The Onion: Organizers Fear Terrorist Attacks On Upcoming Al-Qaeda Convention
Bush Wins Al Qaeda Endorsement
Read the story from Fox News of all places.
Read MorePetals Around the Rose logic puzzle
Found this interesting puzzle on BoingBoing. I figured it out. Can you?
Read MoreIshkur's Guide To Electronic Music v2.5
Someday when I have a kid, the young squirt will sit upon my knee and ask:
Read MoreRevenge Of The Frogs
How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men
Someone pointed this out to me on Amazon.com. A book entitled How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men.
Read MoreFUNNY: Afro Ninja
This is an animated gif. If it’s not animated, then you’re not seeing what I see.
Read MoreUnderstanding How Much POP3 Is Not Scalable
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.
Read MoreU2 to Release 'Atomic Bomb' New Album in November (Reuters)
Best. Band. Ever.
Read MoreThe Laugh Factory's Latino Night
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.
Read MoreTrouble With Your Firewall Software After Installing Windows XP SP2?
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.
Read MoreImproving The CommentAPI And Comment Moderation
One thing that bothers me about the CommentAPI is that the only response you get is the HTTP status code.
Read MoreBush TV Ad If He Were Running Against Jesus
This cracks me up.
Read MoreIt's The Output Stupid! (What Makes a Great Influencer, Hacker, and Writer?)
I read with amusement this
recent post on
Scoble’s blog in which someone
writes him a note dictating the tools that “Influencers” use.
007 Uses RSS Bandit
Dare puts this quote from Tim Bray up on his blog.
Read MoreWSE 2.0 Authentication: How To Avoid ClearText Passwords With UsernameToken
RSS Bandit Is Tight
Found this on Wesner Moise’s blog. He’s discussing the performance implications between managed and unmanaged code.
Read MoreTablet PC Question? M200 Or Not M200?
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.
Complaint Letters for Personalized Plates
My favorite “offensive” license plate is:
Read More.NET SP1 Can Break HttpWebRequest (and certain RSS Feeds)
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.
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