Veraperez.com, creators of Pedro Vera’s Web Log, have announced their intent to purchase “Electric Sheep v. Jack Bauer” (also known as the “Replicant Blog”) in a stock-only transaction. At its current market capitalization, this purchase price represents 30 times the Replicant’s monthly revenues. The owner(s) of the Replicant declined to discuss these plans in public.. [...]

Metro started to test their 8-car trains for the morning commute on the Orange Line. This may not sound like a big deal, but it is a 25% increase in capacity, which is always welcome. Why is this a problem to begin with? The Metro system was designed for 8-car trains, the problem is the [...]

A disclaimer: I am a news freak. I love news. My dad burned into my head that a man should know WTF is going on around the world. News are awesome. My problem is with the misuse of the “breaking news” category. Right now CNN is displaying a one-inch tall red banner across ALL of [...]

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Charlie Demerjian at the Inquirer wrote a really damn good piece on the current craziness about CPU errata: From Errata articles are the current rage: RECENTLY, THERE have been a couple of articles on errata making the rounds, the first on Intel, the second on AMD. They both make my head hurt. A lot. No, [...]

Quadruple-plot-twist whodunit with Samuel L. Jackson, Ashley Judd and Andy Garcia. Hotshot chick detective almost gets killed while breaking a case, gets promoted and moved to homicide, then all shit breaks lose: she sleeps with a guy and the guy shows up dead the next day. At least the guys died happy. Not a bad [...]

One of the worst things about being a geek is that you need to follow over 50 web sites every day just for survival. This does not include the web sites that you follow because they are cool, I am talking about the sites that list developments that affect your job, new technologies, security issues, [...]

Seems I have offended the gods, because when I went to get my coffee fix this morning, I tried to use the Starbucks pods that Ivette bought me last night and I could not make them work. BTW, there is no science in brewing coffee with pods. You put the pod (a small paper disc [...]

I just generated the following through a, well, a generator: My dotcom predictions for 2006 Last year I made several predictions that now seem ridiculously retarded. But a few ideas were pretty close. I’ve got a feeling that 2006 will be a big year, and here are some of the reasons why: 1. A Palo [...]

PVP are my initials, but for some reason it is also (c) Scott Kurtz There is not a single coffee pod in the Reston, Virginia area unless you buy it at a Starbucks. Why? Because I drank them all. And no, it is no joke. There is not a single god damn pack of Senseo [...]