Category: Computers


  • Nerd Gym

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    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?

  • FreeBSD

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    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.

  • “By attempting to protect ourselves from viruses we are preventing the realization of artificial intelligence. So we should open all of our ports and remove the logins.” — J This was sarcasm, I think. I did find it very amusing.  

  • This is newly posted in my work web site’s guest book. “Guest book spammers whose message contains any form of advertisement for a web site I deem to be commercial will find the entry deleted at MY convenience.” Sorry… I don’t like being spammed. I get close to a thousand emails a day. I consider spam…

  • Two days in a row I have gotten emails that look like people testing whether or not I have a legitimate email address. Wish there was a plugin for my email program in which my filter could use to send a fake bounce message. The database works!! I actually connected to it. Now to create…

  • Is this the book club for militia members? It has such classic titles like: “The SAS Self-Defense Handbook”, “The SAS Fighting Techniques Handbook”, “Handguns 2002”. It just needs to add germ warfare and how to make an atomic bomb to really unmask the true nature of the book club. Maybe this is just me, but I…

  • I dunno. This thing is pretty kewl, but I am so used to Pitas. The having to switch views to write HTML can get really annoying really quick. It is faster though. Has lots of features. This is February… one would think that it is supposed to be, I don’t know… COLD maybe? Right… I feels…