Bill Gates wishes he wasn’t so rich. He’s welcome to share some of that with me, if he’s wanting to dump off some of his wealth.
Month: May 2006
Screw Dr. Phil
I’m going to watch Mr. T’s new show.
Random YouTube Video Dump
Have a bunch of YouTube videos sitting in my inbox here, so I figured I’d just dump them all at once:
- Real Life Frogger
- Kitty and Rooster — friends? (Thanks Cheryl)
- A friend sends me a music video some friends of his made. It’s a bit out there for me, but the fact that it’s composed entirely of clips and sounds from the Evil Dead movie trilogy might interest someone.
- C For Cookie (great V For Vendetta parody).
- Banned XBox Commercial
- VW Commercial
(Thanks Greg)
Enjoy!
Were they really saying “I’m Trapped In A Mine. I Need An iPod!”?
Out of all the things they could send down a small hole to trapped miners, why an iPod?
BEACONSFIELD, Australia — Two Australian miners trapped for more than a week in a tiny cage more than a half mile underground were given iPods Wednesday to help them while away the hours as rescuers prepared to start drilling them an escape tunnel.
Did they send down a network cable so they could sync up with iTunes? Hopefully they sent headphones. Thanks Barn for the link.
I Think I’m A Bit Behind…
…I just made the mistake of looking at my RSS reader, which I’ve avoided for the last few weeks as I’ve just been too slammed at work. Amount of unread items? 21583.
I should probably clear some of this mess out … . Or just mark it all as read and call it good. That sounds like a better idea.
Need Good Wireless Access Point For Hot Spot
I’m working on building a public hot spot for an area out here in Sunriver, and need some advice and see if anybody has recommendations. I need a good access point with the following:
- Functionality that will allow us to set a starter page a “Sponsored By” page that will say who’s providing the access and general rules and policies on it.
- I need to be able to limit bandwidth usage so that people aren’t able to saturate the providing pipe.
- If it can survive outdoors, that’d be ideal, but regardless, it needs to be able to have an external antenna hooked up to it as I can run the antenna outside.
- Ideally, I’d like to be able to have filtering that will filter folks based on time online, so they can’t be online for the entire day.
- 802.11b coverage is all I’m really concerned width — I don’t really want folks to have 802.11a/g.
- It needs to provide IP addresses and do DHCP, as I’m going to be hooking this thing directly into a pipe that’s not going to be doing any of that.
- Content filtering would be nice, but not required. Some sort of local cache would be nice (obviously we’re talking about hooking the thing up to a cache at this point, and that might be total overkill), but not required.
If anybody has input on parts they’ve used, that would be wonderful. Or if anybody knows of an alternative firmware for the Linksys WRT54G/L router that will do this, that will certainly save me some money.
Comment here or e-mail me if you have any ideas.
You Should Always Wear Your Seatbelt
You should wear it so that when you’re doped up on some whacky drug and are trying to out-run the cops on the highway, you might actually survive the wreck (my guess is this guy didn’t).
What If Kids Wrote Speeches For George W.?
While they were written by 7-10 year-olds, they sound a lot like the way he talks.