Even if you wanted a couch made of a coffin, without supplemental furniture to go with it, what’s the point?
Month: June 2008
I Could See This Playing Out Here
Just substitute “Brits” for “Californians” and “Germans” for “Oregonians”, and this could play out here.
Thanks Jennifer for the link.
We’ve All Had Bad Days At The Office…
…but nothing quite like this:
Another angle from a guy’s cell phone:
Why do I have this feeling that this was some sort of viral video? Oh well, it’s still entertaining.
Update on 6/6: Somebody found a funny version of this with…uh… a different audio source:
Geekdom Link Dump
For the geeks (like me) out there, enjoy! (And even if you’re not a geek, there is something you’ll enjoy here, I’m sure).
- Outlook Attachment Remover Add-in is a free Outlook add-in for saving and extracting attachments, decreasing the size of your Outlook files. Speaking of Outlook, here’s something that will screw with Outlook users heads.
- IsMyLcdOK, a tool to help see if you have dead pixels. If you do find stuck or dead pixels, here are some tricks to fix them.
- Scaring people with Flash’s full screen.
- Recover lost Windows, application, IM, router, and other saved passwords.
- Whatever happened to UI consistency?
- iPhone Apps worth Jailbreaking your phone for.
- How to Update your Hackintosh Mac to 10.5.3.
- Windows XP SP3 triggers false positives in security apps.
- Geohashing with XKCD.
- Keep XP Fresh until Windows 7 arrives.
- Commercial Games Gone Freeware.
- If you own an iPhone, you may already own the Most Powerful Portable Gaming Device.
- Torrent2Exe turns torrent files into tiny executable files that will download the torrent’s files for your less torrent-savvy friends.
- Has Vista SP1 caught up to XP SP3 perfomance? Quite possibly.
- Speaking of Vista, get its best features in XP.
- Prevent “locate link browser” popup dialogs in Outlook (that’s mostly for my reference as I run into this now and again with Firefox and Outlook).
- Change the product key on a Windows XP install.
- Help For The E-Mail Etiquette Challenged (send this PDF to everybody).
- Windows reinstall — Simple, Easy, and Quick. Covers the basics of backing up data, drivers, and more before bulldozing things (DriverMax is mostly why I linked to this).
- Determine if your ISP is messing with your BitTorrent traffic (haven’t tried this at home yet).
- 10 Tools to Get Your Blogging Done.
- How do I find a unix/linux command?
- What can you do with a 2nd ethernet port on your linux box?
- Free (or open source) drive imaging solutions.
- In Celebration of Pixel Art.
- How To Thief Proof Your Laptop. Some of this is going to get done here at the office so a public laptop we have doesn’t get stolen. Nevermind that the laptop in question is probably only worth about $20 on the black market, it still looks high-tech.
- What can you do with one kilobyte of code? Quite a bit, actually.
- Here’s a fix for when clock, volume, power, or network icons are missing or grayed out in Vista.
- AutoGK is great for ripping DVDs to Divx.
- Solving the IT Turnover Crisis. Every HR and IT manager should read this.
- Building your own home theater PC.
- 10 good additions to your phone’s contact list.
- “Viruses can be picked up via networks. Hackers hack in to computers via networks. Viruses are bad. Hackers are bad. QED: networks are bad. It’s obvious when you really think about it! Therefore, there is no company network.” Wow, I wish this were fake.
Did You Notice Google’s New Favicon?
I noticed it the new Favicon, too, and I agree with pretty much everybody here: I don’t like it. I thought there was something wrong with my browser when the Google icon on those tabs for various searches and services is now a small “g” (versus the capital “G” before). I can barely see the small letter while the capital letter was easy to spot and we all know it was Google’s icon. What moron in their marketing department thought changing their obvious branded “G” to this was a good idea?
Google’s official word is here (which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, really), but there is a Greasemonkey script to get the old one back.
I just wonder if there are bigger plans in the works — some sort of new interface, perhaps — that they’re trying to start getting the new branding out there. Begin forming your conspiracy theories now…
BendBroadband Cap Protest Planned
(If you have no idea what folks would be protesting, read up here)
The folks at FixBBB are planning to protest the BendBroadband bandwidth caps this weekend. Right now, I’m in the boat where while I don’t like the caps (which have been raised) I’m below the 100GB limit and it’d be a hassle to move everything to a new ISP right now. I’m also far enough away from the Qwest downtown office where the speeds would be quite a bit slower than what I have now if I were to move to DSL.
I won’t be able to attend (nor was I really planning to, as I’m not one for protesting publicly — I protest with my wallet, personally), nor do I personally expect it to do a whole lot of good. Not only is the foot traffic in and out of the BendBroadband office probably really low (especially on a Saturday) but drive-by traffic is pretty minimal by their front door (if the protest is behind their offices, facing Empire, that might be more effective).
Speaking of boats (I was — lookup a few lines) it’s free fishing weekend, so that will undoubtedly take some traffic away. Or not. I have no idea, I just wanted to throw a stupid joke in there.
Cascade Winds In Concert Today and Tomorrow
The Cascade Winds Symphonic Band is presenting their final concerts of the 2007-2008 season this afternoon and tomorrow night. Full details are here. The concerts are free, no ticket needed, and are today at 2:00PM and tomorrow at 7:30 at Summit High School.
I’m in the band, and if you want an excuse to see me in a tux (<sarcasm>I mean, really, who doesn’t?</sarcasm>), now’s your chance.
It promises to be a good show, so hope to see some of you there!