RSS can be used for many more things, not just to syndicate web articles. Over the last week or so I have started moving some of my routine reading to a news aggregator whenever such a feed is available. My reasoning for this move is since I already block ads thru a hacked hosts file, [...]

… and Microsoft is a Cheap Whore Charles Miller wrote what so far I see as the simplest, most interesting and accurate description I have seen about the differences in your interaction with a Windows PC and a Mac. He goes on to describe the Windows PC as the cheap whore with the painted face, [...]

I decided to end my self-imposed movie-going hiatus by going to see the one movie that pretty much every reviewer I have come across has hated it with a passion, The Day After Tomorrow. This movie is pretty much a two-hour long orgy of destruction, slightly disguised to look like a real movie with a [...]

Back in September last year our 1997 Dodge Stratus cost us an arm and a leg in repairs. $836 to be exact. Today Ivette took the car back to get the oil changed, to recharge the air conditioner and to have the brakes checked. $700 before tax. Goddamit. Worse, that is not the final figure, [...]

Day three of my experiment to see if RSS makes more sense than surfing the web for stuff I read on a daily basis

A different kind of show… (spoilers warning) First of all, I owe an apology to one of my friends (you know who you are, you live in the Carolinas and your boat has a girly name). My friend told me he stopped watching the show because it was too stressful. I guess I know how [...]

We have too many sloppy asp programmers that write code as if they expect it to go away forever, never to be revised, modified and/or updated. This article explains how to write SQL statements for asp usage that will make sense to you (and your replacement) a year or two down the road. We have [...]

This is a radio controlled B-52, 23′ wingspan and powered by 8 turbines, I WANT ONE Pictures* from the Scale Heli Forum: Look at that big sonofabitch: And yes, it flies! More pictures at the Scale Heli Forum. *Pictures (c) their respective owners.

Citizen reports of dive-bombing Cicadas start arriving … From Craig’s List: To the little fucker who dive bombed me on my way to lunch. You retarded, blind, little shit. You flew into the back of my ear while I was crossing the street! People laughed and pointed while I had, what looked like, an epileptic [...]

Is it worth it going over and over to your favorite web sites instead of reading their RSS feed? A friend has been badgering me for a long time with switching to RSS to read stuff that I follow on a daily basis. I tried RSS in the past and was not too excited about [...]