Get to work on a Saturday. Gotta love firewalls. They block what ever they are configured to intercept… such as TTF files attached to emails. Anyone getting 20 copies a day of the Klez worms? I base my popularity on how many viruses I get from people. Since some of the recent ones like Magistr,…
Kinda thinking about this post by Vixenz. I wonder why the 7 wonders of the modern world (the 1918 one) went away from landmarks? I agree that some inventions are much more significant than any ole landmark, but I think landmarks deserve their own list. Saw a show on plans to build an arcology-like structure in Hong Kong Bay. This…
Anyone want to be a cyborg? Yeah, it is only a chip at this stage, but they can measure impulses through the nerve directly. Which means you can correlate the behavior to actions directly. This impulse has these properties and caused this behavior. Repeat for each impulse. Then you can say after time, this kind of…
Windows XP sux. I like Windows 2000 better. Much better. One of the things that annoys me is how IE6 behaves. When I click on a link, the text on that line becomes smaller. Huh? Why? Think I am going to phase out this blog site. Maybe make it my backup for my Xanga site. Anyway,…
I like Mozilla. Found Blogzilla, a blog by one of the developers. He had all kinds of tricks. My favorite is the ability to reject pictures from known advertisers. With the right click menu I can add to this list.
Why buy a PDA which can play MP3s when you can buy an iPod and make the iPod behave like a PDA? (Wired) Up your security. Web surfers brace for pop-up downloads(CNET) Got an ex you want to trash in front of the whole world? exso is for you… Want to know how nerds stay skinny? The Nerd Gym!!…
An Unfair opt-out policy makes strike 2 for Yahoo. Actually, I would like to count removing the free POP email access as 3 strikes. If they had asked would I be willing to pay for POPping my email, then they would have learned that am I not. No one I have discussed this with seems…
Why is it that every time I turn around these online advertisers have yet another trick up their sleeves?
Going to install FreeBSD and some flavor of Linux on a workstation. Fun! This is to attempt to get closer to the environment in which this project I am working on was originally developed.