Seriously, when your own security system tells on you, you’re doing evil. Nice work, Google. “Of the 383 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 11 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-06-26, and the last [...]
Archive of posts tagged Technology
Ever wonder how the machines are supposed to turn us into batteries?
As expected, we’ll do it for them… Power from Glucose Scientists have implanted the first functional glucose biofuel cell in a living animal. Unlike batteries that supply power to implants, a power-generating device may not have to be surgically removed and replaced, because glucose is a potentially limitless source of energy.
A tool to split an MP3 into pieces
I use Juice to download a couple of radio talk shows in MP3 format. Every night before bed I copy Fred Thompson, Mark Levin, and Power Line (when they do a show) to a flash drive to listen to on the way to and at work. Yeah, if I was one of the cool kids, [...]
Impressed
I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s hit “reply” to a newsletter, just knowing that my words would fall on deaf ears, but needing to get a gripe off my chest. Generally, whatever brings me to that point also leads me to cancel my subscription to that newsletter. Case in point: I’ve subscribed to [...]
Life imitates Cartoons
It’s like the opener for a nice piece of slapstick: a 15 year old fucking moron walks into an open manhole… It was an accident waiting to happen — an open sewer and a 15-year-old girl who was texting while she walked. Alexa Longueira, a high school sophomore, was walking along Victory Boulevard near [...]
Shopping for a new laptop?
Okay, so while I’ve been tempted by the rash of “Netbooks” on the market, I soon realized that there were a number of decent laptops on the market for not that much more. I’m open to suggestions, but I’m doing my own research and reading to find not only the best bang for my buck, [...]
WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane”
A very nice update – not much changed from the visitor’s standpoint (basically, nothing!), but the admin bits are very nice. This little “Quickpress” editor could have a few more features, but it’s quite a handy way to drop in a short note. WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane”
Amazing Chinese Prognostication
These guys are amazing! China space mission article hits Web before launch – Yahoo! News BEIJING – A news story describing a successful launch of China’s long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground. … The arcticle, dated two days [...]
“Never discuss religion or politics in polite company”
But since I know you all so well, and I don’t remember any of you accusing me of being polite… I present more random thoughts on religion. (this article was written in my religion wiki, some formatting may not carry through – feel free to read the original, currently at the bottom of the “general” [...]
Customer Service: The Good and the Bad
I am pleased enough with this transaction, I want to share. Here’s the comment I just posted to ResellerRatings: Wrong item was shipped (I believe the problem is the manufacturer part number mix-up, not NewEgg’s error), called for RMA. Explained similar problem I have still not resolved with another company, CSR was *very* sympathetic and [...]
Sometimes even the good guys send spam
Just a minor rant, as I clean out the trap of another spam filter (gmail, this time) Awhile back, I had subscribed to the MinutemanHQ.com (link deliberately left out, if you want some of this, find it yourself) newsletter. All was fine for quite some time, but then I noticed I started getting the same [...]
This all seems so eerily familiar:
24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
MP3′s on USB – anywhere!? Why is this so hard to find?
Not my usual type of post, but I found this odd: I’m on the go a lot, between work and home and the time on the road between the two. Radio reception around here sucks, and I have no desire to subscribe to yet another service just to listen to decent talk radio. I solved [...]
Scary but true… IRS is as stupid as you think
Do they hire morons off the street to work at the IRS? Sure looks like it… IRS bureaucrats duped into exposing passwords According to a report released Friday (PDF) by the Treasury Department’s inspector general, 60 percent of a sampling of 102 Internal Revenue Service employees, when contacted by government auditors posing as help-desk employees, [...]