Category Archives: Web/Tech

Bush Crashed My Desktop

F'ing thing all of a sudden got these major slowdowns, and I cannot even run any f'ing programs long enough to do any scans before the f'ing thing locks up. Must be George W Bush's fault, I know it. Yes, I tried safe mode, and system restore. Nope, no change. Tried lots of things, to […]

Video For Your Mobile Phone/PDA

Do you have a mobile phone/pda that plays video? Ever wonder how to get vids on it? Well, problem solved, here's the 411. First, you need to get the video in a proper state. More often, when you download them from the web, they are going to be in flash format. And a great site […]

Banned At YouTube

Hosted on Flurl Video Search – Watch More Videos As recommended by the All Seeing Pirate Ragnar at The Jawa Report, tried uploading the Michelle Malkin video that YouTube banned to my YouTube account. It was “Rejected (terms of use violation.)” Figures. Ragnar recommends not abandoning YouTube, and he is right. On the flip side, […]

Cell Phone Etiquette

Because it is Cell Phone Courtesy Month Virgin Mobile offers tips on proper cell phone etiquette. Here are a few more Do not scream obscenities into the phone at the top of your lungs, unless you are at home Do not accuse that nice person at the cell phone store of cutting your phone off because […]

WTW: Web Surfing At Work Same As Reading A Magazine

  As long as the mag isn’t Playboy or Penthouse (from WRAL) A ruling in New York should come as a relief to people who have a habit of checking out the Internet at work. A judge has ruled that use of the Internet is no more goofing off on the job than reading a […]

Michael Crook Still Sucks

I was getting some strange hits from Wikipedia regarding Michael Crook, the “Forsake The Troops” wackadoodle. Finally tracked them down, seems a few of my articles regarding an attempt to get McDonalds to smack him down for trademark infringement are at Wikipedia. A few hits are not worth the trouble this a**hole has caused.

Damn, I hate to do this

But, to be fair, I have to give Kosbat the credit for finding this source, called Newseum, which allows people to scan the front pages of over 435 papers from 45 countries. Pretty cool, plus lots more stuff on their home page. Hey, if I am going to take shots at him, gotta be fair […]

Calling all geeks

OK, here is the deal. Beth at MVRWC is looking for a special little java type applet. I’m not going to say what it is, because that will be a surprise for when it is done, and I have about given up on it, it is a bit beyond what my knowledge base is. I […]

The HDTV thing

OK, so I got my new HDTV a few weeks ago using points accumulated for a sales contest. A nice 30" Toshiba widescreen. I was psyched. Movies looked great, got the component cables to hook up the XBOX, which bump it to 480p, though, I found out that my cheap Audiovox portable with composite cables […]

Best Spyware Killer

Ahoy, maties. I would like to introduce ye to the best spyware killer program yet. The Spyware Doctor. I made the serious mistake of downloading Grokster, which contains an enormous amount of spyware and malware, and I could not get rid of it using Adaware or MacAfee. So, I tried a few different programs, and […]

Pirate's Cove