2009 July

VIRUS/MALWARE KIT
You can’t be a serious geek and not need a serious antivirus, anti-malware toolkit.  Go out and buy a usb memory card reader for a few bucks.  Then buy an SD card - great deals are all around on small to large ones.  Make sure you get a locking one.  Put the card in [...]

My amplifier secret weapon is a Fender Pro Junior.  I’m not entirely sure if they’re still in production - mine’s a `94, probably the first series.  The speaker went fairly early on and was replaced with a Mojotone 10″.
The amplifier is stupid simple, even for guitar players.  One input, one volume, one tone, 15 watts.  [...]

The vice president of human resources, upon hearing that I don’t drink, said, “You mean you’re like this without alcohol or drugs?”
Thirty minutes later, when everybody stopped laughing, I started to wonder what could possibly explain it.  We are the sum of our experiences, certainly, but there has to be more.
And then it hit me: [...]

I have to wonder at a show that has a very successful first season, then continues on with a very successful second season, killing off two major characters at the end.  Then they wait well over a year to put out the third `season’, which consists of five episodes, covering five days.
But I’m a hardcore [...]

Let’s get it out up front: I hate Windows.  The only reason I use it is because of the hundreds of others who use it at work.  I have one XP box: the rest run linux.  I cannot describe the hell that is waiting just for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer at the end of [...]

This post ties in with the Dell Debacle of trying to get a simple quote on a Mini 12.  By the title you can guess that Dell never succeeded in providing me with the aforementioned quote so I decided to spend my money elsewhere (not that Dell gives a flying skippy).
The criteria: two units needed [...]

Coca-Cola Tests Carbonated Milk In Europe
Also testing carbonated oil and carbonated urine.  Tests expected to be short in duration.
iPhone Factory Worker In China Commits Suicide Over Missing Device
I’d commit suicide if I worked at the iPhone factory and lost my Treo too.
Ryan Reynolds Loved Getting Naked With Sandra Bullock During Filming
It came as quite a [...]

There is a big scandal in New Jersey.

Another one, you say?
This one is about selling organs.  It would appear that while it is ok to sell ova or sperm, it is not ok to sell an organ.  More accurately, selling an organ has been criminalized, much like recreational pharmaceuticals.
Sorry, Charlie, the Founding Fathers intended you [...]

Although this comes from the BBC, it might as well have come from NBC.  A study has shown that general practitioners are not doing well at spotting depression in their patients.
The timing is ironic, especially in light of someone’s blog mentioning a six million dollar study to determine that texting while driving is dangerous.  Was [...]

There’s a rare interesting broadcast television show called Lie to Me.  The protagonists study body language to help police by determining the veracity of the statements.  In other words, they’re human lie detectors.
There was a commercial for the next show.  I have to break my own rule about not discussing reality shows to fire off [...]