The Rigged-Up Net

San Antonio is home to four of the highest paid executives in the country, according to an article released Friday by Forbes.com. Four San Antonio CEOs rank among the highest paid in America

Well that explains it! The city’s score makes it the worst major city in Texas for allergies. Austin ranked 26th in the country, Dallas-Fort Worth ranked 36th, Houston ranked 50th, El Paso ranked 72nd and McAllen ranked 76th. San Antonio ranks as worst city in Texas for allergies, study shows

Austin is the 10th healthiest city among the country’s 50 largest cities, according to a new study. Study: Austin among healthiest U.S. cities

People love photoshop… and there are tons of tutorials for it. But its very expensive. Gimpshop is a mod on the free and open Gimp image editor – and the UI emulates Photoshop… so if you love photoshop, but don’t want to pay for it… Gimpshop is for you. GIMPshop for Windows The GIMPshop homepage

We went to Disneyworld today and it’s supposedly the happiest place on eartth, it looked more like people were in hell. Our Orlando Vacation: Day 3 “The Happiest Place on Earth”

A researcher at the University of Alberta has shown that parents are more likely to give better care and pay closer attention to good-looking children compared to unattractive ones. Dr. Andrew Harrell presented his findings recently at the Warren E. Kalbach Population Conference in Edmonton, Alberta. Researchers show parents give unattractive children less attention

Rackspace, is once again ranked as the most reliable hosting company site this month Rackspace Most Reliable Hosting Company Site during March

Designated the HP iPaq hw6500 series, the GSM/GPRS/EDGE devices are aimed at exploiting opportunity represented by the remaining sentiment towards pocket PC/exchange devices as well as the desire amongst corporate and SME users to have instant, always-on email in the same fashion as the popular BlackBerry from Research in Motion. HP to deploy smart phones […]

So at about 2am, the building fire alarm decided to go off…. repeatedly…. over and over again until about 2:30am. As far as anyone can tell, its a false alarm. [grumble]

The way the ads appear now, it almost looks like your TiVo has been hacked by an outsider “Icon” ads over commercials at TiVo

Seeing as the new iPods don’t come with docks, and no-one wants to spend $30+ on a bit of plastic or metal to stand their iPods on, I’ve drawn up a template for a simple, functional and attractive iPod stand you can download as a pdf, print out, stick on some card and assemble. It’s […]

It used to be that when buying two new tires, they would go on the front. New research shows that they’re better placed on the rear: If the rear tires have more tread depth than the front tires, the front tires will begin to hydroplane and lose traction on wet roads before the rears. This […]

They cut spending and laid off 17 people from a staff of around 100, and were soon in the black. The result: the firm remains privately owned, and has no debt. The second setback dates to late 1999. Concerned that its increasingly extensive levels of customer service were leading it away from its roots in […]

ServerBeach was founded in San Antonio by local entrepreneur and businessman Richard Yoo. Peer 1 Network opens data center to support ServerBeach

Apple won the green light to subpoena amateur publishers for their confidential sources, a Californian Judge ruled today. Apple Computer, which wants to discover who leaked product information to three web sites, can now proceed with its subpoena against one of the ISPs hosting two of the websites, Santa Clara county court Judge James Kleinberg […]

If you’re going to swtch from one blog software to another, make a post that says something like “Hey, I’m changing the software so make note of the new RSS URL”… or something like that a day before.

For whatever reason, the vmail button on the Treo650 may have been mis-configured… this is how you fix it: 1. Hard reset the phone. 2. Setup phone until you get to Dial Pad. 3. Remove SIM card. 4. Turn Phone on. 5. Dial Voicemail – using Favorite button. (Here, my phone promts me to enter […]

I bought my 2nd and 3rd WRT54GS routers for a project this past week… one was a re-furb (unit A) and the other was brand new (unit B). It would be safe to assume that A was probably an older unit than B, but from the markings on the unit you’d never tell the difference […]

Rackspace Managed Hosting successfully completed a rigorous scrutiny by independent auditor Ernst & Young that determined the company’s managed hosting services comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for enterprise customers. Rackspace earns certification for Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance

Forget “The Big Apple.” New York now wants to be known as “The World’s Second Home.” NYC seeks to trademark a new slogan

Feeling romantic? Don’t write that love letter just yet. However heartfelt, letters and e-mail professing passion are a turnoff, says a psychology professor who has studied both for two years. It’s good to commit, just not pen to paper

Gizmondo Europe Ltd, subsidiary of Jacksonville, Florida-based Tiger Telematics Inc (OTC: TGTL; OTC: TGTL.PK), today confirmed signing with Rackspace Managed Hosting Europe for the hosting of the official website (www.Gizmondo.com), which in turn will manage many of the end user personalized services and applications for the Gizmondo handheld multi-entertainment device. Tiger Telematics(R) Racked Up for […]

Leading IT company brings e-mentoring to Hayes and Harlington school Rackspace offers helping hand to local school children

“It’s getting close to the point that you have to have a hurricane to be able to remove that heat,” said Paul Froutan, vice president of engineering for Rackspace Managed Hosting. The San Antonio firm manages big data centers for customers. Data Centers’ Quest For Cool: Heat Issues Put Servers At Risk

Regular marijuana use can harm memory and the ability to make decisions, according to Jean Cadet at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore, Maryland, US. To find out why, he monitored the flow of blood through the brains of 54 marijuana smokers, among whom the heaviest user smoked 50 joints every day. Marijuana […]

From a purely financial perspective, it’s premature to write an actual obituary for the company. In the most recent quarter, the company still had $88.5 million in cash on hand, with $7.3 million in debt. But on Friday, the company acknowledged that its most recent quarter — one that saw a major ad campaign aimed […]

International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. The state of homograph attacks

In ads and on packages, McNeil Nutritionals claims “Splenda is made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar,” according to the Sugar Association. However, the association says the final product doesn’t contain sugar. Texas consumer group is sour on Splenda sweetener

After living with PalmOne’s latest creation for a few weeks, I’ve given serious thought to hanging up on it too. A Month With the Treo 650

Evidentally, I have a fan! 🙂 One of my favorite parts of the weekday shows are when Richard Yoo is on. (My apologies for bad spelling on his name.) Poll RE: D Lawrence Please vote.

A taste for meat prompted early humans to wean their children at a young age. The idea explains why we now wean our infants years earlier than other great apes. Taste for meat made humans early weaners

Mass-market hoteliers are finally waking up to a fact that frequent travelers have long known: The bed matters. Marriott’s fresh look puts bedding concerns to rest

They’ve never met a padlock – or six-pin paracentric cylinder – they couldn’t crack. Live, from the lock-picking championship of the world. The Lock Busters

TiVo ToGo MPEG2 Decrypting http://www.evillabs.net/tivo/

Men and women use different brain areas to achieve similar IQ results, UCI study finds Intelligence in men and women is a gray and white matter

The government has a plan to help speed the arrival of digital TV and let you dump your cable box. It’s called CableCard, and it’s poised to come out from the wings, if not take center stage, in the cable TV market this year. FAQ: CableCard? What’s that?

Scientists at Okayama University in Japan have rather agreeably discovered that unidentified compounds in lager and stout may help to prevent DNA damage leading to cancer. Beer fights cancer: official

I got new tires… Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3 – all the way around. The good news is that they ride much firmer than my old Firestone Firehawk SZ50 EP’s, but I’ve only driven on them for 15mins or so. The bad news is that the installers used an impact-wrench and destroyed my locking lug nut […]

New European pedestrian safety rules could spell doom for those menacing beasts, winged ladies and interlocking letters that are among the few remaining car hood ornaments Classic hood ornaments cave to safety concerns

Some of the sharpest minds on Wall Street are betting that you’ll make more money in metals than Microsoft the next few years. The new bull market is in stuff, not stocks, they say. Real assets create real riches