Simple pleasures

On Friday JoDee and I had this conversation: (Paraphrased)

(JoDee:) You know that lot across the street
(Me:) Yeah
(J:) They putting something really cool there.
(Me:) What?
(J:) A Tim Hortons
(Me:) (Unintelligible rapture)

Woo hoo!!! A Tim Hortons! In walking distance! The mind boggles at the possibilities! :)

A quick comment

Gator is spyware

Curse Words

I don’t follow baseball at all, but you have to almost feel sorry for the Chicago Cubs.

Yet another reason to not use Windows

Yet another reason not to use Windows. I’m not sure what Microsoft has to do to keep people from exploiting Windows like crazy over a network, but they need to find it in a hurry. No OS is perfectly safe, but Windows is the operating system that people are targetting, and exploiting successfully. If you [...]

Nokia N-Gage

By the way, Nokia has finally started selling their part-phone, part-game, part PDA system called the N-Gage. Unfortunately for Nokia, the masses aren’t busting the door down to get one. I’m sorry, but having a huge phone that cam play games just doesn’t interest me, and the condescending way that Nokia has marketted the device [...]

Infringe this…

SunnComm is planning to sue a student who nullified their Digtal Rights Management software using the shift key on a Windows machine. By pressing the shift key, Windows will not run the software encoded on the disc, which renders their DRM null and void. Of course SunnComm isn’t too pleased about this, since their stock [...]

Governor Arnold

I have nothing to add to this.

I-75 really screwed up

I’m glad I don’t rely on the I-75 to I-94 ramps anymore, because they recently were charred pretty badly by a horrific tanker fire. Now they’re saying they may not re-open until spring. Ouch!!!

Ximian Desktop 2

Well, I recently took the plunge on my RedHat system and installed Ximian’s Xwhich is their Gnome 2.2 desktop system. Overall, it’s a very well put together system, which is what you’d expect from Ximian. My main complaint with it, though, is Gnome’s choice of Metacity. Metacity, for those of you who aren’t familiar, is [...]