Category: Geek Stuff

Thanks to technology, seeing isn’t always believing. Wired News has an article about the flood of digitally altered phony photos circulating around the ‘net. They included some examples that I had seen before. I guessed this one was fake when I saw it, but I really believed this one was real. Besides warning me that… Continue reading Candid Camera or Photoshop?

A former boss sent me this link, and was kind enough to point out that it was not personally directed at me, but I might know some people who need to see it. Indeed, it looks (and sounds) like a good generic response to much of the sh..tuff I seeem to be dealing with recently.

I decided to do a little cosmetic touching up on this thing, and make it look more like a real blog. In the process, I realized that there were some major differences in the way different browsers were displaying it. I\’ve tried to achieve a format that\’s reasonably consistent, without driving myself crazy with a… Continue reading Notice Anything Different?

This piece of Spam I got this morning was amusing for a couple of reasons.

Like any other progressive state, Kentucky was providing election results online on election night. And, like any other system that only sees peak load once a year, their web server wasn’t up to the demand. It handled the load pretty well for the first hour or so after the polls closed, and the interface was… Continue reading The advantages of being a dinosaur

Or maybe St. Hubert just really wants me to stay home and clean my house today. Looking outside, I just couldn\’t resist the call of the hunt. So I decided I could at least go out enjoy the weather and take some pictures. I figure the digital camera saves me roughly $10/roll on film and… Continue reading I\’m Getting Senile

This thing finally got big enough for the older entries to drop off the bottom. (It displays the 40 most recent entries). I still haven’t gotten around to adding a fancy calendar to it. In the meantime, to make the older stuff readily available, I’ve added a month selector at the bottom. I might ask… Continue reading Housekeeping

“Wardriving”, for those not up on the latest geek buzzwords, is a popular pursuit of wireless computing junkies. They drive around with their laptops, looking for insecure wireless networks that (usually unintentionally) provide free internet access, and possibly sensitive information, to the wardrivers. According to this Wired News article, participants in the WorldWide WarDrive discovered… Continue reading All Wired Up With No Place to "Go"

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to see Doonesbury lampoon this fad right after I get sucked into it. Here’s Monday’s strip; I suspect we’re in for a week of this. I searched briefly for a forgotten quote from Hunter Thompson about Garry Trudeau (in reference to the Duke character), but couldn’t find it. That’s… Continue reading Doonesbury Does Blogs

Ah … what a way to start the week. A couple hours late to work, after dealing with an equine event at home that deserves its own chapter, when I get around to it. Don’t even get the office door unlocked before I get hit with the latest TSM problem. Nothing that needs immediate attention,… Continue reading Monday Morning Wonders