One of the very first things I learned when I published my first book is that nobody will carry your book without an International Standard Book Number, or ISBN. My book was published for free, but I was charged $35 for the ISBN and the bar code. Today I learned that $35 was not such [...]

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Joseph “Patrick” Cranshaw, who played Joseph “Blue” Palasky in Old School, has passed away of natural causes at. He was 86 years young. Technorati Tags: history, movies

First the NSA got hit because of the horrible sin of having a god damn cookie (the horror!). Now the White House is getting hit because they use a web bug at their main site. A web bug is a picture that is used as a tracking mechanism. When the picture is loaded, it triggers [...]

Photo by Richard Seaman These are much closer than what I have seen over the years. He has a ton of awesome air show pictures here. Technorati Tags: military, technology

I found this movie by accident, while searching for South Park Episode 914, the infamous “Bloody Mary” episode. It was a slow day, so I decided to check out the movie too. Had I known better I would have waited until the weekend, so it would qualify for my Bad Movie Weekend collection. Dammit. This [...]

This is the full text of an email I sent to Comedy Central today: Pulling the episode was a mistake. You had Sarah Silverman singing Amazing Grace out of her ass, and you played that show at least twice in the last 2 weeks. You cannot start pulling shows down just because people gets pissed [...]

Every now and then, Google comes up with something really fucking stupid to post for context-sensitive ads. I was searching Google for “tissue necrosis” since I was reading about brown recluse spiders. Here is Wikipedia’s definition of tissue necrosis: Necrosis (in Greek Νεκρός = Dead) is the name given to unprogrammed death of cells/living tissue [...]

There is a small bug in WP 2.0 that renders the file uploads useless. Adriaan at Ecto posted a quick and dirty fix: Replace line 897: $new_file = $uploads['path'] . “/$filename”; with: $new_file = $upload['path'] . “/$filename”; Then … Replace line 912: return array(‘file’ => $new_file, ‘url’ => $url); with return array(‘file’ => $new_file, ‘url’ [...]

OK, it is December 2005, we are already talking about Web 3.0. By now online payments are at a mature stage, so you can buy pretty much anything online without having to jump through hoops. Hell, when I started my hosting company in 2004, it took me maybe 15 minutes to arrange to have a [...]