This is too funny. For any foreigners or Chinese press who read this blog, The Onion is satire.

Read the story from Fox News of all places.

Found this interesting puzzle on BoingBoing. I figured it out. Can you?

Someday when I have a kid, the young squirt will sit upon my knee and ask:

Found this here on Yahoo news. What is this frog doing?

Someone pointed this out to me on Amazon.com. A book entitled How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men.

This is an animated gif. If it’s not animated, then you’re not seeing what I see.

I have the lovely task of importing a POP3 mailbox with 144524 messages into our database. I’m using a 3rd party component, but am quickly learning more than I ever wanted to know about POP3. For example, ideally you don’t want to use POP3 for large mail boxes because POP3 isn’t scalable.

Best. Band. Ever.

Last night Akumi and I attended the Laugh Factory on Sunset to see our friend and up and coming comic Rick Ramos perform. I met Rick through Kyle as the two of them went to Northwestern together and both Rick and I gave toasts at two of Kyle and Cara’s wedding receptions.

If you’re having problems with your computer after upgrading to Windows XP SP2 and you are using a software firewall such as ZoneAlarm or BlackIce, try uninstalling your firewall software and re-installing it. That solved the problem for me. BlackIce recommends uninstalling their firewall before upgrading to SP2.

One thing that bothers me about the CommentAPI is that the only response you get is the HTTP status code.

This cracks me up.

I read with amusement this recent post on Scoble’s blog in which someone writes him a note dictating the tools that “Influencers” use.

Dare puts this quote from Tim Bray up on his blog.

Aaron Skonnard mentionsthat

Found this on Wesner Moise’s blog. He’s discussing the performance implications between managed and unmanaged code.

So I am in the market for a Tablet PC and after a bit of research, the Toshiba Portege M200 is the top contender for my hard earned dollar.

My favorite “offensive” license plate is:

If you installed SP1 for the .NET framework, you may notice that certain feeds are broken and return an HTTP Protocol Error. Dare looked into this and posted an explanation and workaround to the problem.