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Month: April 2009
Time Killer For The Day
Civiballs is a fun physics game that will probably frustrate the crap out of you.
The 2009 Pick ’em is Officially Over
While the winner was declared after Saturday’s games, the tournament pick ’em wasn’t officially over until today when North Carolina throttled Michigan State. The final spreadsheet has been posted the places have mostly stayed the same, other than my co-worker jumping from 24th to 9th place (passing me in the process), because he picked North Carolina to win it all. I placed in the middle-bottom of the pack again.
A big thanks to everybody for playing, and a special thank you to all our prize providers (in no particular order):
Be sure to support these fine folks who have made this tournament more fun by throwing in some great prizes.
I have the shipping addresses for all the winners, and will be shipping off their prizes once I get them all collected from the prize providers sometime this week and get them shipped off next week.
Neverending Loop
Want to cause all sorts of havoc on a PC? Install the Google Toolbar and make sure that the setting that protects Google as your search provider and home page is set (I think it is by default). Then install Yahoo!’s toolbar and make sure the same settings are set on there. Watch the fun ensue.
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Seriously, don’t do the above. I has a user complain about “some sort of Yahoo error that was causing him to not be able to work.” I went over there, and the Yahoo! search protection was trying to protect the Google software from updating the start page, and the Google toolbar was fighting with the Yahoo! toolbar to do the same. A constant stream of balloons and messages were popping up, with one program trying to out-protect the other. Once I uninstalled one, everything worked fine again.
Wonder what would happen if you threw the Ask Toolbar into the mix, as I’m sure it has similar features? I have an old XP system in the office, I’m almost tempted to try this.
The UtterlyBoring.com Tournament Pick ’em Has A Winner!
Note: I had written up a longer post than this, but my computer decided to BSOD on me while writing it. And I was an idiot and didn’t save. Will try to figure out why when time allows. Meanwhile, I’m writing up a shorter post here just to get something up.
We have a winner of the NCAA Tournament Pick ’em who will win the thing, no matter what happens in Monday’s final game (as the top several places all picked North Carolina to win, and not a single person picked Michigan State to win). So looking at the nearly final, very close scores, “ft collins+jakes dinner=win (grant.ortman)” has taken first place, and “burnt bracket (Tyler S)” has taken second place. The Dren won the last-place prize again and will get his t-shirt after I have a chance to redesign it because he’s a two-time loser.
As you may have guessed, “grant.ortman” is a relative of mine in Colorado, and I’ll be shipping the winning prizes his way. “Tyler S.” if you can contact me via your Yahoo! email address on the tournament page or post an alternate email address for yourself, that’d be terrific. Remember that the rules state that contact has to be made within two weeks or I start going down the list.
Thanks again to all the prize providers who threw in prizes (click on their banners up by the BendBroadband ad), and I’ll post one more wrap-up on Monday after the final scores have been tallied (as there may be a few brackets down in the ranks that will move up).
Link Dump
Lately my work life has been so chaotic that the last thing I want to do when I come home is turn my computer on, even if I really want to share my finds with the world. I’ve saved a good majority of the links that people have sent me, but it’s gotten to the point where some of them are so old that they aren’t relevant any more.
So today, in the anti-spirit of all the other useless crap you’ll find online today (’tis April Fool’s day, after all), here are some good links that may just be a bit dated (or just random as they’re things that I’ve bookmarked for my own reference:
- Live International Piracy Map (we’re talking real piracy with boats and such).
- Curb This is the new Yakety Sax.
- Creating a print-friendly template in Movable Type.
- Top 10 ways to lock down your data.
- Best places to find multi-monitor wall-paper.
- Firefox for Mobile, which can’t happen soon enough.
- Stalled Printer Repair purges stuck print jobs.
- 20 Great Freeware Games from Cactus.
- Vortexbox, and open-source CD ripping and media server OS.
- Stupidly neat little invention that I didn’t know existed: a white-balance lens cap.
- It’s on Ubuntu, it’s Super Ubuntu!
- The Enigma Desktop Is Beautiful.
More tomorrow. I need to sleep.