Monthly Archives: February 2007

I emailed the dude that maintains the mail server today to get me an up to date list of all our mailboxes. Our email gets handled by a 3rd party company so I don’t get access to that box. I … Continue reading →

When I came to work today, one of the desktops in the office was popping up the following message: Norton Antivirus 2006 was unable to start instant messenger scanner. It will be unable to scan instant messenger downloads for infections. … Continue reading →

When I first heard about Idiocracy I really wanted to see it. Then I forgot about it and never did. Perhaps it was because the movie was released without any promotion, or TV ads and ran only in selected theaters. … Continue reading →

Apparently, if you play the brainwashing scene from Not in Portland backwards, you can hear a woman’s voice saying: “only fools are enslaved by time and space”:. yourube link Has anyone else confirmed this? I just want to make sure … Continue reading →

I decided to make a Firefox Search Plugin for this site, mostly because I was wondering how hard would it be. Surprisingly enough, it is a really easy task. You should be able to create one without any experience in … Continue reading →

As you may or may not know, I fucking hate when people put music on their myspace. In fact I actually dislike pretty much every single design choice that was made on that website. I don’t hate the concept – … Continue reading →

If you are a LOST fan like me, go read the Lost and Found article on Entertainment Weekly website. It certainly lifted my spirits regarding the direction the show is taking. I think the gist of it can be summarized … Continue reading →

The people at Insanely Great News decided to celebrate the return of LOST by making bunch of custom Dharma ration labels for their snack food: image © insanely great news How awesome is that? They even provide a PDF for … Continue reading →

I did two things today – I opened up registration for this blog, and created the /forum/. I figured that this might be a little bit more interesting than a shoutbox. Or not… What do you think Travis? Note, you … Continue reading →

This might be old, but it gave me a chuckle: found @ my confined space – original author unknown I banish anything produced by Real™ from any hard drive I touch. Anyone using their proprietary formats to deliver content to … Continue reading →

I can’t tell you how many times this has happened to me: comic © joe and monkey – click for original I’m horrible when it comes to remembering people’s names and other details about them. I took quite a few … Continue reading →

I know that several people from MSU read this blog, so here is a question: why can’t I do VPN when I’m on campus? Whenever I try to establish some sort of ppt connection with the outside world I get … Continue reading →

The problem with these damn 419 letters is that spam filters sometimes don’t catch them. This one is short and sweet – the dude doesn’t even give me imaginative the back story or tell me how many millions of “US … Continue reading →

Steve Ballmer, the loud, sweaty, awkward Microsoft chair tossing machine has a totally lame office: Ballmer’s Desk found @ extralife Embedded image removed upon request of the author I would imagine that a Micro$oft executive would reside in something more… … Continue reading →

They are getting creative or what? This time it’s not a rogue prince, a rich political refuge with a diamond mine, or a wealthy British lady dying from a cancerous stroke. Oh no, this time I won a friken lottery: … Continue reading →

Here is an interesting issue I ran into today. I have a script which creates a local copy of one of the important folders on the server using the xcopy command. To make the long story short, after several “accidents” … Continue reading →

This seems about right: img © luke welling [click on image to enlarge] I think the original author is Luke Welling’s. At least this is as far as I could track it down. And yeah, I know it’s old – … Continue reading →

I don’t know about you but I find this amusing (and relevant to the current political situation): image © defective yeti I think US is the only country in the world in which vast numbers of citizens do not believe … Continue reading →

Ok, this is almost a year old, but still I lol’d: youtube link found @ boingboing Heh, I just glanced at the old Visual Studio box lying on a shelf here and it perfectly mirrors the design ideas outlined in … Continue reading →

Here is a problem I faced. In my thesis I had descriptions of several algorithms that I used. They were essentially written as long numbered lists. Unfortunately because of the way the paper was paged, almost all of them were … Continue reading →

It appears that the website of the Dolphin Stadium (home of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLI) has been compromised, and a malicious trojan downloader was embedded into the website code: img © websense From the source: A link to a malicious … Continue reading →

How many different versions of Vista are there? There is a lot of confusion about this among users. How do you upgrade. Which version is the “good one”? Which one is the best for me? Fortunately, I could not care … Continue reading →

Ok, let’s recap what happened yesterday. Bunch of Mooninite Light-Brights created a mass hysteria, and media outcry in Boston. The officials hunted down the innocent people involved in the viral marketing scheme, arrested them, and sent bunch of media hounds … Continue reading →

Oh Noez! I have committed a thought crime: Naturally, when I saw this sign I had this strange urge to park something (anything really) in that spot. Is that a parking violation or what? Jokes aside, doesn’t that seem a … Continue reading →

There are many jokes about mens room etiquette out there. I’m not really trying to make one here. But there are some things that are just plain common sense. Consider a public restroom with 3 urinals placed uncomfortably close to … Continue reading →