Fairly Realistic

A quick note about try/catch/finally blocks in .NET: the finally block will be executed no matter what! When you’re working with files or connections to servers, please remember to close them whether your code executes properly or fails miserably. It’s good for you, for me and for the world as a whole.
From MSDN:
When an exception […]

I have become that guy who spends an hour or more each day reading and responding to email. It crept up slowly at first but then one day I realized what was happening. I don’t get that much spam either. Apparently, I’m a popular guy.

The Scottish band Looper really gets it. They said that they’ve made enough money to live off of songs that they licensed to be used in advertisements so they are giving away their music for free to fans.

Following the Sony fiasco is like watching a soap opera. I can’t get enough. Fully understanding the technology and the situation makes it even more entertaining. I saw this article today reporting on how the artists are being affected by Sony’s rootkit exploits. Nice job, Sony. Just like the article says, how long before one […]

Now here is a group that *gets it*! Bare Naked Ladies is releasing an album on a reusable memory stick without any DRM. I, for one, will be boycotting Sony until they get their act together or apologize for the rootkit fiasco. That sucks too because I was planning on buying a new Sony digital […]

This is the best piece of spam that I’ve gotten in a few weeks! I’ve been caught visiting illegal websites again, damn.

I just installed Google Analytics on my blog. It’s pretty sweet and does a great job of organizing website statistics. It allows you to track as many sites as you like for free (until you hit 5 million page views per month) and integrates with AdSense very nicely. You can also give access to your […]

A new product called FON is making its debut and hoping to unify all of our extra bandwidth into one giant network. I think it’s a great idea to share all of the idle bandwidth we have kicking around. Unfortunately, I don’t think that the internet providers are going to feel the same way. There […]

I own the domain ISCO.US. It’s going to expire in 30 days. I don’t intend on using it any longer so if anyone wants it, please ask! I will transfer it to you free of cost so that you can renew it for $8/year. Originally, I was going to do something with sub-domains such as […]

It seems that lately the rootkits have been in the news a lot. This is the best Rootkit Revealer application that I was able to find. In fact, it’s called RootkitRevealer and it’s free from Sysinternals. I’ve used freeware from them before and have never been disappointed.
What’s a rootkit?
The term rootkit is used to describe […]