Stolen CSS

I stole Sonia's [<http://sonia.sdf1.net] CSS file temporarily while we are working on the new site design. This green design is not the final look -- far from, but it will do much better than the ugly basic look we had going for a while.

Major merger announcement

In what may look like a hostile take over akin to Comcast taking over Disney, Shannon (my wife) and I have merged our blogs together. Coupled with our new look(coming soon I swear) Shannon will bring her point of view on technology, life and anything else that may come

Choking on an ice cube

Eeny posted an entry [http://eeny.sdf1.net/archives/002318.html] that listed a number of hints to get you through life, but one of them reminded me of a funny true story:> Helpful Hint #1 If you are choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply

Firebird is no longer, Welcome Firefox?

First we had Phoenix then we had Firebird, now Firefox. All of them are the same Mozilla based browser they just keep changing the name, “To avoid overlap with another open source project, we have also decided to changed the name of this product from Mozilla Firebird to Mozilla Firefox.

Chili Recipe

A friend of mine emails me in a panic, he needs a recipe for chili and he needs it now! I'm no where near a cookbook or even my spice rack and now I need to come up with something totally off the top of my head. Lucky

Ripkin Speaks

Sparked by my blog entry entitled 'Humble and Fred gone bye-bye [http://ddll.sdf1.net/archives/001848.html]' was a thread about the total loss of talent at MOJO radio. Ripkin being one of the radio personalities that were lost, and the rumors and speculation started to fly

Cable modem uncapping

Ever since Cable Internet providers started putting on caps for people's upload/download rates, there have been people who wish they could remove said restrictions. And according to this article [http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7977] by Kevin Poulsen, it has been done. The kit can be found

Mars blog

The Mars Rover has its own blog [http://www.markcarey.com/mars/], even Spirit in its once non-functional state was able to post to it. the blog is cute, and posts interesting pictures taken from the Mars Rover, plus it helps you keep up to date with any technical issues

Anti-blogging rant

Over at kuro5hin.org there is an ahem article called 'Why your Movable Type blog must die [http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/2/171117/8823]' where the author rants on and on about old bugs in Movable Type, bloggers in general, and how we bloggers fuck

Buy your way into Orkut

You can buy your way into Orkut [http://www.orkut.com] through eBay [http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&krd=1&from=R8&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=orkut] ... how sad is