Year: 2004

136 posts

Software conflict?

Do you ever install a new piece of software and find that it breaks something else?  This person had the same problem. :D Icon Story

EM EYE SEE…

Paula Little, you've just finished your first semester of graduate school... what are you going to do now?

Even your camera can be teary eyed now

Imagine a lens for your camera phone that is very small and has no moving parts yet is still able to focus and zoom like the “huge” lens you already have.  French…

Free Credit Reports

Starting tomorrow (12/1) people on the west coast will be able to request a free credit report at http://www.annualcreditreport.com/.  This new service will eventually be available to the whole country but is…

A page from simpler times

You know they didn't put this page up recently, but the number of things to see in Iraq makes me sad that the human race is so screwed up.  One more place…

Happy Turkey Day!

Ever wonder where those turkeys come from and where they go?  National Geographic published an article in 2001 with some interesting details (like the trainers spend a lot of time dressed in…

Back up again

Sorry if you received a reload of my entire post set, my blog software threw a cog this morning and a reinstall was required to get up and running again.

When?

Took this picture a few months ago when The Day After Tomorrow was going to start playing in theaters in the coming weekend (phew). Click for big

World-Wide Media Exchange

I was just e-mailed this by a co-worker (thanks Paul!): the World-Wide Media eXchange.  It’s a Microsoft Research project gathering pictures from all over the world and arranging them into a map-driven…

God’s food

Perhaps it was made with Swiss cheese, it's hole-y!  Hole-y!  Get it?  Holes in cheese?  Sounds like holy?  Anyone?  C'mon, this is great stuff!  Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Update: eBay auction saved…

They’re everywhere!

I can't seem to get away from it... on the way home from work the DJ on a local FM radio station was talking over some instrumental music... the opening theme music…

I can quit any time I like

Normally I don't like it when my honey goes out of town… I get lonely and sulky, I don't shave and I eat way more cereal than any human should.  Tuesday was…