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BlogThing: What Color Should Your Blog Be?

Your Blog Should Be Green Your blog is smart and thoughtful – not a lot of fluff. You enjoy a good discussion, especially if it involves picking apart ideas. However, you tend to get easily annoyed by any thoughtless comments in your blog. What Color Should Your Blog or Journal Be?

Self-Googling again

I suppose I’ll go in to work today for an hour or so. The ADHD got the better of me of Friday and I burnt out at about 5PM. But before I go in, I think I’ll surf the Internets. Let’s see who is linking to me. The Bipolar Planet has been in existence since […]

Take a Bite Out of Crime

IOL: Inventor of rape device prepares for launch A controversial device, which its inventor claims clamps itself to a rapist’s penis forcing him to seek medical treatment and be revealed to the police, will be launched by a South African woman on Wednesday. The “Rapex” device is inserted into the vagina by a woman who […]

The Continuing Saga

The continuing saga of the Linux Laptop. The battery wasn’t warranted, so I didn’t expect it to work. It didn’t. I ordered a new battery on ebay, should be in early next week. S’okay, I have an AC adapter to use until then. I borrowed a LinkSys WUSB11 USB network I/F from work to try […]

The End of the Age of Aquarius

I graduated high school in 1975. The world was in constant change from the time I was little. New paradigms all around. Students protesting an unjust war, many minorities fighting for equality. A great human awareness of our place on the planet and in the cosmos. Even the pop music carried the message. O Brave […]

Linux laptop

Update: The laptop arrived and it knows both that it is a Compaq and that it currently is running Windows 98. I’ll spend a bit of time documenting the hardware configuration and obtaining drivers before starting the conversion to Linux. To reiterate, I bought an ancient laptop from Bob Johnson.com – a Compaq Presario 1235 […]

Driving and Cell Phones

Drivers using cell phones more likely to crash – Wireless World – MSNBC.com. I don’t think I need to comment on the content of this article. It sure took MSNBC a long time to figure it out. driving + using cellphone = menace

Hacking the vacuum cleaner

New use for those robotic vacuum cleaners. What sort of add-ons could you have for the Roomba? Angle: For the Roomba, there is a group that’s working very seriously and looking at the idea of using the Roomba as a physical avatar. I might log into a Web page and see what the robot sees, […]

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