As of a minute ago, my stats say I have driven 897.80 miles in Test Drive Unlimited: Car: 793.37 miles Bike: 104.39 miles Total: 897.80 miles This is MORE than what I have driven in real life over the past year. I have not driven to work in over 5 years, since my last two [...]

There are two basic issues when using WordPress to run your own blog: 1. It costs money. 2. You are stuck doing all the work, including upgrades, adding templates, etc. The WordPress folks figured this out a while ago, and came out with a multi-user version of WP that can be used to run thousands [...]

I just noticed that some asshole with nothing better to do with his time has written some kind of harvester that picks up headlines from WP sites, pulls a summary, makes it a quoted post and sends a trackback to the targeted blog. The best part is that if you visit the blog launching the [...]

From Dead Rising (Xbox 360). The picture looks like crap because of the TV, not because of the camera or the game. (deadrising, frank, hockey, mask, prisoner, orange) “Frank with felt hat, hockey mask, prisoner garb” by pvera Testing 1001‘s posting from Flickr into Ecto. Technorati Tags: flickr

Norway declares Apple’s iTunes illegal – Financial Times – MSNBC.com: Apple was dealt a blow in Europe on Wednesday when Norway’s powerful consumer ombudsman ruled that its iTunes online music store was illegal because it did not allow downloaded songs to be played on rival technology companies’ devices. The decision is the first time any [...]

Google announces overhaul of Google Video strategy, plans for YouTube’s future When Google bought YouTube back in the fall of 2006, questions immediately arose: Is this the end of Google Video? Would Google integrate YouTube into the Google experience, or would it remain separate? Today Google announced that Google Video will be transformed from today’s [...]

E! News – And Van Halen Will Rock – Van Halen | Sammy Hagar It turns out David Lee Roth was right. Not about fashion sense or talk radio, mind you, but about the inevitability of a Van Halen reunion. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-bound band—Roth included—is now thisclose to inking a deal [...]

The final obvious issue I see with WordPress 2.1 is that it reshuffles the IDs of your categories. This is of no bearing to 99% of the users out there. The problem is if for example you are using a WP tag to pull items for just one category, and this is done by ID. [...]

I just got this error in Google Reader:

Ford posts worst loss in its history – Yahoo! News DEARBORN, Mich. – Ford Motor Co. lost $5.8 billion in the fourth quarter amid slumping sales and huge restructuring costs, pushing the automaker’s deficit for the year to $12.7 billion, the largest in its 103-year history. The annual loss reported Thursday surpassed its previous record [...]