Archives » May, 2008

Pictures of Indianans and Indiana

I have uploaded a slew of photos, including a few of the kids, up onto my flickr.com account.  You can view a slideshow of the images here.  I’m pretty proud of the elephant pictures for some reason.  The Lioness image was taken at the www.exoticfelinerescuecenter.org/.  Well worth going to, even if its in the middle [...]

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MediaDefender = Spawn of Satan

No matter how you feel about digital rights management, copyright issues or peer-to-peer networks MediaDefender, a ‘company’ out of California runs a shady business helping companies ‘preserve’ their data on peer-to-peer networks.  MediaDefender took down Revision3’s servers over the long weekend because of various problems - but read this article and judge for yourself - [...]

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That’s The Fork Calling the Knife Cutlery

In what is an ironic twist of science meets computers meets religion a “scientist” used a “computer program” to determine the origins of “religion” in “Michigan”. You can read an article about it here if you want to. I’ll pick some excerpts to poke holes in or poke fun of below in case [...]

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Stay Away From My Space

A friend’s friend’s mom [you have to love indirection] used MySpace to email (which isn’t technically email) to ask if the friend’s employer, a clothing store, had any new nightgowns in stock. That can only be more awkward if its your own mother. Note to world: children and their friends, no matter their age, should [...]

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Jank

My computer is borked.  The puke that Abby gave it on Saturday makes it ‘exciting’ to use because periodically it will just reboot itself.  The puke is the deliverer of Funk and fortunately there is some Wagnalls coming because the fine people at the Apple store will be able to restore it to a normative [...]

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