I love my wife and kid, but sometimes it drives me up a wall how time and time again she completely fails to take the logical course of action. Case in point: over the last week or so P.J. has developed an obsession with those old-fashioned Radio Flyer pull wagons. We wanted to buy him [...]

This is a new show on Showtime that I missed during the ruckus at the end of Six Feet Under. The gimmick of the show is simple: a widow in a cookie-cutter yuppie development in Southern California needs to figure out a way to make money so she can maintain her standard of living. Why [...]

… to link to a CNN article from July 18 that for some reason was put back on the CNN home page. Even worse: I read it when it came out, and I did not recognize it until I was reading the last third. God damn them. This is almost as bad as Slashdot.

Right now I am starting to see a disturbing trend: you just can’t get a neutral or positive headline on Slashdot if it is about Google. Anytime Google is mentioned it is in bad light. It is getting bad enough that they are even taking it easier with their Microsoft-bashing, something pretty unbelievable. What’s the [...]

What in the hell is going on over at FOX? I just found out (by accident) that FOX has decided to not order the last six episodes of The Inside, which is the most clever TV crime drama I have seen since the very first season of CSI: Vegas. It is obvious they did not [...]

Seems my side gig as a domain registrar is starting to become popular, because my domain provider lowered most of my wholesale costs. Here is the new pricing scale: Extension Pricing Per Year .com USD 8.74 .net USD 8.74 .org USD 8.74 .info USD 8.74 .biz USD 8.74 .us USD 8.74 .name USD 8.74 .in [...]

So this spammer sends me a Nigerian Scam Letter on the worst possible day of the week: From Desk of Mr. Denis Kusa. Director of Accounting Department Ecobank. Lome-Togo. E-mail: deniskusa3@walla.com Dear Sir/Madam, This letter is not intended to cause any embarrassment in whatever form, rather it is intended to contact your esteemed self following [...]

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Google has started a (beta as usual) instant messenger + voice network based on the Jabber/XMPP standard. They provide a client but only for Windows as usual. You only need their client for voice, if you just want to use it as an IM network then all you need is a Jabber/XMPP chat client like [...]

Source: CNN/AP Pat Robertson, a “man of God,” has asked the U.S. to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, an action in clear violation of Executive Order 11905 signed by President Ford and affirmed by Presidents Carter and Reagan. 5(g) Prohibition on Assassination. No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to [...]