Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Recently I posted about having entered a video in a contest. However I wasn't alone, my wife also entered. Her video was considerably different from mine.
I went for using some special effects and what I think is a hilarious ending while she had a great song and a ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Are either lying to us or they're totally incompetent. That's the only conclusion that I can draw. Why would I say such a thing? Well, in the course of my reading today I ran across a most fascinating little gem over on the Popular Mechanics site.
There I ...
Posted in Misc, Tech, opinion | 2 Comments »
Friday, October 24th, 2008
I haven't done a whole lot of contest entering in my days, mostly because the odds were so long that winning wasn't even remotely an option that could be considered real. Then again, even I will get a lottery ticket once in a while because while it's true that ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
I read that there's this huge group of spammers, a spamming botnet made up of an estimated 35,000 compromised computers and able to send upwards of ten Billion emails a day, being shut down. You'd think that with something that large being shut down that I and many others ...
Posted in Computers, Internet, Misc | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
I read recently that YouTube (and their Google puppet-masters) are working on a deal to bring full length television shows to the screens of YouTube viewers everywhere. I have to admit that there's a certain advantage to using the computer to watch ... no HDMI wall plate to install, ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Government types would have us believe that the new "E Passports" are perfectly secure and that there's no problem with them at all. They spend a lot of time and money trying to make sure that everyone believes this and goes along with it, blindly assuming that the RFID ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Realnetworks new RealDVD program has been causing quite a stir which has now landed in the courtrooms. Hollywood in general, movie studios (can the MPAA be far away? I doubt it.) are all trying to stop the sale of this software that allows people to copy the contents of ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
There's been some great combinations over the years. Abbot and Costello, Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon, Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz, Finicky cats in commercials for cat supplies and their favorite foods, spam cheese & tomato sandwiches, ice cream & chocolate sauce, Shatner & Nimoy, Denny Crane & Alan ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
The UN, the NSA, and others are talking about a change to Internet Protocols that would implement "IP Traceback" which would make it difficult, if not impossible, to be anonymous online.
The big noise they're making to justify it is how anonymity is often abused and used for criminal purposes. ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Recently I've decided that I was going to be changing the way I do the occasional website review. I decided that instead of settling with just writing about a site that I would also do a video review in which I could point out the positive and negative points ...
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