Ipod Nano Battery Life Weirdness
Not all that long ago, like a month, I bought my wife an iPod Nano 2 GB. Both of us have PCs as our primary computers. I have a Mac but its a heavily upgraded blue and white G3 (now a G4 500 MHz thank...
View ArticleVista Home Basic is a Lemon?
Ok, so I’m asking myself how is this news? I mean, what do you expect from a company like Microsoft? If you don’t pay for the gold you only get brass. It’s like if you buy the standard version of...
View ArticleTake The Blasphemy Challenge
Humm, all you have to do is upload a clip of yourself saying that you don’t believe in god and you get swag. Not a bad proposition, eh? It’s like saying that you have a firm disbelief in unicorns,...
View ArticleBastard Operator From Hell
I’m going to show my age on this one, I can tell. I remember first reading about the BOFH (Bastard Operator From Hell) back in the early mid 90’s while browsing through the posts on the good old...
View ArticleParking Aid For Social Harmony
In an effort to undoubtedly promote social harmony amongst people who park their cars, my friend Kevin (aka Dusty Weasle) has come up with a simple to deploy universal sign that you can place on...
View ArticleRFID Stapler, Office Products of the Beast?
Looks like a fine idea to me, I’d love to be able to sweep a scanner over a stack of papers and find out if a lost report is in it. Oh yeah, don’t let the title of the post fool you. That ‘xxx of the...
View ArticleUS Postal Service Removes Clocks to Speed Up Time, WTF?
Normally I’d make a long winded rant about the piss poor service I have been getting at my local post offices lately but I see little point in it. Lets just say that if the overlords at the USPS would...
View ArticleReality Television, Friend or Foe?
Vh1 seems to be taking over the world. First we have Flavor of love then Flavor of love 2 then a spin off I love New York and yet another spin off has been released Charm school. Our form of...
View ArticleValidity of Information, How to Be A BS Detective
When I think about how easy it is to find information on the Internet I have to pause to wonder just how accurate is that information? Back in the day you had to go to a library or dust off a volume of...
View ArticleHow To Spot Chain E-mail FUD
Everyone gets email these days. Most of the time it’s stuff you want, confirmation of an order made online, notes from a friend, amusing photos from a coworker. Stuff you want and know that it’s on the...
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