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While he doesn’t need the coffin just yet, he’s planning to use the casket as a cooler.
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The problems with XP SP3 range from spontaneous reboots to outright system crashes.
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however some users have run into a variety of problems that have caused frustration. In order to alleviate some of the frustrations, below is an FAQ on various symptoms users have run into, along with solutions and workarounds.
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mVisualVoiceMail will boost the way you are working with your voicemails if you are receiving them as audio file attachments to your e-mail.
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A wiki dedicated to the CHDK firmware add-on for Canon’s Digic II & Digic III cameras
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The Canon Hacker’s Development Kit, aka CHDK, is a firmware enhancement that supports an impressive array of Canon digital cameras.
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Zimbra offers Open Source email server software and shared calendar for Linux and the Mac
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This module provides class 1 and class 2 WebDAV (’Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning’) functionality for Apache.
I took advantage of the weather today to take a quick hike around Oregon Ridge Park this afternoon. I quickly discovered that most of the larger buildings I had photographed the last time we hiked around there had been either razed to the ground or demolished to their foundation. I understand they were probably a safety hazard but its mildly depressing to see bits of history unceremoniously removed.
Lately I keep seeing the commercials for the new Speed Racer movie. Each and every time they open up with the statement ‘From the creators of The Matrix trilogy’. You know, almost as if being the ‘creator’ of The Matrix Trilogy is a good thing.
Lets make this clear. The movie The Matrix, all by itself, was absolutely incredible. The Matrix TRILOGY however, sucked. It ranks right up there with the Highlander/Highlander 2 debacle.
They should drop the ‘trilogy’ bit from the promo and just say The Matrix. Trust me.
First up….
The ‘Indian Baby Dropping Ritual’
Muslims in western India have been observing a bizarre ritual - they’ve been throwing their young children off a tall building to improve their health.
Next….
Man Arrested Trying To Cash $360 Billion Check
Police in Texas said a 21-year-old man was arrested and accused of trying to cash a check for $360 billion.
This wasn’t a case of a guy not knowing how many zeros he put on the end of the check, he actually wrote out Three Hundred and Sixty Billion in the check amount.
Done.
Also, because of a massive avalanche of spam, the Trackback/Pingback features have been disabled (not that anyone was using them).
I just logged onto a local news website and was greeted with the red text stating SEVERE WEATHER WARNING. So of course after what just rolled through Virginia I’m thinking tornadoes, massive thunderstorms or some other kind of weather. I click on the link.
What?! Thats it? FROST?! Frost is now SEVERE WEATHER? Holy crap. Talk about the wussification of America.
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England has been wiped off a map of Europe drawn up by Brussels bureaucrats as part of a scheme that the Tories claim threatens to undermine the country’s national identity.
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A multimillion dollar theme park will open in July in Baghdad. The first section to open will be the skateboard park. 200,000 skateboards will be donated to Iraqi children this summer to enjoy this “Disney” style theme park.
Gather ’round folks as I continue to beat the dead horse that is Blockbuster and Pee-Wee’s big adventure.
Its pretty easy to tell which movies are popular in when you open up the envelope. In some cases the sleeve is so worn and dirty its hard to make out the text describing the disk. So the big question I had was what kind of shape would this thing be in when I opened it? I figured since it took six months for it to be shipped it was probably the only damn copy they had in the system and thus pretty damn worn.
Then again, maybe I forced Blockbuster to buy a new damn movie. This thing didn’t have a single mark/smudge/scratch on it. You could still smell the shrink wrap. It was pretty obvious this was the first time this disk had been sent out. So I guess after five+ months of having that movie sit at the top of my queue someone at Blockbuster threw up their hands and said ‘Screw it! Buy the damn thing and ship it!’ Heh. I win.
Next up, Time Bandits. Five months at the number two spot on the list, now at number one. Current status: Very Long Wait (of course).
So yesterday we found out the names for the boy’s Baseball and the youngest daughters Softball teams.
The Daughter has a infatuation with Lions and Tigers. It borders on a complete obsession really. From screaming ‘LLLLLIIIIIIIIOOONNNNNNNNN!’ so loud it nearly burst my eardrum during the safari at Disney’s Animal Kingdom to sleeping under a mountain of stuffed felines. If I remember correctly her first words were the complete script of ‘The Lion King’. So when she heard that her team was the Detroit Tigers she screamed like…. well, she screamed like a little girl. Once again nearly bursting one of my eardrums.
Later the same day we’re picking up the boy’s uniform and we found out his team name is the Milwaukee Brewers. So after I belt out a nice ‘YES!’ I look over and notice my wife has her face buried in her hands once again (she seems to do that alot when we’re out in public. I haven’t quite yet figured out why). It took a bit of explaining to the boy until he understood why I liked the team name and if you haven’t yet figured out why yourself, just take another look at the title and header graphic for the blog again.
side note: The sponsor of the boy’s team happens to be the local mortician. Oh well… you can’t win ‘em all. At least its not Chico’s Bail Bonds.
Its about damn time. Of course I already rented it via in store exchange three months ago (and it was a hit with the kids), I just kept it in the queue to see how long it would take to actually ship. It’s been sitting at the number one spot for half a year. Ridiculous.
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Microsoft Office 2007, which, when deployed on Windows Vista, consumes more than 12 times as much memory and nearly three times as much processing power as the version that graced PCs just seven short years ago, Office 2000.
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a group of about 20 nerdy libertarian wonk types gathered at midnight on Saturday for a sort of flash mob at the memorial to celebrate the birthday of their favorite founding father. HT: Vees
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Point by point and blow by blow, we offer 10 reasons enterprises can skip Windows Vista and stick with XP
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HPLIP is an HP developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser based printers in Linux.
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beer sales will not be banned in Mackay Stadium after results of a survey found most fans wanted alcohol available at the games.
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It can be confusing. You can go into a state-owned liquor store for alcohol and wine, but no beer. Beer distributors can only sell suds by the case. And restaurants can sell beer to go, but only 2 six-packs at a time.
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“I want my students to understand what goes into craft brewing and craft beer,” Gump said. “There’s nothing wrong with common commercial beer, but craft beer is more flavorful and has more texture.”
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Pa. independent baseball team to unveil statue for O’s legend, but why isn’t he immortalized in Baltimore?
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Almost anybody can pour a beer. But do we really know what we’re doing? Not according to master brewer Andy Rathmann of St. George’s Brewery in Hampton.
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“We have people coming in all the time wanting to buy bottles,” said Sherrill. “Sales won’t be the problem; it’s getting the North Carolina government to allow us to do it.”
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How a BBC Article Noting Temperatures Had Not Increased Since 1998 Became, An Hour and 16 Minutes Later, a Story About the Inevitability of Global Warming
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One of the most influential scientists behind the theory that global warming has intensified recent hurricane activity says he will reconsider his stand.
A couple of weeks ago I vented my frustrations with the del.icio.us website.
Yahoo has been content to let del.icio.us just sit and rot. I haven’t noticed any major enhancements to the site in quite some time. In fact some features, like the blog link posting seem to work worse than ever.
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Forget web 3.0 or even 2.0. Del.icio.us is stuck back in ‘web .5′. Using the site has become more an annoyance than anything else.
Today I ran across an article at TechCrunch which pretty much echoes what i was saying. Once again the Internet finally catches up with me.
Delicious Not Shrinking, But Another Problem Looms
But del.icio.us has bigger problems. It has not changed much in years and cannot seem to get its 2.0 version out the door. This despite the fact that Schachter’s team of engineers has been working diligently on improvements since last September. The new version looked like it was ready to go in January, but then the launch was mysteriously pulled. There are rumors that scalability issues were plaguing the project. Hell, it’s been so long that Delicious 2.0 is news again (and, oh yeah, the periods are going away).
While I still do find del.icio.us a useful service, I don’t use it as much as I once did. The Web has evolved and del.cio.us, for whatever reason, has been held back. Here’s to hoping it can push out Delicious 2.0 before Yahoo gets acquired.
And notice the first part of the headline. ‘Delicious Not Shrinking’. If you read the article, you’ll probably agree that a more accurate headling would be ‘Delicious Not Shrinking, According to Yahoo‘…. who for some reason continue to insist that everything is just peachy.
Very cool.
For our latest mission, we turned a little league baseball game in Hermosa Beach, California into a major league event. Enjoy the video below and then go behind the scenes with our mission report and photos.
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