A Day in Paradise

Carjackers swipe biometric Merc, plus owner’s finger | The Register
A Malaysian businessman has lost a finger to car thieves impatient to get around his Mercedes’ fingerprint security system. Accountant K Kumaran, the BBC reports, had at first been forced to start the S-class Merc, but when the carjackers wanted to start it again without having […]

This one is waiting for approval on bash
<lightcap> thats moronic.
<lightcap> either change the configs, or don’t…and if you’re going to do it haphazardly, at least output to stdout that not *everything* is updated.
<lightcap> I wish my blog was up…I’d rant like a mofo right now.

TechWeb | News | Microsoft Takes Python Scripting Language to .NET | April 4, 2005
For people who wonder what the point of the third clause of the PHP license. IronPython is a good example of the reason.
Some of the benefits of IronPython from the Introductory Blog Entry:
# Integrated with the .NET Framework - IronPython code […]

Secunia - Mozilla Products Arbitrary Memory Exposure Test
Heh, crashed firefox by testing the vulnerabilty a couple too many times. Note-to-self, don’t test vulnerabilities when you have 20+ tabs open!

Morningstar: Search Fund
Statistics Used in Manager/Advisor Analysis
Zephyr Resources - Math Corner
CoVariance Matrix
Covariance — from MathWorld

International PHP Magazine - Cutting-Edge Technologies for Web Professionals - Columns
Running a bit late due to Easter (let’s blame it on the relatives), but here’s the next installment for your viewing pleasure. I’m hoping to get another couple out this week to bring us up to date.
Question: I’d like to start […]

BBC NEWS | Business | Oil prices surge to new records
Goldman Sachs said that the oil market may be in the early stages of a “super spike”, which could push prices as high as $105 a barrel.
It said strong global demand, allied to potential instability in oil producing countries, could inflate prices.
US light crude rose […]

OK, todays Blogging will be dedicated to tracking April Fools jokes I see around the Net! They will all go into this blog entry and will have a bit of information about each gag.
Google Gulp
The traditional April 1st prank… the best part is the disclaimer “No personally identifiable information of any kind related to your […]

WordPress %u203A Home
So it seems like google has forgiven Wordpress.org and given them their 8/10 PR back. HotNacho.com is still “unranked”.

Here’s a little idea of how many visits WTS gets. These are counting Unique visitors, not hits or pages served.
Jan: 11904
Feb: 17148
Mar: 12757
the stats for the same period of last year are:
Jan: 3871
Feb: 4990
Mar: 5575
The reason for the spike of google visits as seen on Feb 05 was due to my google whoring and these […]