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.

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

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.

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 [...]