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Using Facebook to launch a Botnet army

Published Sat, Sep 6 2008 13:07 | William

Wired has a piece talking about how easy this would be to do. It's not entirely speculative since researchers built such a beast. I think the hype is a bit much though. The argument they make could be made for any mechanism that can get people to...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Security, Privacy

Chrome's EULA

Published Thu, Sep 4 2008 11:32 | William

Yah, I'm probably like the 10 trillionth person to post about it, but until now I hadn't really had a chance to look at it. This morning Gizmodo had a piece on it which definitely makes you shake your head thinking WTF. However like most things...

Filed under: Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Chrome

Create a Mobile office with Windows Mobile

Published Wed, Aug 13 2008 8:23 | William

With such a compelling title, I figured the article would be quite intriguing . I've had a lot of phone drama recently, dropping my WM 6.1 Dash and breaking it, leaving the replacement on the roof of my car and driving off, buying another imate but...

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Mobility, Windows Mobile, iPhone

Utter Coolness compliments of Roku

Published Thu, Jul 3 2008 16:01 | William

My first Roku Soundbridge joined the family back in 2005. As far as wireless media players go, it was a bit pricey. But it looked really cool and I got it through a special offer making it a lot more reasonable. The form factor and styling was the main...

Filed under: News, Roku, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Open Source

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Published Thu, Jan 24 2008 23:05 | William

This is a pretty kick a55 video, I especially like the creepy background music. Tom Cruise better whip out some of his OT7 powers and teach Anonymous a lesson, huh?

Filed under: Mindless Babbling

"I don't know" is an answer we should hear more often

Published Fri, Dec 21 2007 2:25 | William

We've all heard the adage "It's better to remain silent and be thought of as dumb than to speak and remove all doubt." While this is certainly good advice, I don't think it's entirely correct. Let me digress for a moment... Tonight...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Business Travel Sucks

Published Thu, Dec 13 2007 1:09 | William

I don't remember the details exactly, but at some point in my very early childhood, me and the folks were flying to Pittsburgh for the holidays. I remember pop being really adamant about "flying 1st class so we don't have to put up with all...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling, Not Safe for Work

Calling People "Resources" doesn't make you cool

Published Wed, Dec 5 2007 14:09 | William

I know I huff and puff about this a lot, but it drives me insane. Recently, in the ADO.NET NG, a recruiter posted the following. As annoying as it is to have recruiters post in public newsgroups, do they have to talk like such tools? Moreover, I understand...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Wordpress Vulnerability

Published Thu, Nov 29 2007 15:22 | William

When I saw Bruce's post on using Google crack MD5 Hashes for you , I had to chuckle. Here's a link to the article Bruce is referencing. Once again, it shows a pretty good case of the damage that can happen by overlooking the seemingly obvious...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Security

How *not* to pick up chicks

Published Thu, Nov 29 2007 12:37 | William

Obviously these aren't being used in the field , at least I hope not. If they are being used in the field, I'm pretty sure their efficacy leaves something to be desired.

Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling

Uhhh, you're kidding right?

Published Mon, Nov 26 2007 10:56 | William

I know some men that pretty much refuse to buy feminine products for their significant others b/c they can't take the embarrassment. Personally, I always wondered a little about them b/c it seems you really have to feel shaky in your manhood to let...

Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling, Not Safe for Work

The internet addiction test

Published Wed, Nov 21 2007 12:48 | William

I scored a pretty low 33. I'm surprised, i thought I'd have done worse. However, if they substituted "computer time" with "internet" I don't think I'd have faired quite as well.

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Memes

Guitar Hero III - Misc comments and a few questions

Published Sun, Nov 11 2007 15:54 | William

When I first picked it up, I was really wondering whether or not it would be value added in any way in my life. Like I mentioned before, my TV has virtually no usage on it (until about two weeks ago) and sitting on my couch in front of the TV is not something...

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

If Brian Madsen is really a friend, then he'll...............................

Published Sat, Sep 8 2007 18:12 | William

Sahil and I have been friends for a long time since then, but to this day, he's yet to give me the Cobra, Turbin and Flute that I've been hitting him up for. Yes, I'm still salty about it. Well, I just saw this piece on how bad a55 Dingos...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Mindless Babbling

Fighting the Bull

Published Fri, Sep 7 2007 10:15 | William

A few years ago, I read a truly excellent book called Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide . I really liked it b/c I was working at a place with a whole lot of people who were really into talking in business speak and thought...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling, Cool Stuff

Impostors and phonies getting as bad as spammers

Published Tue, Sep 4 2007 3:44 | William

The community server panel , like all mainstream blog engines, has a feature that allows you to approve comments. You can create word lists to automatically filter comments in an effort to eliminate spam. You can search your comments marked spam and delete...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

JesOS (TM) The First True Christian (TM) Operating System

Published Tue, Sep 4 2007 3:09 | William

I'm probably going to hell for even reading this, let alone posting a link to it. Atheists/Agnostics and Christians that can laugh at some of the less desirable aspects of their faith will get a good chuckle out of it. If you are of the persuasion...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling

Man bites dog

Published Mon, Sep 3 2007 18:16 | William

A few of these clips are definitely NSFW b/c of the language. In fact, more than a few are. But if you look at some of Jimmy Justice's video , you'll probably laugh your butt off. Basically, he's a citizen vigilante who goes around and photographs...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Not Safe for Work

Rootkits anyone?

Published Mon, Sep 3 2007 18:13 | William

Since I was a youngster, I've always been a fan of Sony stuff. I'm old enough to have spent a few years alive before CD's came out. I was still a little guy when I got my first Sony Portable CD player. Even though there were only a few CDs...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

And Apple Basic is included for Free!

Published Sat, Aug 18 2007 18:23 | William

Twenty years from now, we'll be laughing about the same sort of stuff

Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling