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ICANN changed the rules regarding domain names. I don't know the details, but GoDaddy sent me an email suggesting I "lock" my domain. Apparently if somebody challenges your domain and if there is no answer within 5 days the domain will transfer automatically. I locked my domain, no clue how that protects me. It was free to get locked down, so why not?

Hmmm, thought I paid for the domain for a long time. WTF? Well I guess it's time to go domain grabbing again.

Had Thnxgiving at mom & dad's.

Here's the people breakdown:
M&D (2), M&D's friends (3), me (1), Sis (3).

Here's the critter breakdown:
M&D (2 pugs), M&D's friends (4, 3 pugs + 1 Australian Shepard), me (0), Sis (2 lab mixes).

Think my folks have joined a pug cult.

Was going to pick up Neverwinter Nights for the mac and an Airport Express today at CompUsa. Couldn't find a parking spot, they had a freaking searchlight in the lot. What was so special about today? Day before Thanksgiving...so that means a searchlight in the lot. I thought day after Thanksgiving was "busiest shopping day of the year", today is "heaviest travel day of the year".

love this song. Unicorns present Jelly Bones. Beware, that site don't work right in Safari, imagine it don't work right in non IE browsers.

This is so cool. Had no idea you could control an Airport Express with SlimServer. Read about it here. I can get an Airport Express for my living room, and since I usually have my iBook in my living room...the fact that the the Airport Express doesn't come with a remote control or any type of display doesn't matter anymore. My laptop will be the display AND the remote, two great tastes that go great together!

Still need to get a SqueezeBox for my basement, and possibly one for the bedroom. They come in fancy colors now, glad I've waited to buy.

Found the battery charger for my camera. I hid it in the camera case, who knew. Soon to be posting pictures of my new portable pc. Gonna shove all the component pieces into my "Tuffbox". A kind of tackle box I used while in college to hold tubes of paint and paint brushes. Pretty sure I can fit all the junk I need, full size power supply, mini-itx mobo, 160 gig HD, CD burner.

Delicious Library don't work no more. Need a new demo version, or something.

Good news, new version didn't wipe out the few things I put in, yeah!!!

I bought my digital camera (EPSON PhotoPC 750Z) before USB was fashionable, so I needed to get a memory card reader to get images off the camera onto my iBook. Now I can post pictures, once I find my battery charger. Here's one that was on my memory card.



That pickle kinda looks like a baby's head, wierd. It was yummy and very crunchy. Had to floss to get the hairs out of my teeth. Wait...

Oh My God!

Planned Parenthood Pickles are people! and delicious.

Visit your local Planned Parenthood today for a jar of pickled babies.

Why is it so difficult to make my Mac print to my Lexmark e210? Couldn't find the disc that came with the printer, so went to Lexmark's site to download a driver. Ended up d/l'ing a server program and a client program...WTF??? I don't get it, can't print. I must've searched wrong, just need a driver to print, no server, no clients.

This printer is plug and play in windows, and linux, starting to hate my mac.

My linkstation claims to work as a print server, but I couldn't get it to work either. Arrrghhhh!

Read about this site today. The first article I read didn't mention the website name, but a little googling and I found it. On the site you can control a camera and aim a .22 rifle to shoot real bullets at real targets, and maybe soon, real live animals.

Not sure what I think about this. Is it cool? Or scary? I've never shot a gun in real life but have done it countless times in video games. I imagine the experience aiming and firing a real gun over the 'net feels more like a video game. I think if you're hunting you should have to face the reality of killing the prey, that includes gutting and cleaning the carcass yourself.

check it out, costs around 15 bucks a month to be a member. live-shot.com

Made a mistake in addition while asking for change at the bank today. A thousand dollar mistake. Silly underpaid teller didn't check my addition and gave me too much money. I think technically I committed a crime and could've been arrested. I'd rather not lose my right to vote for Ralph Nader, so I was glad when the bank called and pointed out my poor math skills and gave me an opportunity to return the extra thousand dollars before any authorities were called. I happily complied, and am not in jail tonight, yet.

Can't make the lunchbox PC, too small to fit all the junk. The tiny power supply I bought doesn't work, so I'm going to use one of the full sized ones I have lying around.

Now I'm thinking I might use the box my iBook came in for a case...but that's too big, I'll have to look at that box, if there's a plastic handle on it, maybe. Or just attach all the components to my desk and leave them out in the open. The desk has an area built-in to house a mid sized tower computer case, so plenty of room, but that's not very portable.

At least the mini-itx mobo works and is running Fedora Core 2 for the time being. Once I figure out where to put the mini I'll try installing Fedora Core 3 over the internet, how exciting!

My favorite radio progrum has launched an official website. Too bad they don't stream it, or offer the full shows for download. I didn't really look at the store yet, are there any christmas sweaters?

might as well link to these show related folk too. Joe, the world's oldest phonescreener, Tom "the monster" Gavin, a fantastic speller, Dennis Murphy, half tongued, one armed CPA.

Tom and Dennis don't get much time on the show anymore, but they started their websites years ago. Homo Joe's site seems to have died, don't think he died...or did he?

Very disappointed the audio is in Windows Media format. Must be the damn CBS lawyers.

Asked a wrong question I guess. Drama will be forthcoming. Don't care to lay out any details to protect the people affected. Stupid google ads.

Saw a dude in a gas station today. He was black, or was he? All of his features were white, I mean no question a white guy, but his skin was black. Think he worked somewhere that would make you black until you bathed. I wanted to ask him about it, but feared I'd seem racist.

I guess freakysims.net is no more. Not a sims fan so much anymore, although there is The Urbs coming, or already out. Halo 2 was just released, $100 million plus sales today. Wow, games make more than movies.

Have a feeling the site owner might be in distress, or maybe he got Halo 2 and is playing online.

I couldn't get online for a couple of days, not sure why, now my mac seems sluggish...anyway

Just downloaded Delicious Library, an OSX only cataloging / database program. It is way cool, heard about it on The Screensavers. If I had an iSight camera I could scan barcodes from books, games, dvds and they would automatically be imported into the database. Alternate ways to input stuff are with some bluetooth scanner you can buy, or type in the UPC/ISBN. That is if Delicous Library can find it on Amazon, if not on Amazon you can fill in all the info manually, or throw the item out (that's what I'm doing, filling it out manually, not throwing it out).

Delicious Library steals images and info off Amazon based on the UPC or ISBN of your game or cd or dvd. Kinda sucks for me since some of my cds and dvds come from places like BMG or Columbia House, for example the number that's on my copy of Hellboy (bought from Columbia House DVD Club) doesn't match anything on Amazon.

The demo version will allow you to input 25 items, after that it's 40 bucks to buy. I'm digging the demo, since I have a whole lot more than 25 things I'll probably be buying it. If you have a Mac check out the demo from Delicious Monter.

Just watched Fahreneit 9/11. Makes me want to join the Army. Change things from the inside. I reckon I'd be an officer right away because of my college degree...I could draw pictures of blown up people.

A superduper extra crazy pricey set of "Criterion Collection" DVDs is on sale. I want that for XMas. As a non believer I look at XMas as a ... exchange of gifts between loved ones. If I get it somebody won the lottery, or they are trying to buy my love.

Today G4TechTV had a review of wireless audio devices, linked to here, in a nutshell they are flat out wrong.
Slim Devices is the right choice period. The Roku is a distant second.

SlimServer is open source, all of those products could've used it if they wanted to. Roku might be cool if you are iTunes (non purchased) only, but sheesh you can tell SlimServer to use your iTunes folder, so there's no real difference. I'm sad Kerry isn't winning, so this post might be no make sense.

F'ball Bush might be winning. I don't understand how so many people could vote for Bush. Plain don't get it. Where can I go as an ex-patriot? Canada is nice. Always wanted to go to Australia. New Zealand is a gorgeous country. Maybe somewhere in Central America, or Mexico...

Some might be suicidal if Kerry doesn't win, or just suicidal in general, all I know is that Venom, or any Satanic band is stupid by the very fact that they are Satanic.

Here are some links, the first one is an idea I had for this site, too late I guess.

fecalgram

Ex-pat info

Do pugs ever stop shedding? Sheesh, hair everywhere. Staying at my folks place for who knows how long and they've got a couple of pugs. I would think that in the cold weather they'd keep as much hair as possible. Maybe when it gets colder.

iPhone glass replacement kit showed up today. The glass in the kit was broken. Shoot.

Dummy at work told me that today. He voted, but didn't vote for president, just local elections. All because of the electoral college system we have, his lame state of Idaho only has 4. He claims that he hates the electoral college system and would rather that the popular vote would prevail. Hey dummy, you didn't vote for president, so yours didn't count period. Obama won the popular vote as well.

The movie still sucks, but it looks a lot better in Blu-Ray. I will say that you can sort of tell the bad guys from the good guys in the higher def version. Viewing the DVD version I couldn't really follow the action, or tell which robot was which. To be honest I was catching up on email and stuff during the heavy CGI scenes. Just wanted to see what's her name in a belly shirt and short skirt in high def.

I've seen that people take credit for my work. Not difficult work, took me 15 minutes or less to do it, squeezed it out before I left on Friday. Emailed the result of my work to the coworker that requested it. Subsequently read an email where that coworker claimed that they created it, they may have edited it, but don't take full credit. Just gives me more reason to hate on folk. This particular coworker couldn't have created it ever. Best to move on if able. Will be with some folk this weekend that might have some options.

It's obvious. Why even debate it? If you look at Kristen Wiig's nose in "Walk Hard" and how it looks on the most recent episodes of SNL, it's clear that she had a nose job. I personally think she looks better.

WTF does "opposed defending marriage" mean? Does that mean he or she thinks homos should be able to get married? Fucking christians need to learn that America isn't a theocracy yet. Are there any non-religious congresspersons or senators?

I just bought a new glass screen and tools to replace it off eBay. Shit is coming from Hong Kong. Why do they call it 2G? That 2G stuff confuses me. Anyway, even if it's the wrong size it was only around 14 bucks. Isn't the 3G iPhone the second generation? They claim it fits a 4 gig iPhone, so that would be a first generation iPhone.

A local company can replace the busted glass screen on my iPhone for "... $65 (parts), $10.88 Shipping, and $35 labor...", so hmm, math, let's see 110.88. Cheaper than sending it back to Apple. Too bad I don't have some other phone lying around I could put the sim card into during the repair time. They say 5-10 days turnaround. Would they need to have my iPhone the whole time? Need to find out what it would cost to get out of my ATT contract. Then go T-Mobile and G1, depending on what it costs to dump ATT. Although, I'm liking an App on the iPhone called GasHog that helps you track how many miles per gallon you get, and what the fuel costs per mile.

That G1 looks goofy, has no standard headphone jack, doesn't play video, not truly open thanks to T-Mobile, has a 2 year contract like ATT.

Fuck it, I'm stuck. Maybe I'll get the 3G iPhone instead and sell the busted one to help offset the cost. I'll have to make sure to take blurry pictures of it.

It was very easy to setup the first 3 times. Why 3 times? Well, I'm trying to use Boxee on it and that requires some work, not really, but I tried it over again when samba wasn't working. Still need some work to get samba shares to load. All the iTunes stuff works great, I can stream any media in my iTunes library fine, movies I've bought, podcasts, music I've bought. What I really want is samba shares to work. That will involve some ssh and ftp work. NitoTV may be the answer. Not a novice to ssh or ftp so I'm not scared about it, just too late in the day to tackle it tonight.

BTW: Never knew I could boot from a USB card reader.

BTW 2: The 2.2 Apple TV update included 1080p.