Archive for January, 2007

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

According to Bring Your Own there are places that will give you a discount if you bring your own mug/bag/container. We dispose of 700 pieces of plastic per year per person. This sucks more than I can possibly express. So next time you hit Starbucks (god help you) give them your commuter [...]

Vista Madness!!!!!

Are any of you crazy enough to be running Vista right now? I’ve been getting a lot of questions about it and I’m listening to TWIT 77 (I Have a backlog of ‘casts) right now and they’re saying that you really should by a whole new machine that is Vista Premium Ready.
Sounds like Vista [...]

Sacrifice

A family in South Wales built a little house under the hill. It’s an incredible project. It took four months, almost fifteen hundred man hours, and three thousand English monetary units. He built it using a chainsaw, a hammer and a one inch chisel.

Childhood Loves

I was cruising the geekfest that is Your Mom’s Basement and read the following, Your Mom’s Basement: Look Back In Anger: HIGHLANDER, which took the much beloved movie and tore it a new orifice. This, after reading a forum where someone bashed West Side Story, which happens to be one of my favorite musicals, [...]

Perilous V: A New Beginning

Aaaaand we’re back with the latest version of MCF’s Perilous! V. I supply twenty questions to his twenty answers. Click for the “funny”.

Similarities

It might be nothing but cool, but take a look at this picture of a mouse neuron and a computer model of the universe.

Networking and the OSI Model

Since things are a little slow today I decided to “hit the books”. My contracting agency has an online training suite. I’ve been working on the CompTIA Security+ cert and today I started the Network+ track in addition. It just went over the OSI model. In an effort to see how [...]

Chemex Brewer

This is my new coffee maker and it rocks the hizzy. My old Grind-n-Brew bit the dust and so I dropped some Christmas cash on it. What’s the big deal?

Flash Fiction Contest

Corporate Chaplains

I was listening to NPR and they did a broadcast about the concept of a corporate chaplain. There’s certainly a history of chaplains in the military and in hospitals. The idea of a pastor on staff at a religious organization makes sense, but I’ve never thought about a secular company having one. [...]