Fairly Realistic

We had people in for training this week at VanDamme. Doug needed a hit of caffeine at about 2:30 in the afternoon and sent me this email:

Subject: Any chance I can get some more of that espresso?
While the risk of it causing the garbage plate to be released from my bowls [sic], I MUST have […]

Wonderful. Another zero-day exploit for we Windows users. Makes my previous post about Apple so much sweeter. I can’t wait to go home to my Powerbook

Apple Computer is having a birthday on April 1st! This is no April fools joke. Apple Computer is going to be 30 years old! There are a lot of people out there doing something special for Steve Jobs to thank him for his contribution to computing. I’ve seen a few sites pop up such as […]

Google came out with a web page creator a few weeks ago but after the first few thousand people signed up a waiting list started. I, of course, signed up as soon as I could not because I really need another website but just because I wanted to play with something new. This morning my […]

March Network Admin Madness has started! Here’s an email from my buddy’s mom’s network admin:
Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:03:54 AM
From: [REMOVED]
Subject: March Madness & the Internet
To: ALL_EMPLOYEES
FYI:
With the NCAA Basketball tournament starting today, the Internet may be
"slow". Millions of people around the world may be watching streaming
videos of the tournament slowing everyone else down.
Thank […]

I took the day off today to work on my graduate project and hang out with Joe. Stayed up late, didn’t sleep in and just had a bowl of really tasty oatmeal. Ahhh, yes, now this is vacation!

I saw this advertised on another site and could not resist clicking it. Because, really, 2 seconds is 1.9 seconds too long! This web application creates a cache of registered domains and searches them really quickly. It’s neat. Here’s a free plug for this service which is donation-ware (so no ads). Check it out!

I find myself often wanting to get the HTML (hex) color code for something. I’ve memorized most of the basic colors using the #RRGGBB format but some of the finer and nicer colors still escape me. There’s a program that I just installed called ColorPic which does a great job of getting color codes and […]

John Battelle wrote a book about Google called The Search. Google indexed the book through their Google Book Search service. Now, the publisher is suing Google over it. Battelle does not want to sue Google over his book about them but his publisher (Penguin) is relentless. What the heck? I realize that Penguin is suing […]

Have you ever tried to create a .htaccess file from Windows? Well, Windows does not like file names that start with a period. Yes, I know that I should be using my PowerBook but it’s kind of sick right now (my own fault, different story). Anyway, there’s the trick:
1. Open Notepad
2. Type your .htaccess file […]