Leave it to a man to ruin a nice romantic moment…
Looking For A Christmas Gift Idea?
How about your give your loved ones a Do-It-Yourself Posable Paper David Hasseloff? If the Hoff isn’t your thing, the guy has a posable pope,
Random Blog For The Day
Here’s a site dedicated to men who look like old lesbians. And amazingly, it’s more entertaining than I’d thought it would be.
Hawks Are Fast Birds…
…but they got nothing on this rabbit.
Geekdom Link Dump
Just a collection of links that are mostly for my reference, but somebody might find it interesting.
- New project: Ubuntu Home Server (directly in response to Windows Home Server).
- Remote control somebody’s desktop with Crossloop.
- Get Vista-style drive icons in XP with Vista Drive Icon (just yet another reason you don’t need Vista, no matter what Barney says on KTVZ).
- What does a billboard printer look like? Something like this.
- Build your own Hackintosh Mac for under $800 (anybody want to send me $800 so I can try this?). Or I guess I could just try running it on the PC I already have, though it’d still be nice to have a dedicated box for the experiment.
- Essential Tools for a Placeless Office (great collection of ideas and thoughts on if you have a company with no office).
- Fedora 8 Games Spin Live DVD (this is going in the laptop bag for those times when I’m stuck somewhere).
- Is It time for 64-bit on the desktop?
- Identifying slow MySQL queries.
- Getting Redhat Enterprise or CentOS to support 4GB (or more) of RAM using the PAE Kernel.
- The KDE Education project — great linux distro for students and teachers.
- For my reference: To see if any IP addresses have a ton of connections to your server quickly and easily, run “netstat -ntu | awk ‘{print $5}’ | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n”.
- Reserve off part of your desktop for docked applications with DesktopCoral.
- Disable wget if you don’t need it.
- Free software to find your security flaws.
- Mandriva’s open letter to Steve Ballmer.
- Your desktop is not a destination.
- Having a hard time convincing your boss to use encrypted e-mail? This might do it.
- Salvage an old system with Damn Small Linux.
- How to See What Pages a Traffic Source is Linking in Google Analytics.
- How to recover a deleted Word document.
- Top ten off switches.
Update on 11/14: A few more I just found (many from here):
Ouch
Ever slept funky on your neck so that when you wake up in the morning the entire left or right half of your neck and shoulder hurts so bad you can’t move it much at all? That’s where I’m at right now, and wishing the advil would kick in here.
More blogging tomorrow if I can move properly, as I can barely look at my computer screen right now and I think I’m going to ditch work early because of it.
Update on 11/13: Finally can move my neck a bit better after a couple nights of strong drugs and a steady diet of Advil. Still a bit stiff, but can at least work, which I couldn’t do on Sunday (had to go home early).
You Know Your City’s Hit The Big Time…
…when you’ve got yourself a panty thief like we do — just yet another thing I’m proud to tell friends about Bend.
Well Lookie There…
Two years ago, I created a t-shirt that I created to proclaim my love for tourists in Central Oregon. Then, inspired by this blog post over on BendBubble2, I created another shirt. Apparently I’ve actually sold a few of the shirts, probably thanks to being the third result on this page and the number one result on this page.
So to celebrate my grand total of five bucks in profit, I decided to create a yard sign. Enjoy!
Did Anybody Else Get The Bank of the Cascades Phishing Phone Call?
Last night at about 9:30 my phone rang, and it was an automated message saying that my Bank of The Cascades account had been compromised and I needed to call some toll-free number I didn’t recognize to re-activate it. Since I don’t have a Bank of The Cascades account, I just assumed it was a scam and hung up. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who got the phone call, as my in-laws called me and said they got it, along with a bunch of other folks, some who did and some who did not have BOTC accounts.
BOTC, like every bank, is now the victim of phishing scams, and even has a Web page for this type of thing, but I know the toll-free number I heard was an not the “877” that they advertise on that page (I can’t remember the number, but I’m pretty sure it was an 866 number).
Did anybody else get that phone call? Anybody know what’s going on?
Update at 3:30: Apparently I’m not the only one — it’ll be on KOHD tonight, and it’s on the Bulletin’s site right now (thanks for that, Jen).