Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • QotD: Sugar, Sugar

    July 25, 2006
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    What was your favorite candy when you were a kid? How does that compare to now? As a kid, I was into the lollypops the bank gave away. Perhaps part of it was that my dad didn't approve of me getting them. He always let me get it, but some aspect of it was always…

  • Great Job?

    July 25, 2006
    Computers

    BSA collects over $2M in settlements from U.S. companies: The Business Software Alliance (BSA), a watchdog group representing the nation’s leading software manufacturers, today announced it has collected over $2 million in settlements from 19 U.S. companies that were running illegal software. Compare that to this article from the BSA web site earlier this year:…

  • Xeyes

    July 25, 2006
    Computers

    Xeyes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: xeyes is a graphical program showing two eyes which follow the cursor movements on the screen as if they were watching it. Computer nerds are weird…. Okay, I admit it… I am weird.

  • Where is God?

    July 25, 2006
    from LiveJournal, Humor / Weird, Religion / Baha’i Faith

    Two little boys, ages 8 and 10, are excessively mischievous, they are always getting into trouble and their parents know all about it. If any mischief occurs in their town, the two boys are probably involved. The boys’ mother heard that a preacher in town had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if…

  • Size Matters?

    July 24, 2006
    Computers

    Heh… Character-for-character, password length is more important for security than complexity. Requiring complexity but allowing passwords to remain short makes passwords more vulnerable to attack than simply requiring easier-to-remember, longer passwords. Password size does matter I am not sure I understand the debate here. Why can’t it be a little of both? Roger is arguing…

  • Recent Chinese Fortune Cookies

    July 23, 2006
    Uncategorized

    (For me anyway) 1) You are ambitious. 2) Use your abilities at this time to stay focused on your goal. You will succeed. 3) A cheerful message is on its way to you. This message in #3 must be snail mail. Who would send me a message that way? Email or IM it please. Thanks!…

  • Cooking Eggs on a Macbook

    July 21, 2006
    Humor / Weird

    TechEBlog » Cooking Breakfast on a MacBook: Sagags shows us how to put your overheating MacBook to good use by cooking some eggs and warming a cup of coffee. Video clip and instructions after the jump.

  • QotD: Midway Through

    July 21, 2006
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    What's one thing that you hope to do or accomplish before the end of this year? Have my debt paid in full. This has been a long time coming and so very close! Read and post comments | Send to a friend

  • An animal name which starts with “U”

    July 20, 2006
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    At lunch a comment was made that an animal whose name starts with "u" would be a much more difficult challenge than one which starts with "z". So other than "urchin", what ideas do you have? Read and post comments | Send to a friend

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