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Bootleg RSS: TV Edition is a neat new way of using RSS. Here you will find a collection of television channel listings for a large selection of channels sorted by timezone. All these feeds are valid RSS 2.0 that you can stick into your favorite RSS reader or aggregator. Bootleg RSS: TV Edition
When Glen Richardson decided to create his own home office, it was done with his four young children foremost in mind. And no, he didn’t build the workspace in a secluded corner of his basement. Instead it was planted in the hub of his home, right next to the living room. Houses evolving to suit […]
This has been bugging me for YEARS! Thank goodness I’m not the only one with this pet-peave. 🙂 : Email: ‘The word ’email’ or its variants such as ‘e-mail’ properly describes a system of communication electronically. It does not denote a message. So “I sent you an email” should more properly be “I sent you […]
The overall quality of Internet phone service still lags behind traditional landlines, according to a study released Tuesday. Vonage tops study of Net phone service
I got this working on my XP Pro box and my Airpanel, works as stated. 🙂 … Windows XP does not allow concurrent sessions for its Remote Desktop feature. What this means is that if a user is logged on at the local console, a remote user has to kick him off (and ironically, this […]
Austin executives have the second shortest commute in the country, according to a new study. Austin execs enjoy one of shortest U.S. commutes
After 15 years fielding the car seen as the pinnacle of Japanese automaking, Honda says it will kill its $90,000, 175-mph Acura NSX late this year. Acura puts kibosh on aging but loved NSX
I’ve been looking for a great pair of COMFORTABLE headphones for my iPod for quite some time now, and after some searching and listening I decided to get a pair of Bose Triport Headphones off of eBay… I ended up paying about $110 (including shipping) for a used blue pair, which beats the $149+tax+shipping street […]
I’ve always run Squid on my home linux router. But I recently went through an overhaul in my home office, and tried to silence everything and anything I could since all the whirring fans were so loud I couldn’t think. During that process I replaced my linux router with a Linksys WRT54GS and loaded it […]
Possessive cockerels use fake sex to keep their hens faithful. By merely mounting females – without bothering to waste precious sperm – cocks ensure their partners will not go looking for male competitors to fertilise them, a new study suggests. The finding may explain why males of many species – from insects to mammals – […]
Testing 1-2-3… if I understand how this works, this should post about 1p today. 🙂
Long before smoothies and Frappuccinos there was the Slurpee. The slushy, colorful 7-Eleven brand – and American icon – turns 40 today and is still popular for the same reasons it caught on back then: fun, variety, “brain freeze” and colored tongues. Slurpee celebrates 40 years of ‘brain freeze’ Also, you can get a FREE […]
Don’t try this at home kids: Fun With Dynamite
Want to complain on Dell’s website about its customer service? Too late – the Customer Support Forums, operational until last Friday, have been shut down, apparently to try to quell bad publicity there about Dell products and especially after-care service. Want to complain about Dell? Forget it
The Inquirer’s Charlie Demerjian reports Cingular customer service has admitted to a nationwide problem with their network that manifests itself by intermittently dropping incoming calls right to voicemail, and — worse — without notification of incoming voicemail, either. Apparently, they can fix the problem manually if you ring them… Cingular having US-wide network problems? The […]
Fascinating stuff… I have no idea if they’re doing this in the US, but its good to know: If you are unfortunate enough to either lose or even worse have your phone stolen you should report it to your service provider (your network) immediately! Your service provider can then blacklist the handset so that it […]
Was the gallery thing hard to do? -Dirk Actually, not at all… just a PHP include. Here’s more info here on how to do it: http://www.gallery-addons.com/ You can find the specifc Newest Album code there, along with the older Random Block generator that ships with Gallery as of late.
July 1, 2005 Dear Time Warner Cable Road Runner Customer: We wish to inform you of a proposed settlement of a class action regarding Road Runner customers. A settlement of this class action has been proposed that may affect the price of your high-speed Internet service if you choose to own your own cable modem. […]
People have been complaining for some time now that comments were busted… in reality, I got so tired of comment-spam I just trashed the comment system so I wouldn’t have to deal with it anymore. As of now, I’ve re-enabled comments. Enjoy. 🙂
I just learned that Text America finally supports RSS again. The RSS feed for my moblog is: http://riggedup.textamerica.com/rss.aspx So it looks like you just postpend “rss.aspx” on the end of any moblog on TA that you want to track.
Ok, I finally made the switch to WordPress. A few things I’ve learned: WP is pretty cool Most WP plugins are outdated Those WP plugins that aren’t outdated, are a pain in the ass to install There aren’t very many plugin’s worth installing You might want to update your RSS feed URLs, the new ones […]
Think Star Trek: You are here. You want to go there. It’s just a matter of teleportation Teleportation: Express Lane Space Travel
General Motors Corp.’s “Employee Discount for Everyone” program sent the automaker’s sales soaring last month to the highest monthly total in two decades and allowed it to unload huge amounts of inventory. Now, Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG’s Chrysler Group are launching pricing schemes of their own. Auto Industry Discounts Have Downside
Allowing ‘morning-after’ contraceptive pills to be sold over the counter does not increase their use, suggesting that easy availability does not lead to an upsurge in unprotected sex, British investigators report. ‘Morning-after’ pill doesn’t increase unsafe sex
Why Not To Wear Baggy Clothes
Accident with Policeman
Scientists have proposed two new techniques for growing meat in a lab by a process that could one day make beef cows obsolete. Cow-free Beef Proposed
Bad Cop
Prius is comfortable, a festival of technology and unquestionably cleaner-burning than the VW can be today with only high-sulfur diesel fuel available. But the real-world mileage of pleasant-driving Jetta was better than that of Prius, and diesel fuel typically was 16% to 20% cheaper than unleaded gas. Jetta lived up to its one-tank billing. Prius […]
This is really slow on my Nokia 6820, but it does work…. I think this is actually the first useful app I’ve ever installed on this S40 phone. Mobile GMaps is a free piece of software that displays Google Maps and Keyhole satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones or other devices Mobile GMaps
Pulp Fiction Tune Played With A Kitchen Blender
This is a collection of pinouts that I’ve gathered over the years and umpteen hours of buzzing out cables Chan’s Pinouts Page
Classic99 is a freeware TI-99/4A emulator for Windows 9x. Classic99 runs most stuff fine Classic99
This four-step wizard will guide you through the process of creating a new SPF record for your DNS domain. Sender ID Framework SPF Record Wizard
Art of Moving was established in 1987 to make the moving experience more manageable and reliable. We move every day and each project is informed by the hundreds of relocations we have completed over the years, throughout the country. Art of Moving
Certain items in your house practically scream “toss me” when their prime has passed. That mysterious extra white layer on the Cheddar? A sure sign it needs to be put out of its misery. Chunky milk? Down the drain it goes. Surprising Expiration Dates
Greylisting is a new method of blocking significant amounts of spam at the mailserver level, but without resorting to heavyweight statistical analysis or other heuristical (and error-prone) approaches. Consequently, implementations are fairly lightweight, and may even decrease network traffic and processor load on your mailserver. Greylisting
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. Boffins create zombie dogs
Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) has been sounding out institutional investors on whether to sell off U.S. mobile operator T-Mobile USA or spend billions of dollars to expand the business, according to fund managers. Deutsche Telekom may sell T-Mobile USA
Regular doses of vitamin C will not prevent a cold in most people – though they might reduce its duration slightly, according to a major new review of existing research. Regular vitamin C does not prevent colds