:04:00.001-07:002007-06-27T20:04:23.527-07:00

So there's a bill in the Senate that wants to outlaw Caller-ID spoofing.  Great.  Good thing I’m still getting 200+ pieces of SPAM a day. They sure are tackling the right problems in Washington these days, eh? :sigh:

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-10347402053499020132007-06-26T11:14:00.001-07:002007-06-26T11:24:52.363-07:00

So I watched the iPhone Activation & Sync video today on Apple's site.  They are right, the iPhone is the best, most amazing thing ever.  Move over sliced bread and pacemakers - what have you done for my life? Anyway, watch the video here.  Note that when they are showing the end of the iTunes sync process it shows his "sample" iPhone as having 80 some  gigabytes of storage.  I want that Super

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-87450996343929381212007-06-25T23:08:00.001-07:002007-06-25T23:08:17.349-07:00

I know you don't read my blog.  I know you didn't read my insightful posts about Callwave or GrandCentral.  It's ok, I'll get over it. :sigh: But ponder this:  it would be pretty easy for someone to make a simple voicemail app with a computer and a cheap VM card (like an old Dialogic for instance).  You could then set it up to mimic a voicemail system.  Taking what we learned during the Callwave

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-4969592102533709712007-06-25T22:56:00.001-07:002007-06-25T22:56:01.572-07:00

If you read my blog (which you don't) then you know that recently I posted about GrandCentral here. But wait, there's more innovation for our beloved antiquated medium the phone! CallWave, based in Santa Barbara, has rolled out their very cool beta app Vtxt.  Sadly, they have stricken it with a seemingly v1 tag: "Think Outside the Phone".  :yawn: The pitch here is that you point your phone's VM

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-23555886114481223582007-06-25T22:44:00.001-07:002007-06-25T22:44:43.568-07:00

There's a new service on the block, and it looks like it is going to be gobbled up by our good friends at Google.  GrandCentral wants you to tie all your phones into one.  A great idea, and believe it or not one I wanted to do about 10 years ago - so it is very close to my heart.  My vision was one number that would "find" me no matter where I was.  Access to me via voice would be dependent on:

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-63645635346035673952007-05-17T10:38:00.001-07:002007-05-17T10:38:46.098-07:00

So two chat bots (ALICE and Jabberwacky) meet online.  They are seeded with a simple question, and the following conversations emerge.  I found this very amusing, especially these bits below: J: Do you believe in God?A: Of course I believe in God.J: Why do you believe in God?A: The Bible tells us to believe in God.J: That’s circular reasoning.A: I’m glad we have that all cleared up.J: Yes. Would

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-59362006701938884802007-05-14T13:21:00.001-07:002007-05-14T13:21:53.983-07:00

This idea is tantalizing, I for one am all for it. I would happily pay $30-$50 to let my friends come over and watch the latest flick while enjoying some good food, and not theater "I-can-believe-it's-not-butter" crap. But I also have to believe that the actual bottom-line loss would be significant, at least from the consumer’s dollar-out perspective. I have no idea how much of my $14 a

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-43323796860272697122007-05-14T09:35:00.001-07:002007-05-14T09:42:53.957-07:00

There never was a bubble.  This is not the bubble you are looking for.  Move along. What the researchers found was that, in a random sample, nearly half of companies that received venture funding in 1999 are still in business today. While I can follow the reasoning that TechDirt is employing here, I have a hard time letting that part of me rationalize pets.com, eToys.com, and flooz.com. On the

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-69599177758227735142007-05-14T09:23:00.001-07:002007-05-14T09:23:16.466-07:00

 I found this quote from the Brit's Times Online quite amusing: Advanced Micro Devices has revealed a new computer chip series that carries four processing cores — or brains I realize that this isn't worth of a blog post, but no one reads this but the Google spider anyway (hi Larry & Sergey!).

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-10496057502399920632007-05-04T12:07:00.001-07:002007-05-04T12:18:35.311-07:00

As the owner of one of a Gumball-esque car, and frequenter of rally and drive events, I can say that this really sucks.  The folks who go on these events never want to see anyone get hurt, but it doesn't always ensure that they act accordingly. So now two folks that were just out, most likely trying to make ends meet while cruising around in their red VW have died.  Yeah, no one is speeding

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-89477174703334073302007-05-02T17:52:00.001-07:002007-05-02T18:05:08.869-07:00

Steven Milloy: sucks.  Media and bloggers repeating what they read: suck.  Misinformation: sucks.  Getting roped into it all: priceless. So my previous post here spoke of an article (and set of articles and news) that told a tale of a CFL disaster in a poor woman's home - costing her two-large in order to fix.  But: One indicator of Milloy's [the not-so-factual 'reporter'] trustworthiness on this

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-55858379067646046662007-04-30T13:43:00.001-07:002007-04-30T13:43:35.894-07:00

I'm going back on the wagon.  It was four awesome years of meat and dairy free goodness.  If you read this blog (which you don't) then you may have read my post earlier today Coal: It's What's for Dinner.  Lately (6 months or so) I've been eating some of the shit that I swore off.  It was under the guise of an editorial I read (or thought I read) in Saveur Magazine some time ago.  The gist: an

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-39845409030612584002007-04-30T12:58:00.001-07:002007-05-02T17:52:28.718-07:00

UPDATE: Apparently someone has "said in ain't so".  My update here. Someone please tell me that this is not accurate.  Woman buys compact fluorescent light bulb for $4, breaks it while installing it (we've all done that) and spends $2k cleaning up the mess.  The article goes on further to do math: As each CFL contains five milligrams of mercury, at the Maine "safety" standard of 300 nanograms per

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-11597907998014373872007-04-30T12:52:00.001-07:002007-04-30T13:38:10.756-07:00

Are you kidding me??  Coal?  In my pet's food?  Good work China America! For years, producers of animal feed all over China have secretly supplemented their feed with the substance [made from coal], called melamine, a cheap additive that looks like protein in tests, even though it does not provide any nutritional benefits, according to melamine scrap traders and agricultural workers here. It's

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-46895704404290921312007-04-27T16:16:00.001-07:002007-04-27T16:16:44.872-07:00

I haven't "checked the math" but seems plausible.  So is $55M per day enough to start a true-to-form Windows rewrite?  I surely hope so.  I'm pretty sure they can get it done, they just need the reason.  Microsoft today announced quarterly revenue of $14.4 billion and net income of $4.93 billion. In other words, Microsoft’s daily net income is about $55 million. That’s $55 million in pure profit

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-84780554472475359412007-04-23T11:45:00.001-07:002007-04-23T11:46:00.794-07:00

War on Terror Board Game Tournament at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood. Anyone interested in going to this with me this weekend? They will be selling and playing the War on Terror Board Game. It is between La Brea and Fairfax on Sunset: 7522 W Sunset BlvdLos Angeles, CA 90046 I was thinking Saturday late morning / early afternoon (depending on NHL playoffs) and then grab lunch afterwards. Thoughts?

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-51856302269610750862007-04-23T07:24:00.001-07:002007-04-23T07:24:43.784-07:00

This was a fun article in Esquire.  My two favorites:  5. Black Cat espresso from Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea. A triple. Note the exceedingly heavy body, with chocolate, caramel, and dried-fruit notes. Also note that you're vibrating. That means it's working. intelligentsiacoffee.com. 37. Speaking truth to power. Thomas Becket. William Wallace. You.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-3051707266164659762007-04-19T16:47:00.001-07:002007-04-19T16:48:47.692-07:00

Nerd makes world's hardest Super Mario world. Chinese gamer plays world's hardest Super Mario world. Asshat finds video on the Internet and adds frustrating, yet amusing, commentary. Hilarity ensues. .: QED If you have 24 minutes of your life that you would not like back, enjoy this video courtesy of our boingboing friends.  I got a good chuckle out of it.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-3729200147898388422007-04-19T11:59:00.001-07:002007-04-19T11:59:56.741-07:00

 One of my favorite people on the planet, Mr. Bruce Schneier (of Crypto-Gram and Facts fame) wrote a commentary piece on Wired today: I see this kind of thing happening over and over in computer security. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were more than a hundred competing firewall products. The few that "won" weren't the most secure firewalls; they were the ones that were easy to set up

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-41435978862670437012007-04-19T11:48:00.001-07:002007-04-19T11:48:58.829-07:00

This is bloody fantastic.  The StealthSwitch is a foot controlled peddle under your desk.  Click it and it will minimize all your applications, or all except a certain couple.  When the unwelcomed boss visitor leaves, click it again and go back to your never ending Never Winter Nights saga. I want to mod this for my 360. :)

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-25130825683754694472007-04-18T23:25:00.001-07:002007-04-18T23:25:42.948-07:00

So I have this WRG614v1 (the original - aka WGR614) that I just won't let go of. It's not that I like it, to the contrary, I actually hate the damn thing. But I refuse to get rid of it for one primary reason - bandwidth. I have a fairly cheap and reliable internet connection that runs at about 8Mbps sustained. That's pretty awesome. The WGR614 is an 802.11g router, which should do 54Mbps

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1172706235547793232007-02-28T15:43:00.000-08:002007-04-02T12:17:58.673-07:00

 I ate at AMMO today for lunch and enjoyed it quite a bit.  I'd recommend it for any of you in LA looking for a nice place with great fare.  My CitySearch review: Simply put: fantastic fare and experience at AMMO. I found the staff quick and helpful at lunch, and the food was very tasty. The lemonade is a must, no doubt. My starter salad fit the climate: fresh and light. Even though my Ahi was

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1171353476355840002007-02-12T23:56:00.000-08:002007-02-20T07:38:39.073-08:00

So tonight I was lucky enough to receive my Halo 3 Beta invite. Yes, that's right - you can all eat your heart out.I played Halo 2 for almost an hour at E3 six months before it was released. Then in November 2004 (on release night) I proceeded to play Halo 2 for 3 days straight with a fellow group of asshats. We've amassed a collection of projectors, 8' portable screens, LCD monitors, and all the

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1171301403139031492007-02-12T09:30:00.000-08:002007-02-12T09:30:03.993-08:00

A new study in the Journal of Political Economy has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry. Using detailed records of transfers of digital music files, we find that file sharing has had no statistically significant effect on purchases of the average album in our sample.  Even our most negative point

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1170982244405661282007-02-08T16:50:00.000-08:002007-02-08T16:50:44.810-08:00

Since they already patented cookies, why not patent scanning?  Seems logical to me.  Let's play a game, it's called "Name Something That Apple or Amazon Didn't Invent..."  You go first. Amazon was granted a patent on Tuesday by the USPTO that covers a technique for allowing users "to request access to one or more electronic images of pages in a physical text." If you think this sounds like

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1170824989118786802007-02-06T21:09:00.000-08:002007-02-06T21:09:49.123-08:00

I enjoyed reading Jobs' open letter regarding music, DRM, and most importantly, the best thing since sliced bread, the iPod.  Of course what I enjoyed the most is hearing him say the same thing I (and a bunch of other folks) have been saying for years.  I (not important) have always referred to it as a cat-and-mouse game, and I'm glad to see that Jobs (someone important) has addressed the 1,200lb

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1170824228418438792007-02-06T20:57:00.000-08:002007-02-06T20:57:08.483-08:00

Ok, so it's not that bad - but still, TechCrunch is reporting that the big beta launch of Walmart's video download service looks like complete garbage on Firefox.  I'm not saying they should have made the site completely FF compatible at beta launch, but at least fix some of the basic stuff, or displayed a "Sorry FF user, you are SOL" page would have been decent. Good times.  Enjoy Internet flame

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1170126204390913682007-01-29T19:03:00.000-08:002007-01-29T19:03:24.496-08:00

I'm stunned how people aren't seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we've had. ... Certain things like elections or the Olympics really point out how TV is terrible. You have to wait for the guy to talk about the thing you care about or you miss the event and want to go back and see it. ... Internet presentation of these things is vastly superior. But to be fair,

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1168280630912725682007-01-08T10:23:00.000-08:002007-02-19T15:52:02.320-08:00

This is great news for MS and anyone working with their technology; not so good for Sony and their inadequate successor product.  This shows just how much thought the guys at MS have put into this product experience.  HDMI and integrated HD-DVD players in the 360 are just around the corner.  My Zero Hour launch faceplate had better fit those new 360's! Microsoft Links Xbox 360, IPTV Gates and

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1167936514768103202007-01-04T10:48:00.000-08:002007-01-05T10:54:19.383-08:00

So Warner Bros. figured out how to put various layers on a disc, BFD. They are calling it TotalHD. Great, more confusion. Why not just put two discs in a single case? Oh that's right, because you content producers and distributors do not want them to last. I bet this thing is just a double sided disc - which if you think about, is a whole lot more prone to scratching than the single sided

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1167935462951836182007-01-04T10:31:00.000-08:002007-01-05T10:52:12.966-08:00

 I love the continued Blu-ray / HD-DVD war - it continues to make the case for clear, straightforward delivery on the wire.  So maybe now you'll listen to what I've been saying about digital content delivery and stop fighting over little round pieces of plastic that will soon be extinct. From CNET News: "There's no question having two incompatible next-generation DVD formats is an untenable

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1167433446325324702006-12-29T15:04:00.000-08:002007-01-04T15:24:36.723-08:00

I haven't used this app yet, but the review on  TechCrunch looks very promising.  I signed up for the beta on their website, and expect (hope?) to hear back from them soon. Other than the name (which I truly dislike), this looks to be a very valuable product.  I would gladly embrace the concept of tagging any object (be it email, file, calendar entry, etc.)  I kind of do something similar with

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1161912756575908752006-10-26T18:32:00.000-07:002007-04-14T00:20:06.370-07:00

So who woulda thunk that Microsoft would have a very slick SPF Record Setup Wizard up on their site. If you're not familiar with SPF, or Sender Policy Framework for long, then give a quick read to this article on MSExchange.org.  Basically, SPF is a kludge of the DNS to try and provide authentication for where email is allowed to come from on a per domain basis.  Why is this ineffective, because

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1161844459054084582006-10-25T23:34:00.000-07:002006-10-25T23:34:19.056-07:00

Thanks to the guys at GameRevolution.com who assembled the more than mildly amusing 50 Worst Video Game Names Of All Time.  Good for a 5 minute detour out of your busy  hectic  boring day.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1161844272070597402006-10-25T23:31:00.000-07:002006-10-25T23:31:12.116-07:00

So this little three year old kid wants a SpongeBob SquarePants doll, and decides to get one however he can.  Two minutes later his grandmother can't find him - oh wait, he's in the machine.  The picture here is priceless.  Good times. The real bitch here is that he didn't get the damn doll.  At least not for lack of trying.  I'm assuming they gave him something, they just didn't have a SpongeBob

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1161832638551848392006-10-25T20:17:00.000-07:002006-10-25T20:17:18.556-07:00

So I was asked today if DOS would run on Vista, as both a consultant and staff IT manager stated that it would not.  My gut was to say "Yes, of course it will run," but I wanted to make sure my gut wasn't lying to me.  So here's how I wasted an hour of my day: Microsoft says: Q: Will my MS-DOS applications continue to run under Windows Vista without modification?A: Yes, they will. Great,

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1161831895393368252006-10-25T20:04:00.000-07:002006-10-25T20:05:56.546-07:00

So in a fit of frustration on a flight to Detroit last week (before I caught my nasty, nasty Michigan cold) I started banging around the iTunes COM SDK a bit with .NET.  I was able to hammer out some really cool functionalitiy (to me, an idiot that is).  When I went looking for some resources I found the following that I wanted to share with you, the Google Spider (the one sole reader of this

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1161743679547910782006-10-24T19:34:00.000-07:002006-10-24T19:34:39.596-07:00

"It has put a terrible scare into people," said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law at Whittier Law School. "But it won't by any means wipe out Internet gambling."  Going on later to say that: "The regulations are clearly going to prevent banks from doing electronic fund transfers to gambling sites, but that is no big deal." This is exactly what I've been saying for years. As this article

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1159925483652953532006-10-03T18:31:00.000-07:002006-10-03T18:31:23.730-07:00

Remember Jon Lech Johansen?  The 15-year old Norwegian that brought DeCSS and QTFairUse into the world?  Well he's still free and still up to his reverse-engineering ways - but now with DoubleTwist Ventures up in SF, CA. Their pitch is very interesting.  They are selling "iTunes-compliant" Apple DRM (Fairplay) so that you can protect your content - but with the rub that you do not have to go

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1159839116507276792006-10-02T18:31:00.000-07:002007-04-08T12:08:39.146-07:00

So today my good friend Larry (aka: Larmo; ArcaneC5; Lawrence of Polesmokia) brought the iTunes photo cache kludge to my attention.  What iPod photo cache kludge you ask (as I did)?  Well according to Google, no one is talking about this.  According to Larry, everyone is too busy kissing Apple's ass.  I believe them both. Apparently the folks at Apple, in their infinite knowledge of how to

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1159222713321456122006-09-25T15:18:00.001-07:002006-09-25T15:18:33.326-07:00

Bruce Schneier, of international security fame, is speaking at USC tomorrow, Tuesday September 26th @ 7pm.  I'll be there...

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1159222690758928312006-09-25T15:18:00.000-07:002006-09-25T15:18:10.763-07:00

Absolutely fantastic essay written by one of my favorite technologists, Mr. Bruce Schneier.  If you know me, or you know technology, I urge you to read his essay that appeared in the Summer 2006 issue of 2600.  It summarizes my exact view and beliefs of many things, including what must be one of the most dynamic technology-related words: 'hacker'.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1159221521777406722006-09-25T14:58:00.000-07:002006-09-25T14:58:42.190-07:00

The Jelbert GeoTagger is a very cool device that fits into the flash shoe of your favorite SLR.  Once on, it records the precie location and direction of every photograph you take.  It gets even better when thought of next to the Microsoft's Photosynth product.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1158281770047041512006-09-14T17:56:00.000-07:002006-09-14T17:56:10.126-07:00

So it looks like Yahoo! launched their Viiv service yesterday with an initial focus on providing fantasy football information to those rabid fantasy football fans.  Looks pretty cool. Yahoo Gives Users a Reason to Buy Viiv

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1158163585880640642006-09-13T09:06:00.000-07:002006-09-13T09:06:25.936-07:00

Good times in the Sudan! "A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal." From BBC NEWS

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1158141890888086222006-09-13T03:04:00.000-07:002006-09-13T03:04:50.983-07:00

According to this ad, 970 trillion kWh of energy (sunlight to you non-nerds) goes unused everyday.  I for one would like to start using it. In the meantime, here is the very cool ad for German Solar Power 'Pioneers' Solon.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1158135092673612872006-09-13T01:11:00.000-07:002006-09-13T01:11:32.676-07:00

 So BugMeNot.com is a great little service that provides you with a general, 'public' username and password for sites that require registration.  That, in and of itself, is pretty cool. But couple it with the Firefox extension that I found today, and logging on to all those annoying news sites becomes trivial.  It even reduces context menu clutter by only showing you the BugMeNot option on

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1158134624293106032006-09-13T01:03:00.000-07:002006-09-13T01:03:44.370-07:00

 I stumbled upon (thank you Google Alerts!) an interesting and seemingly complete synopsis of the current legislation used in prosecuting those involved with online gaming, as well as information about those that have been prosecuted by the US. My favorite snippet is probably this quote from John G.Malcolm, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1157579967924995922006-09-06T14:59:00.000-07:002006-09-06T14:59:27.926-07:00

I've found more and more stuff on the ars technica website that I've liked and enjoyed; and less and less of the garbage that infiltrates most blogs (like this one). Carbon: The Gift That Keeps on Giving"Planet Earth seemed to have a pretty good system going. Carbon [...] got used as the building block for all life on earth. [...] Eventually, the carbon would make its way deep underground where

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1157579383276796902006-09-06T14:49:00.000-07:002006-09-06T14:49:43.280-07:00

So Microsoft released a cool XML viewer editor that was written in .NET 2.0.  Supposedly it will be available on Codeplex with full source in the near future... Check it out:XML Notepad 2006

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So Can Erten has whipped together an extension for Firefox called Live Writerfox that will allow you to easily blog pages that you browse through Firefox using Microsoft Live Writer.

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1157490097940628962006-09-05T14:01:00.000-07:002006-09-05T14:01:37.990-07:00

The answer: Easy. This is a very interesting piece that I came across today regarding our current state of voting machines here in the states.  Apparently Diebold still hasn't learned from their ATM mistakes of years past (remember the cash door that could be lifted just enough to retrieve your money, but not trip the switch?). Cracking a Diebold“A couple of untrained 54-year old women from

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1157072711982491942006-08-31T18:05:00.000-07:002006-08-31T18:05:12.026-07:00

Our friends over at Techdirt reported that Microsoft wants to own the concept of conjugating verbs.  While I'm sure there's more to it (like some cool software that does a better job of it then our Indian call center friends), I have yet to read it and really like the headline.  :) Techdirt: Microsoft Wants A Patent For Conjugating Verbs

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1155874437002805492006-08-17T21:13:00.000-07:002006-08-17T21:13:57.130-07:00

So the piracy war wages on in Sweden.  On the one hand I understand what their intention is, and what their issues are.  I do not hide the face that I believe the DMCA is a horrible piece of legislation, not to mention half the shit in the Patriot Act.  But at the risk of invoking a dedicated Carnivore server to my blog and laptop, I shall cease ramble. Regardless of your persuasion and thoughts

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1155782302310571782006-08-16T19:38:00.000-07:002006-08-16T19:38:22.313-07:00

So all my posts today have been entered using Microsoft's new beta of the Windows Live Writer.  So far I'm quite impressed.  It is a very cool tool that immediately adapted to my blog (on blogger) and gave me a very easy WYSIWYG local environment for blogging. And since they don't (and most likely won't) support Firefox, it might just be enough to make an IE7 user out of me...

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1155782026800630182006-08-16T19:33:00.000-07:002006-08-16T19:33:47.330-07:00

So appearently Dell's burn.  Dell's burn good.  A little while back one caught fire at a conference in Japan.  Bad times. Last month some poor midwestern office worker ran back to his office to find his coworkers dousing his Latitude with flame retardant goodness from their underused fire extinguishers. I returned from lunch to find my old Latitude (D600) running quite warm.  The battery was too

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So apparently HTC’s marketing department isn’t talking to the engineering team.  I’ve been following this thread for awhile (as I was excited to get one of these phones), but alas it looks like all those hopes are gone due to a simple typo. The skinny is this: the MTeoR does NOT support UMTS 1900 or GSM 850 – both of which are important for any US user (especially if you pay a stipend to

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1155772934215083142006-08-16T17:02:00.000-07:002006-08-16T17:27:04.150-07:00

"...62 percent of call center jobs are located in the U.S. and 6 percent in the United Kingdom. Canada and India each have 5 percent of the total market." Does anyone really believe this? I can't count the number of nice folks I've talked to in Canada and India representing Microsoft and Dell - 4 this week actually. Personally, I don't mind them. I talk fast enough for the Indians, and I always

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1155344752883260602006-08-11T18:05:00.001-07:002006-08-16T17:25:24.276-07:00

I normally wouldn't glorify shitty ASUS hardware on my prestigious blog, but there is something about grabbing torrents to a "device" with "remote ordering" that I think is still pretty cool. Did I ever mention the shitty ASUS hardware I bought 8 years ago? New ASUS wireless router has Bittorrent and hard drive built in

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1154725319553949542006-08-04T14:01:00.000-07:002006-08-16T17:26:22.003-07:00

Nice article from our friends at the Economist explaining a bit about the online ad word - past, present and future. While not complete, it's a good overview for all you non-nerd technophiles (of which exactly zed read this). "John Wanamaker, a devoutly Christian merchant from Philadelphia, who in the 1870s not only invented department stores and price tags (to eliminate haggling, since everybody

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1153963282896955892006-07-26T18:21:00.000-07:002006-07-26T18:21:22.963-07:00

Researchers using waves to write on waterOne of the cooler things I've seen today. I'd love to be able to spit out a unicode character to my pool and see a huge letter 'c' right at the surface...

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So Wednesday night I went to the unveiling of the new Tesla Roadster. It is a very, very cool platform - 250HP, making 230 ft/lbs of torque from RPM 0 - 0-60 mph in under 4 seconds. And when you realize that batteries are just getting better and lighter each year, you realize that there is some real potential here for this to be the future of performance cars. They will actually be building

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08807646041609406986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564476.post-1153509694884544502006-07-21T12:21:00.000-07:002006-07-21T12:21:34.970-07:00

A group of people losers recreate the classic game Space Invaders using stop motion and people.Human Space Invaders RecreationA Space Invaders rug by Polish artist Janek Simon called Carpet Invaders is a perfect fit for any high-class collecting retro gamer with money to spend losers.Carpet InvadersAnd by losers, I mean people like me. :)

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As an American that would like to see more legalized gaming (on and offline), I've found this week's events with BETonSPORTS and Mr. David Carruthers very disheartening. Is this really our biggest problem right now? Is this even a problem at all? I gotta believe that the Red States needed a distraction - a bone to chew on - and this was it.I really feel bad for David - sitting in an orange

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Prenatal effect hinted for some gay men - Yahoo! News: "Men who have several older brothers have an increased chance of being gay"Well, I only have one older brother. So does that make me a metrosexual?

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Slashdot | How to Win on Ebay: SnipeThis is what I have been saying (read: doing) for years. 3b4y l33t!

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So I went and saw Internet legends Hurra Torpedo last Saturday at the Roxy in Hollywood. I wasn't going to go at first - didn't think my girl would be into it. Alas, I didin't want to let Fred down though, so I went.Good thing I went - it stands out as my favorite live show ever. Better than Metal Skool (at the Viper Room, Roxy, or Key Club). Better than Tool at the American Legion in

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New Scripps Study Reveals San Andreas Fault Set for the ‘Big One’Bad times. Remember, drink from the top bowl of your toilet first.

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Some of you (ok, none of you) may remember that I posted back in 2004 about a cheap kludge to get around some Earthlink DNS bullshit. Well, it turns out that it may not be Earthlink's fault so much.I'm not going to take the time to vet the blame here, but it seems that if youconfigure Exchange to use your ISP's DNS servers (and not your internal Microsoft DNS server) the problem goes away.Start

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By now I'm sure you've all seen some form of this video, or seen it on the Miller Lite commercial - but do you know (or care even) what's going on behind the scenes?Well, I found some interesting reads about Mr. Carson Williams of Masson, Ohio:His Quasi-Official WebsiteArticle in the Cincinnati EnquirerPlanetChristmas ChatroomLight-o-Rama Controller usedAppearently many folks (including Mr.

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