Monthly Archives: November 2006

My Samsung A670 has a little dust problem. The phone has a transparent window on the faceplate that reveals a secondary LCD which is usually used to display a clock and/or caller ID details. The faceplate window surface and the … Continue reading →

I seriously hate the Bloglines plumber! :evil: I hope he gets AIDS and dies! Anal cancer is also good – he can also get that. Can you think of a more annoying maintenance graphic? I mean, what is wrong with … Continue reading →

Ladies and gentelmen, here is another IP address to put in your .htaccess deny list: 209.160.72.10 This IP apparently belongs to hopone.net which looks like a legitimate company. I was surprised to see that this machine is accessible from the … Continue reading →

By now I think everyone knows that Darth Rummsfield is out. He has left the building, he is gone, he is history! Wohoo! Please queue up the “Ding Dong the Which is Dead” tune and start the celebratory gyrations! But … Continue reading →

Can anyone guess what is this thing? It sits in the mens room at my work. Try guessing what the hell it is, because first time I saw it I was stumped. Or perhaps I’m just sheltered and everyone who … Continue reading →

How do you force to put page breaks in specific sections when you print a web page? The sat truth is that it is not always possible. But if you can guarantee that your visitors will be using a modern … Continue reading →

You gotta love Foxtrot for asking these deep questions: click to see the original This is your homework for today – go home and ponder this. I typed up this long insightful thing about this question really being a question … Continue reading →

Here are some interesting links I picked up from an assortment of my feeds: Electronic voting machine failures cause delays in hundreds of precincts GOP candidate uses Federal Emergency Alert system to air his advertisement on stations who were not … Continue reading →

I think that Microsoft finally found a way to potentially slow down the rapid growth of Linux based solutions. Their deal with Novell clearly aims at creating a two tier Linux market. One tier would be the SUSE products, endorsed … Continue reading →

How to browse the web while maintaining your privacy and confidentiality (at least to some extent)? The quick answer is use onion an routing protocol such as Tor that will encrypt your connections, and use a number of proxy nodes … Continue reading →

I was buying some Dell Latitude laptops for my company today, and I noticed a relatively new option in their system configuration page: click for full size For $10 Dell will now partition your hard drive for you! Resizing a … Continue reading →

I revised and automated my old Geek Test so that now it automatically tallies tour score, and insults you when appropriate. Simply check the boxes when appropriate and then press the button to get your score.

I thought this was kinda awesome: youtube link; found via prezwho.com Is this stuff for real? I don’t really care. I want it to be real! Part of me wants to go get some electronic equipment there and monitor the … Continue reading →

Don’t play this drinking game unless you want to die: comic © thootpastefordinner.com Don’t try this at home kids… [tags]drinking game, fox news, liberal, politics, funny[/tags]

I went to see it yesterday, and I liked it. Look under the review for a random commentary. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan I have never really watched the Ali G. Show so … Continue reading →

I think that Lost has lost it’s focus in Season 3. In the first two seasons the writers concentrated on building these wonderful, complicated characters with strange back stories, own agendas, motives and desires. The show was all about them, … Continue reading →

Marketing 101: choosing a product name that is a homonym with a deadly disease is a poor business move: Google Video Link I wonder if Matt and Tray were inspired by this commercial when they wrote that South Park episode … Continue reading →

This is priceless: found @ myconfinedspace.com; author unknown If you don’t get the reference, go educate yourself! [tags]calvin and hobbes, trigun, vash the stampede[/tags]

I have been asked about the mysterious Scroll Lock key. Despite the popular belief it is not entirely useless. It’s functionality however depends on platform, and software you are running. Here are some of the more useful features of Scroll … Continue reading →

Here is what happens when you combine the two most awesome animals in the universe – a monkey and a penguin. You get a friken monguin: image © biro-art.com Ok, so this is not a sharemonkey but it is still … Continue reading →

There was a dude here at my work most of the morning pentesting our network. It’s actually kinda cool. I think that having someone enumerate the most obvious gaping holes in your security setup is a really good thing. Once … Continue reading →