Entries from September 2006

September 30, 2006

176 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With “Pants”

Very funny stuff.  Link.

September 30, 2006

Deliver Us From Evil

Wow…pretty powerful trailer for a documentary coming out, which has to do with priest child abuse in the Catholic church.  Link.

September 30, 2006

Pixel – “Photoshop” for Linux

This software looks freakin’ awesome.  Supposedly, it does just about everything Photoshop does at a fraction of the cost ($79 for full version), and the best part, it’s available for Linux.  Yes, Windows and Mac OS X also…but LINUX!  Website and screenshots.
p.s.  Did you notice their site runs on WordPress? 

September 30, 2006

SPF Record Wizard

If you manage your own DNS (even if you don’t), you should definately create an SPF (sender policy framework) record for your domain. It helps in the prevention of SPAM and has been widely adopted by AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc. Microsoft has an easy online wizard to help you create your own [...]

September 30, 2006

United States Constitution…

You never know when you may need to looks something up…or…whatever.  Link.

September 29, 2006

Sirius Streaming…

Sirius is now offering their online streaming at 129k downstream…or “CD-quality” music.  It’s freakin’ awesome and sounds damn good.  Just thought I’d share with everyone… 

September 29, 2006

Futurama Returns!

I know I’ve written about this previously…and I don’t care.  Futurama is coming back, with all new episodes in 2008.  Here is a quick home-made promo from Speedbump Studios.  Link.

September 29, 2006

F-22 Raptor

I’m sure you’ve seen this badass plane before, but I had to post about it as Congress agreed that the U.S. military needs more of them.  These damn things are unreal.
Still, even these critics concede that the plane is an engineering marvel, a Maserati of the skies. It can fly at 60,000 feet, twice as [...]

September 29, 2006

Trickle Theory

Very long article but 110% worth the read.  All about managing the “tasks” in your life, how you look at them, and how to go about getting them done.  Link.

September 29, 2006

MOO

A pretty cool service for your Flickr pictures.  Moo takes them and makes mini cards that you can customize to your hearts content.  Link.

September 28, 2006

RAID

Just a quick post for those of us who come across RAID and seem to freakin’ forget what the levels mean:
A quick summary of the most commonly used RAID levels:

RAID 0: Striped Set
RAID 1: Mirrored Set
RAID 5: Striped Set with Distributed Parity

Common nested RAID levels:

RAID 01: A mirror of stripes
RAID 10: A stripe of mirrors
RAID [...]

September 28, 2006

Flurry

Great service for your cell phone. Flurry checks your email (from any ISP) and even sends RSS feeds right to your cell (that way the 17 people subscribed to my feed, can read my blog anytime/anywhere)    .  All free…minus whatever data plan you have with your service provider. It’s very fast [...]