Sometimes brevity is bad. For example, this Fandango synopsis for the new Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince . It makes it sound more like a DVD for Wizards Gone Wild Vol 2. LOL
Facebook app ver 3.0 for iPhone is now installed. I can finally view events! And just in time for the weekend.
What a relief! Bill Clinton flew to North Korea and was able to negotiate a pardon for the two jailed US journalists. The New York Times has the full story. Clinton Leaves N. Korea After 2 Journalists Are Pardoned
I just posted a new review to my site. This program has been out for a while but many people still have not heard of it or tried it. My review is a review of F.lux, a program that adjusts the color temperature of your monitor based on the time of day. If you haven’t [...]
RIP David Carradine. You will not be forgotten Kwai Chang. David Carradine December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009
This was posted on one of my favorite personal finance blogs. I had it bookmarked last month but forgot to post it in my blog. It’s a short article and worth reading. Check out the video as well. Original article link 60-second video: Myths of credit Written on March 11th, 2009 While personal-finance journalists love [...]
You were an incredible actress and will be missed. RIP. Bea Arthur dies of cancer at 86 Bea Arthur May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009
This makes me quite happy. I have always been a big fan of Sun but after having worked at Oracle for a while I’m excited at the prospect of having Sun servers running much of Oracle’s OnDemand services in their data centers. Venturebeat is reporting, Oracle Corporation, the large software database company, said Monday it [...]
In honor of Easter MAKE blog has a fun article about fun things to do with Peeps.
Disney made one movie, and they’ve been tracing it ever since. Video courtesy of CollegeHumor.com
Aquarium staff have unearthed a ‘giant sea’ worm that was attacking coral reef and prize fish. The 4ft long monster, named Barry, had launched a sustained attack on the reef in a display tank at Newquay’s Blue Reef Aquarium over recent months. Workers at the Cornwall-based attraction had been left scratching their heads as to [...]
ENTP Extroverted (E) 77.14% Introverted (I) 22.86% Intuitive (N) 52.5% Sensing (S) 47.5% Thinking (T) 54.76% Feeling (F) 45.24% Perceiving (P) 60% Judging (J) 40% ENTP – “Inventor”. Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 3.2% of the total population Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)
For those who own an iPhone or iPod touch and use Skype the app is now available in the app store.
Freakonomics posted an amusing article a few days ago titled “The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Evil Twin Edition”. From the article, Say your evil twin successfully completes a multimillion-dollar jewel heist but leaves a DNA-tainted glove at the crime scene. The police have your DNA on file, because you and your twin have both been arrested before. [...]
MAKE blog has an article up now about the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab toy circa 1950-1951. This thing is pretty sweet. Per the description, “The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source (Pb-210), a pure beta source (Ru-106), a gamma source (Zn-65?), a spinthariscope, a cloud chamber with its own [...]
Instead of carrying a jug from my RODI unit in my laundry closet to fill my salt water aquarium I ran a 20ft tube from the unit to the tank. Gotta love apartment living. This also allows me to add water at a slower rate instead of dumping a 5g jug of fresh water into [...]
If you haven’t already seen this while it’s been making it’s rounds you really need to see this. Take 4 mins and watch this video. You’ll thank me later.
Heartland Data Breach: 500+ Institutions Affected Related Phishing Scam Uncovered in Texas http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=1227 The number of financial institutions that stepped forward to say their customers’ credit or debit cards were compromised because of the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach has now reached more than 500. Little more than a month ago, on Jan. 20, [...]
It’s funny how when you come home and are at your parents house you automatically regress back to a college kid. Or maybe it’s a guy thing. Though I use the term regress loosely since I don’t think guys ever stop being college kids. lol