January 2008
January 1 TCP/IP →
The new Google logo celebrates a milestone invention leading to the mondern Internet. TCP/IP is…
Toys”R”Us Offering Wii “Bend Over” Bundle →
Toys”R”Us has just gone above and beyond the call of corporate greed. In an effort to take advantage of every consumer interested in purchasing the popular Nintendo Wii console, they are offering a bundle consisting of one Nintendo Wii and ten horrible games, all for the low bargain price of $700. In other words, full price.
Why do east indian guys always insist on a good “deal”? Wiifm?
Man arrested for stalking girls through Xbox live →
I’ve been saying Xbox Live is chock full of weirdos, but this one takes the cake so far.
My ipod is broken, none of the buttons want to respond.
December 2007
enjoying some chicken noodle soup. I am finally awake from my nap.
On my way back to mill woods. I enjoyed having a kitten sleep on my chest last nite.
Sex with robots? Not so far off, says author →
And not just cold, mechanical sex that barely incites a feeble meep-meep-meep from your robot lover: No, we’re talking about real elbow-pads-and-helmets sex. Electrifying sex! (And afterward the robot will take a drag on a cigarette and say, “That really recharged my batteries.”)
Watching some guys beat on each other.
Glad to see the oil doing good.
At susie cues with chuck and co., waiting for the fight to start.
Welcome to Glubble - A new online experience for... →
oy, my mom has no patience. seesh, let me read my feeds.
Waiting to make sure sarahs plane leaves sooner than before.
Watching sarah leave for the terminal. Bye!
On the way to the airport to send sarah back to ontario.
Eating at steak village in the park with family.
wish people would listen to me. “No, sorry, I don’t have that one in stock…” (for the third time).
The Wii, officially hacked! →
Someone was able to start Homebrew in Wii-Mode. They were able to find encryption and decryption keys by doing full memory dumps at runtime over a custom serial interface. Using these keys, they were able to create a Wii ‘game’ that ran their own code. (video in link + more)
Why Today's Music Sounds Like Shit →
Over the past decade and a half, a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums are produced, mixed and mastered — almost always for the worse. Producers and engineers call this “the loudness war,” and it has changed the way almost every new pop and rock album sounds…
playing megaman 2 for the first time. Thanks retroforce for planting the idea in my head.
I am on fire today, two fido activations. Not as slow as I expected.
Thank goodness, the mall stoped playing christmas music. Sanity at last.
With Help from Digg: David Airey gets his Domain... →
Great help from godaddy and I’m sure david is thankful for everybody that contacted bob parsons regarding the event.Result.
Is the Dell XPS One a Better Machine than iMac? →
Today, December 27 at 1:01AM EDT, The Supreme Pope of Tech Walter Mossberg has declared the Dell XPS One a better machine than the iMac. And yes, that sound you thought you dreamt was Steve Jobs screaming and Hell freezing
sweet! edmontons’ candy cane lane on the front page of digg. Video kinda sucks though. http://urltea.com/2fkb
Gapminder - Home →
yay… found my bt mouse (thanks sarah). But, i left the batteries for it at my grandparents. brilliant.
7 Ways Modern Games are Spoiling us →
Before this generation, gaming gave us quite a bit of pain to suffer through before enjoying the pleasure. Nowadays, it seems as though we’re being served everything we wished for on a silver platter. Here’s seven new advances in gaming that have made us happier, yet lazier.
bla, why did I eat all the rice krispies. meh, they were good, no regrets.
The Flexibility of Open Source →
One of the things that has been a strong point of Open Source Software (OSS) for years, even if it hasn’t been held at the forefront of the battle, is the flexibility that OSS offers.
Howto: Convert A Friend To Linux →
Warning: You should proceed with caution using this Howto, if you do not know what you are doing you could damage your relationship with Friend 2.0 or totally break it. Also, using this Howto extensively with multiple Friend 2.0’s may damage Life 4.5, and end up as a sorrow lonely geek.
Yawn! Slow day despite the mall being so busy. Wish I had gotten more sleep, I had stayed up till 3. Very much addicted to the net.
The Economist: Ubuntu is the source of Linux's... →
The Economist makes three technology predictions for 2008, two of which concern web surfing and the third of which concerns everyone, whether they surf the web or not. The Economist’s third prediction is that the technology world will open up:
iPhone marriage proposal →
Being the romantic fellow that he is, Claude spent what must have been numerous hours producing a video proposal in the style of those ubiquitous commercials — as you can see after the break — and then screened it for his sweetheart (probably on his or her you-know-what) while they were strolling around the area where they’d first met in college.
