4 Years Today
Today Beth and I have been married for four years. Amazing how time flies when you’re having fun! Also amazing is how much less of us there is (that picture was me about 80 pounds ago, for example)… Happy Anniversary … Continue reading
Today Beth and I have been married for four years. Amazing how time flies when you’re having fun! Also amazing is how much less of us there is (that picture was me about 80 pounds ago, for example)… Happy Anniversary … Continue reading
If Peter Wallace’s recent experience with hotel access cards is an indicator, leaving your electronic hotel room key behind when you check out could leave you open to identity theft. Wallace, IT director at AAA Reading-Berks in Wyomissing, Penn. has … Continue reading
Admiring babies is wrong in one hospital… Don’t dare ask questions or stare at them… A statement from Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax said staff had held an advice session to highlight the need for respect and dignity for patients. … Continue reading
Digital File Check is a simple educational tool that aims to guide computer users, many of whom might be new to the world of online music. Digital File Check helps to show how they, or their families, colleagues and friends, … Continue reading
A judge in San Francisco has thrown out a lawsuit that targeted Visa and MasterCard for a security breach at CardSystems, a payment processor. Here are some relevant quotes to make your blood sizzle: A California judge ruled Friday that … Continue reading
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Sometimes the obvious can be stated so succinctly that it’s nearly sublime… Your digital camera does no good sitting on top of your bureau. If your camera is too big or too bulky to take everywhere, consider trading down to … Continue reading
When it’s a black community doing it to a white lesbian, of course… ST. PETERSBURG – A town hall meeting with City Council candidate Darden Rice turned ugly after some audience members criticized her for being white and a lesbian. … Continue reading
Wal-Mart sucks. They’re about to lay off 4% of their workforce, and they’re citing the increasing costs of minimum wage and other such expenses, bringing their total layoffs for a three year period to six percent of their workforce. Bastards. … Continue reading
You’ve heard of them before. Usually preceded by some ACLU talking head, we hear about how the mere mention of God within twenty miles of Michael Newdow is some strange violation of his constitutional right to live with his head … Continue reading
I should have spent most of my afternoon in the hospital. It all started when I went to the grocery store to pick up some low-carb bread (which is really tasty, although it doesn’t have much of a shelf life). … Continue reading
Boulders tumbling down an antarctic slope left tracks that weren’t there two years ago. New impact craters formed since the 1970s suggest changes to age-estimating models. And for three arctic summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near … Continue reading
So, this morning I didn’t have a chance to read my “newspaper feeds” before I left the house and wrote about Cindy Sheehan gettin’ roughed up by the five-o. Well, turns out one of her supporters is actually the one … Continue reading
Much has been made of the “citizen journalism” movement, and to a degree it’s warranted. However, much of its credit lately seems to be the mainstream morons trying to figure out how capitalize on the free news gathering of the … Continue reading
Mr Jobs said that by cutting out manufacturing jobs, selling through iTunes was already proving lucrative for record companies. “So if they want to raise the prices it just means they’re getting a little greedy,” he said. [...] “We’re trying … Continue reading
Apple Computer Inc. is on track to ship Intel-based computers as targeted by June 2006, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said on Tuesday. “We are on track to do that,” Jobs told a news conference in Paris, referring to the plan … Continue reading
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Workers are more like to indulge in risky Internet behavior — surfing to unknown or even suspicious sites, for example — when they have an IT department behind them to clean up their mess, a recently released study claims. According … Continue reading
Jamika Burge is heading back to Virginia Tech this fall to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science, but her research is spiced with anthropology, sociology, psychology, psycholinguistics – as well as observing cranky couples trade barbs in computer instant messages. … Continue reading