Archived Entries for Miscellaneous

March 24, 2004

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAC OS X

3 years ago today Mac OS 10.0 Beta was released to the world, and has forever changed the face of computing....

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June 07, 2004

Apple with another amazing music innovation!

Well, the tech world is a-buzz about another apple innovation! And this time they have really impressed me. They have released the AirPort Express basestation. I am usually one of the first to adopt new technology, and this is...

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June 15, 2004

All My Apps, are Belong to Us!

Here is a list of all the applications that I have on my Powerbook. Some come and go every day, but this is what I have as of 06-15-2004. Acquisition A very slick looking P2P client running the Gnutella network...

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October 05, 2004

What is Kludge?

After a converstaion with a friend at work I realized that I (am quite geeky and) use some language that others may not be familiar with. So, with that conversation in mind, here is the internet definition of Kludge taken...

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October 24, 2004

Don't Trust the SpyWare

Since I don’t use windows machines all that often I don’t have the pleasure of these wonderful things popping up all the time, if they even have the courtesy of doing that....

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November 02, 2004

Amazing Ammounts of Reading Through RSS

Scooble said in a posting today: ÒMan, that’s tough. I read 2200 blogs, 955 feeds, more than 1500 items an eveningÓ Wow, and I thought that I was covering some serious ground by having 115 subscriptions. Most of which I...

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November 07, 2004

Desktop Images

I get a lot of questions about where I find all the cool desktop images that I use on my personal & work computers. I usually have to go on some long-winded explination about where I find them and where...

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February 08, 2005

God's Lawyer?

Slashdot has a discussion about the increasing problems with having computers in cars. (Slashdot | If The Problem Persists, Reboot The Car). Normally this would just go into the liked articles bit but I thought that this was too funny...

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Ultra Resolution Photos

A while ago I posted a link to the Giga-Pixel project. Wired news has posted an interesting bit about the man behind the project. Completely amazing, a picture that fills a complete DVD. Definitely not for use on web pages...

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February 22, 2005

3M & Effective Advertising

ummm… holy crap! this is confidence in your product! found on: (Signal vs. Noise)...

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April 12, 2005

gapingvoid a Cool Blog

I have been reading gapingvoid for quite some time now, and you should be too. gapingvoid: Aaaargh...

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April 22, 2005

Links on 4-22-2005

I have amassed a huge list of links since the changes to this website and well without further adue: DELICIOUS BLOG: Import your iTunes into Library Delicious Library is an excellent app Check it out! Domestic life (kottke.org) Stumbling through...

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May 11, 2005

Courage

I just thought that this was really cool when I stumbled across it. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) source...

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May 27, 2005

Ultimate Ears

ultimate ears - how music is meant to be heard These are some really cool headphones but $900, come on guys this is a little out of the range of the average consumer. via: scoble...

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May 29, 2005

Don' t Get Your Ass Kicked

The Chris Rock show is one of the funniest things on TV right now. A friend sent me this link; Chris Rock on: How to NOT get your ass kicked. LMAO...

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July 08, 2005

Blogging Humor

If these words were people, I would embrace their genocide. This is some really funny shite about blogging and one guy’s complete irritation with blog related buzz words. If the thousands of mid-sentence links don’t annoy you, the long slender...

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latin quotes

I have a real (weird) thing for quotes. Here are some really cool Latin quotes that I came across the other day while surfing. Enjoy… Audere est facere - To dare is to do. (Motto of Tottenham Hotspur) Audentes fortuna...

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July 18, 2005

Where is my book?

Like a good little geek, I pre-ordered my copy of Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince. Acording to the Amazon website (I know Amazon=Evil) it shipped last Wednesday — July 13th. I have still not recieved it. There is...

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August 03, 2005

Blingo Was It's Name-o

this is a little weird, but everyone’s favorite search engine, Google, is powering another search engine by the name of “Blingo”. The unique thing about this engine is that you can win prizes such as an iPod or a Sony...

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August 05, 2005

Word for the Day?

I get the word of the day from M-W.com. Here is today’s word, kind of interesting. The Word of the Day for August 5 is: small beer SMAWL-BEER noun 1 : weak or inferior beer *2 : something of small...

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August 18, 2005

Angry Roomba

Aparently at some point in the recent past my Roomba and my lamp had a fairly torrid affair that ended poorly. The other day when I came home I found my lamp keeled over and shattered on the floor...

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September 09, 2005

The Chili Cook Off

There are countless joke emails floating around, most are fairly un-funny. This however is just plain drop-dead laughing, make your cheeks hurt and cry funny. Like the letter to me said, “If you are not crying by the end of...

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February 23, 2006

A 500kv switch fails

I have been facinated by some of the videos available on Google’s video service. Here is one that I was quite… shocked by? Anyway it is fairly impressive, check it out....

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February 24, 2006

Only the most incredible street race ever!

My brother introduced me to the Getaway in Stockholm videos last year. They are really incredible, if you’re into that sort of thing. “That thing” being illegal street racing. Here is one of a motorcyclist that goes by GhostRider and...

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June 06, 2006

National Day of Slayer: June 6, 2006 (6/6/6)

And then there was Slayer! Happy 6-6-6 everybody! I just wanted to pop back in here and let everyone know that today is not only the release date of not only the new Omen movie, which by the way looks...

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July 09, 2006

Congratulazioni l'Italia

2006 World Cup - Italy wins wow…...

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July 20, 2006

Best Billboard Ever!

Ok, this is only the best billboard EVER! It’s from this site titled “That Girl Emily”; a humourous rant about this woman who found her husband cheating and is really getting back at him systematically & methodically....

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