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.
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 used it check out my review to see if you might like it. I have been using it for a while and love it!
If you haven’t checked it out, check out this link I think you’ll really like this great program.
http://www.kevinblanchard.com/software/flux/
To all the dads out there, Happy Father’s Day!
RIP David Carradine. You will not be forgotten Kwai Chang.
To all the baby mommas out there. Have a wonderful day!
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.
Written on March 11th, 2009
While personal-finance journalists love to point out that we could save $3/day by not buying lattes, they usually don’t point out that having good credit can save you over $100,000 on major purchases, like buying a house or car. Credit isn’t as sexy as lattes, but since we focus on the big wins, today I’m showing you a 60-second video that dispels myths of credit.
Check it out — a guest post from Andy Jolls of videocreditscore.com.
I Will Teach You to Be….Credit Savvy…in 60 seconds by Andy Jolls, ex-FICO Exec and CEO, VideoCreditScore.com
We are bombarded by credit ads on Facebook, mySpace, random blogs and even Nascar races. Many of these ads are for free trial services where the costs kick in before you get a chance to understand what you are buying. So here’s the skinny on what you need to know about credit in 60 seconds
As Ramit and I agree on not sweating the small stuff, I want you to focus on not obsessing on your FICO score. Instead, I want you to learn the important elements – such as pay on time, and eliminate balances – and develop habits that will keep your credit score high for years to come.
You were an incredible actress and will be missed. RIP.
Bea Arthur dies of cancer at 86
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 will acquire the server company Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share, or about $7.4 billion. It brings together two iconic Silicon Valley powerhouse tech companies that have long shared a spiritual alliance, initially to resist dominance by Microsoft during the 1990s.
The full article can be found here
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 why the coral had been left devastated and – in some cases – cut in half. After staking out the display for several weeks, the last resort was to completely dismantle it, rock by rock.
Halfway through the process the predator was revealed as a four-foot polychaete worm. Staff eventually lured it out with fish scraps, but not before it bit through 20lb fishing line.
Matt Slater, the aquarium’s curator, said: ‘Something was guzzling our reef but we had no idea what, we also found an injured Tang Fish so we laid traps but they got ripped apart in the night. ‘That worm must have obliterated the traps. The bait was full of hooks which he must have just digested.’
He added: ‘It really does look like something out of a horror movie. It’s over four feet long with these bizarre-looking jaws. ‘We also discovered that he is covered with thousands of bristles which are capable of inflicting a sting resulting in permanent numbness.’
Mr Slater said Barry, who has now been relocated to his own tank, probably arrived as a juvenile in a delivery of living rock from another aquarium.
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
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. Lucky for you, your twin’s genetic markers are so similar to your own that no test can tell them apart. Since the DNA is the only evidence linking anyone to the crime, and you have a solid alibi (you weren’t robbing a jewelery store, your evil twin was) you both get off scot free at trial.
According to Freakonomics “It could be the perfect crime, and it just happened, in Germany. “
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 short-lived alpha source (Po-210), an electroscope, a geiger counter, a manual, a comic book (Dagwood Splits the Atom) and a government manual “Prospecting for Uranium.”
Other Gilbert sets (e.g., the No. 11 Atomic Energy set) continued to carry the spinthariscope, the ore and the manual. In addition, the Geiger counter could be purchased separately.”
Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab
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 the sump all at once.
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.
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, Heartland, a Princeton, NJ-based payments processor, went public that it had discovered hackers had gained access to its computer networks and had been able to see credit card and debit card numbers as they were processed for several months in 2008. The nation’s sixth largest payments processor, Heartland said it processed an average of 100 million transactions each month in 2008, and has about 175,000 retail and merchant customers for which it handles credit and debit transactions across the U.S.
Three customer class action suits have been filed in U.S. Federal Court in New Jersey against the payments processor by Philadelphia-based law firms. No class action suit on behalf of institutions affected by the breach has been filed yet.
Three men were arrested and charged with using "cloned" or counterfeit cards with stolen credit card numbers from the Heartland breach in Tallahassee, FL earlier this month, but no further arrests have been made in the case. The three men arrested in the Florida fraud case were described as lower-level players, but law enforcement continues to follow the trail of fraud and credit cards stolen in the Heartland breach that have been used in Mexico, Texas, Florida and other states.
Related Phishing Scam Hits Texas Bank
A bank in Texas reports that its customers are being targeted in a phishing scam related to the Heartland breach. Extraco Bank in Killeen, TX had to replace 9,000 cards that were compromised. On Saturday, the bank told customers in an email that if they received a text message or page that told them to call an 866 number and asked for debit or credit card number, expiration date and PIN numbers, to contact the bank. It is a phishing scam, the bank told its customers.
The local paper, The Killeen Daily Herald, reported the bank’s phishing scam on Sunday. Identical scams were already reported in other local area cities, says Extraco. The bank is working with AT&T and the U.S. Secret Service to trace the scammer and get the number disconnected.
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
