A Day in Paradise

A friend of mine is looking for someone to help him with a personal project of his
I’m finding it a frustration that whilst we refer to Australians and News Zealanders as ‘westerners’ our printed maps always show both countries in the far south-east.
I’ve tried using Photoshop to move both countries to the west of the […]

The problem of dog overpopulation is a real one. However, the noble goal of preventing unwanted dog pregnancy does not justify the means being used. Millions of brutal forced castrations and female genital mutilations take place every year in America. We need to put a stop to these atrocities and give every living creature the […]

Setting up my new computer, unfortunately orders got switched (dell didn’t register the first order, and then screwed up the second) and I’m stuck with Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit), and too little RAM (seems like 4gigs is the sweet spot).
Having said that, I’m pretty pleased with Vista. The user interface is much more […]

So, today is yet another travel day, this time heading back to West Palm Beach, FL. This’ll be the last time I’m over there until I bring the family over, so I have a lot to do.
It seems like whenever I’m away from home my blogging suffers. So if this is my last post in […]

As you may know, it’s a sin for a Taliban male to see a woman other than his wife, naked. He must commit suicide if he does. So this Saturday at 4 P.M. eastern time, all American women are asked to walk out of their houses, completely naked, to weed out any terrorists in your […]

This picture on andrei’s flickr feed sent me on a journey of xbox modding discovery.
Some links:

http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/
http://www.xbox-scene.com/
http://www.globe-360.com/
http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/39872/Preview_Xbox_Mods.html

that reminds me, I upgraded rockbox on my iriver h340! Been about a year since I’ve upgraded… the movie player is pretty nice. unfortunately doom seems to lock it up.

Nice toy, they are just missing a PHP interpreter.

CD Player region free hack.
The ultimate video conversion tool.
These two items have no connection, I’m just in the market for a good region-free dvd player that I can buy in the US so I won’t have a problem bringing the hundreds of region 2 dvds over. Any suggestions?

During my early morning browsing session I noticed the truth behind FF2’s choice in abbreviating the title from Jeremy’s latest blog entry “Google as our Culture“.

My name is Aaron Wormus, and I’ve been a card-carrying member of the Google Cult for 3 years. I grovel when my ranks are dumped, and squeal with joy when […]

While drinking my coffee this morning I caught up on my PHP Architect mag (yes, I am 3 months behind). The interesting bit was Marco’s rant on the “insurmountable” difficulties in code interoperability. One of the examples was why we can’t use Wordpress plugins inside Serendipity.
The fact of the matter is that it’s not […]

Anyone else see any of this?

Fire extinguisher called for in lethal injections
Tennessee’s procedure manual for executing prisoners is a jumble of conflicting instructions that mixes new lethal injection instructions with those for the old electric chair, an Associated Press review found.
Before a lethal injection, the 100-page “Manual of Execution” instructs prison officials to begin by shaving the condemned prisoner’s head […]

some “intelectual comedy” for a saturday afternoon!
notice the new mybloglog link in the sidebar and thanks ChristyZ for being my first community member

I’ve always liked M.R., he’s a focused businessman whose goals line up roughly with those of the the open source community.
Yesterday linspire annouced a partnership with Canonical to use the Ubuntu OS as the new base for Linspire (a no-brainer choice as far as I am concerned), which will have the added benefit(?) of […]