if you’re interested in politics at all, here’s a very interesting article regarding yesterday’s blackout in the northeast.
[update] i also came across these before and after photos from the NOAA (thanks to slashdot).
some would call me hypocritical. i don’t think so… i would just say i’m choosy.
I particularly enjoy shopping at stores like Radio Shack and Family Christian Bookstore. Not because of what they sell (although I do enjoy killing time in both of those places), but because of what happens when i go to checkout. They ask […]
so i came to the startling realization today that classes start two weeks from monday, and I’ve yet to talk to any at the University to work out transferring credits, registerring, etc - next week is going to be all kinds of busy for me. I’m considering changing my major from computer science to pre-law. I always […]
a read at slashdot was very discouraging for those of us adamantly fighting the good fight against spammers. According to this article at Wired, a company that sells these pills accidentally put one of their order logs online or something. It revealed ~6,000 responses to these spam messages in a 4 week period. How can that many […]
in one of the mailing lists i’m on, someone noted the difficulty in learning to use a particular program by saying how it had a “steep learning curve”. well another user corrected him explaining how a “steep” learning curve actually refers to something is easy to learn, not difficult. He also provided this article for more information… a very […]
