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Archive for July, 2007

Over on Slashdot is an article about California voting machines being easily hacked. Of course, the testers were provided source code, and unlimited amounts of time to crack the machines. Now, the state is trying to decide if they should de-certify the machines. This is ridiculous. Electronic voting machines will never be foolproof, nor will [...]

Shayne here at Kirkham Systems put the Oceans14.com domain to good use – he setup a prank for a buddy. There is some video there now, with more to come.

Shayne here at Kirkham Systems put the Oceans14.com domain to good use – he setup a prank for a buddy. There is some video there now, with more to come.

*May not work with your Vista computer. What a pain – Vista has been out for months, AOL 9.0 VR is supposed to work with Vista, and guess what? It doesn’t.  After the technician made sure that I had enough memory, turn off Aero, adjust for best performance, tinker with the paging file, and even [...]

Howdy partners. Gitty-up to the newest Burger King viral marketing site, Pet Moustache.

The best review I’ve seen of the iPhone by far.

I’ve mentioned using a chill pad for keeping your laptop cool before, and today Woot has a Targus Chillhub 4 Port USB Hub and Notebook Cooler for just $10.99 plus $5 shipping. Not a bad deal. Comes with a 4 port USB hub as well.

Well, it seems the latest update to Motorola Phone Tools has created some instabilities to the program, or at least Mobile Phone Tools with Vista. I know of one person that is getting a com port error, and when I use bluetooth, it returns “…if you are performing an “Over the Air” sync or backup [...]

Qila and Noah managed to get sprayed by a skunk this morning at approximately 4am – so much for sleeping in today. In case you are wondering, the skunk ended up getting the worst part of the deal – so far, the score is Backyard Critters 0, Qila 4 – but I had to deal [...]