2008 July

Yes, you heard that right - the Place to Get Your Porn Stolen will soon be a Bitchin Place to Get a Guitar.
Stomachs (and eardrums) are already rattling.
Can you imagine the effect of some tone-deaf thirteen year old playing whatever today’s Stairway to Heaven is at airplane decibel levels will have on the poor sucker [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s budget deficit will surge past a half-trillion dollars next year, according to gloomy new estimates, a record flood of red ink that promises to force the winner of the presidential race to dramatically alter his economic agenda.
The deficit will hit $482 billion in the 2009 budget year that will be [...]

Aliens have contacted humans several times but governments have hidden the truth for 60 years, the sixth man to walk on the moon has claimed.
Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, said he was aware of many UFO visits to Earth during his career with NASA but each one was covered up.
Dr Mitchell, 77, said during [...]

Working in MIS for most of my computer life, I have always wanted to maintain a balance between the knowledge haves and the knowledge have-nots.  One cannot rightfully expect a coworker to be able to program in C++ (one cannot rightfully expect anyone from MIS to explain it either).  By the same token, there has [...]

Most people who have tried to install linux on a laptop know that it’s not the easiest thing in the world to accomplish.  It can go decently or it can be extremely painful.  It’s not as difficult as trying to convince the IRS you don’t owe money, but perhaps slightly more difficult than paying for [...]

Don’t even begin to deny you’re reading this.  It’s OK… it’s human nature.
It’s probably all over the media, a fact with which I’d be better acquainted if I checked out local media. As I understand it, someone threw a sex party. There were underage girls and boys in the fourteen-plus range. There were two adult [...]

Here’s some booty from my surfing tonight:
Pill identifier - need to know what that pill you found is?
App-Stick - free portable software for your usb stick  (also check out portableapps.com)
Videofetcher - search 100 popular video sites simultaneously
Speed up bittorrent downloads (basic or advanced)
Sheer genius - coffee clip: measure and closer
Microsoft error code lookup tool
Inside the [...]

Every now and then, some site will put up their piece on file manager replacements.  This particular one belongs to Lifehacker.  I’m posting this because Lifehacker is one of my favorite sites of all time.  You’ll always get good information, as well as the privilege of reading the arugments comments.
This article is a call for [...]

I haven’t spent enough time on the actual topic of the blog, thermionic emissions.  This simply refers to vacuum tubes and the way they operate.
Two weeks back I attended a hamfest outside of Philly.  For the uninitiated, this is sort of an electronic flea market for radio, audio, and computer people.   It does not refer, [...]

According to Gibson anyway, here’s a list of popular left-handed guitarists.
Some you’ll know instantly, some you might recognize, some will be a complete mystery.  Quite frankly, I don’t know how a certain dead one made it to the list with the description ’superb guitarist.’  Even his fans will tell you he wasn’t.
Also interesting to note [...]