PC World has a great article about 13 applications it thinks should’ve just been left alone. Thanks to sites like Old Version and Old Apps, we can still get copies of those older, much more functional, muss less annoying applications.
A T-Shirt I Really Need
Everybody complains I’m hard to shop for, but I’d be a happy little geek with this Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt.
Mile Is Now Same Length as Kilometer
First the Canadian dollar and the US dollar met in value, and now this.
I blame global warming and terrorists.
Wal-Mart’s Spreading Like A Virus
Interesting video showing how Wal-Marts spread across the country like an ugly disease (companion WSJ story). Links via BB.
Geekdom Link Dump
Getting rid of some links, mostly for my reference here.
- What is ctfmon.exe and why is it running?
- MySQL Tuning Analyzer Script.
- Monospace (read: programmer) font comparison.
- PatchOnClick, an interesting little patch tool.
- An explanation of SQL joins using Venn diagrams.
- Pushing operating system limits.
- Computer display calibration 101.
- Install Ubuntu on a flash drive and run it from Windows.
- Stealth Windows Update prevents XP repair, but there are ways around it.
- Upgrading Perl on cPanel to 5.8.8.
- Change the registered owner in Windows.
- Windows XP Shutdown Troubleshooter.
- Great duplicate remover for Excel.
- Top 10 WiFi Boosts, Tweaks, and Apps.
- Universal wireless repeater with dd-wrt.
- Nintendo DS Homebrew card comparison.
- Obscure and rarely used HTML tags.
- Handy cPanel scripts.
- “img” hack to detect browsers — though I don’t know how useful this is.
It’s Snowing
Not quite in Bend yet, but out here at my office in Sunriver, there’s a dusting and it’s still coming.
I’ll probably melt off later this week, but check out the current Web cams in the area to see. But here’s a current Web cam image from Sunriver:
Update: Well that was fun. Couple hours later, it’s just rain now, snow has been washed away. But the mountains are getting snow.
Comedy Gold
Robin Williams, Carol Burnett. Classic.
Stupidly Hard Game For The Day
What ever you do, don’t click on the “Z”. Took me 10 minutes to get the rest of the letters. I suck.
Two Parent Of The Year Nominees
First we have these winners:
A man and a woman were arrested Sunday after police said they left their two children in a sport-utility vehicle while drinking margaritas in a Hutto restaurant.
The kids were one-year-old and five-years-old, and were in there for a half hour.
But they have nothing on this lady as she is inarguably the worst mom of the year:
SCHENECTADY — In what one officer called one of the most despicable acts he can recall, a Saratoga County woman is accused of prostituting herself and then snorting cocaine from the stomach of her newborn son while breast-feeding him.
Wow. Just wow.