Archive for Misc
February 12, 2007 at 11:02 PM · Filed under Misc
Ugh. Time goes by so quickly. All these good intentions of posting something every few days, gone up in smoke. And I have a slew of topics in the wings too. Can someone stop the ride so I can get off? For a little while at any rate?
Ok, never mind. Here’s a quick tidbit to tide you over until the next post. Shampoo manufacturer, Robert Craig, has an interesting (and plausible) take on how shampoo should be made. It should be based on the water hardness of the region it is being sold in. Yep, that’s right. So he has developed a line of shampoos based on the hardness of the water that it will be used with. If you look at his website, you will see that he has a map of the States color-coded by general levels of water hardness in different regions.
April 10, 2005 at 11:58 PM · Filed under Misc
Ahh… these guys explain why
- I have the overwhelming urge to shove people out of their chairs so I can get in front of their computer, and fix the problem instead of explaining it to them.
- I have 20 windows open and 20 browser tabs open all at once, and I know that they are all there and what I’m doing with them.
- I’m always on the lookout for the next great shortcut or timesaver.
- I can’t stand it when people close the window that they’re going to have to open in 20 seconds again.
- How I ended up finding these blog entries in the first place!
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/07/10/nadd.html
http://www.gigaom.com/2005/04/08/internet-anxiety-disorder-anyone/
http://justinblanton.com/archives/2003/07/07/always-on
http://russellbeattie.com/notebook/1003386.html
January 29, 2005 at 12:04 AM · Filed under Cool, Misc
Got an extra US $10 million? Then you can buy a man-made island in a new real estate project being built off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.
It’s called the World, because the islands are grouped together so that the whole things looks like a map of the world. The World will consist of between 250 to 300 smaller private artifical islands divided into four categories - private homes, estate homes, dream resorts, and community islands. Each island will range from 250,000 to 900,000 square feet in size, with 50 to 100 metres of water between each island.
December 19, 2004 at 12:06 AM · Filed under Misc
Last post of the year folks, so I couldn’t resist talking about a lot of news.
First off, the New York Times is running a report on Mozilla’s Firefox browser in the wake of the recent 2-page Firefox ad in the NY Times. It’s time to stop using IE people. Firefox is at 1.0 or you can use the Mozilla suite. CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team) recommends dumping IE. If you have the bandwidth, check out this video of a machine being infected with 16 different pieces of Spyware by visting 1 web page. 1 web page.
NY Times Report:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/business/yourmoney/19digi.html
Firefox Ad: http://www.mozilla.org/images/nyt_ad_large_2004.png
Get Firefox: http://getfirefox.com
Mozilla Suite: http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
CERT: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/28/cert_ditch_explorer/
Spyware Infection video: http://www.benedelman.org/news/111804-1.html
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July 6, 2004 at 12:20 AM · Filed under Computers, Cool, Gadgets, KJH News, Misc, Tech
So what good is running a mailing list (or a blog) if I can’t plug my own stuff, eh?!
Doug (a friend I work with at ISX) and I recently built an info/review/community website that focuses on the latest gadgets, gizmos and toys.
We launched the site today and are now in a beta-testing phase. You special folks on my mailing list get to be part of the elite first-view audience. (Do you like how I’m laying on the compliments?!)
We would really appreciate it you can take a few minutes to register, log in, take a look around and give us some feedback. You can e-mail us at feedback@gizmosforgeeks.com.
And without further ado, here’s the site:
Gizmos for Geeks
September 2, 1999 at 10:13 PM · Filed under Cool, Misc, Software
Ok, there really isn’t a commercial to be aired for Linux during the next Superbowl, but this writer got to thinking about what such a commercial would be like. The cool thing here is all of the follow-on ideas that were generated by the readers. Some of them are pretty funny, and when you think about it, many of them would make really good ads. (See, you don’t need to be in Advertising to come up with this stuff, just a decent imagination).
August 19, 1999 at 9:55 PM · Filed under Misc
For those of you IT folks who work a gazillion hours every day, you
just may be entitled to overtime. Depends on what state you’re in
though. Looks like California is the state to be in to get paid.
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