Apparently a former US Marine who worked as a liason to the Arab news network, Al-Jazeera, will be taking a job with the network when they expand operations to include an English channel this year. Apparently, he was approached by some of his contacts at the Arab news network about taking a position with […]

If you are reading this, then follow this link to get a Free copy of Divx 6 Create software. If you don’t know what it is, don’t worry. It is something that you will be using soon enough. It is good for one day only to commemorate DivX’s fifth anniversary.

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Ok, this is great. I have to go and replace the padlock protecting my bikes now. Check out the Beer Can Padlock Shim.

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I just read that Don Adams (you may know him as Maxwell Smart) passed away on Sunday of a pulmonary infection. My thoughts go out to Sean and his family. Don Adams was 82 years old.

Thanks to Deppy for pointing this one out. Here is a smoking deal on a Sony DRU-720A DVD RW drive for $20 after rebate. It even comes with a black face plate (for those of us with black cases) and a copy of Nero Burning ROM 6.6. I bought a similar drive this year […]

Well, I have been pretty fired up on News Hosting’s unlimited binary newsgroup access, but lately their retention has been kinda weak. I know they were having some issues a couple of weeks ago, but I have not seen more than about 2 weeks retention on all of the groups I use. That is kinda […]

Ok, I am sure someone will throw a grenade at me for thinking these are funny…but, they are.

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I almost forgot my nice trip to the DMV here in San Francisco this morning. I had to take care of the registration for my Tahoe as for whatever reason it did not make it to me as did the other registration and my driver’s license update. So, I noticed that the local DMV […]

Ok, so we are slated to head out to Austin for the Austin City Limits Festival. Obviously, Rita is a major concern and now that it is a category 5 hurricane. I am not really sure what it is going to look like tomorrow and I don’t think anyone is really ready to make […]

I just learned from my sister that Hulk Hogan’s wife doesn’t wear panties. I am not going to post the pic here, but if you want to see for yourself then head over to The Superficial. It is a pretty funny blog apparently written by some chick in LA. Pretty funny stuff. Oh […]

Ok, I just learned that reading directions is actually useful sometimes. I have about 1.2TB of disk space in the Media PC right now (TB stands for TeraBytes people. That comes after GB or Giga Bytes…it is a lot). I have about 56k songs on here and I have a few hundred CDs that […]

Tito just sent me a link to a site with some Tivo Tips. The coolest being the ability to change the functionality of the “skip to hash” button (the one with the right arrow pointing to a vertical line) to act as a 30 second skip forward button. This is something that MS has put […]

If you live in San Francisco, like I do, you can get secure (encrypted) WiFi intenet access from Google. If you are a dork like me, then you have certainly heard the rumors about Google starting up a free wifi network in the US. This is the first beta release of Google’s […]

We just got back from a 5 day trip to Sun Valley, Idaho where the real estate market is crazier than I thought. Danielle’s good friend Ashley Melin married Adam Ruback this weekend after an 8+ year relationship. I had the fortune of traveling to Sun Valley for the first time and to be […]

ET, I know you are out there baby. This one goes out to you big man.

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Ok, I just came across a push email client for Series 60/Symbian OS phones. It is called MailX. MailX is a subscription based push email system designed to work on phones using the Symbian Operating System. I was pretty excited when I first heard there was a push email client for my phone, […]

Ok, so we are getting to the point where us dorks have multiple data networks that we use on a regular basis and some that we use on a less frequent basis. If you have a laptop and a wireless network card (WiFi / 802.xx), then you know that this means you have to configure […]

Ok, so you have decided that you are going to try and buy into the whole concept of Home Media PCs, but you can’t play a movie or MediaPlayer crashes when you double click a file your buddy told you works on his machine. Well, you most likely do not have the right codec installed […]

Ok, so I am not a small guy. I have been trying to get up out of the water on water skis the past two weeks and I have to say…it is all about technique. First of all, future-brother-in-law TJ Bianchi gets credit for me getting out of the water. I received lots […]

For those of you on the SEO circut, you are familiar with Dazzlin Donna. Donna lives in a small town in Louisiana and recently updated here blog on SEO Scoop about her personal experiences with hurricane Katrina. I don’t think we are going to really know the extent of the damage and hardship Katrina […]