Is it Friday yet?
Been busy, and that’s not counting the 12 hour road-trip back yesterday!
Garden of the Gods, for some climbing, posing, wandering, and then a picnic for lunch.
Flying W Ranch provided some background information, dinner, and entertainment. A limited menu for dinner, but what they had, was well done.
Pike’s Peak Cog Railway took us up to [...]
We arrived safely after a *checks time* 12 hour trip (stops included), which I think means we averaged 55 mph. Not bad? Missed out on the whole mountains in the horizon that just don’t seem to get any closer effect because it was cloudy (rain and thunder). Drat, but maybe next time. [...]
To replace the definitely-not-functional-now laptop I gave in and bought a MacBook Pro, with the idea in mind that it would also replace the Mac Mini which would then, in the near future, be rotated to a general purpose (a.k.a kid) computer.
For starters, Apple continues to make a good habit of under-promising and over-delivering with [...]
Solio – Portable Hybrid Solar Charger
Something to keep in mind. Given how much sun we get in these parts, it’s quite silly to waste it.
(tags: energy solar technology)
Captcha Mashup
An amusing alternative approach, similar to the select the pictures with cats/dogs/etc to prove you’re not a robot concept.
(tags: software)
Dutch court lets paedophile party contest country’s general election
Allow them and let the votes do the talking, basically. It makes sense, although as the past has shown the so-called protest-votes can skew the [...]
Fuel Conservation No Idle Matter at UPS
Saving fuel cost by preferring right turns over left turns. Hmm, will the trip planning websites start doing that too, soon? I’m confused about the comment regarding always turning off their vehicle, even when just for a few seconds. I thought starting
(tags: fuel news software [...]
Just for the hell of it I’m putting together a list of things for which I receive spam.
Casino, blackjack, poker, etc websites
Dating sites (Russian and other)
Free gifts (Armani, (Hugo) Boss, Versace)
Financial advice (stock, loans)
Medicine (viagra, cialis, ambien, valium, hoodia, xanax, tamiflu, meridia, levitra, soma, tramadol)
Software (Windows XP, Corel Draw, Photoshop, Encarta, Borland Delphi, …)
Watches (Cartier, [...]
Rembrandt’s 400th birthday marked
Sounds like fun.
(tags: entertainment history netherlands)
Space shuttle moves away from ISS
Almost homeward bound.
(tags: news space technology)
Textual harassment
Does iChat not have a block this user feature then? Surely…
(tags: im osx software)
Running a website/server with mod_security turned on is all fine and dandy, but in the end it doesn’t seem to be much more than a few hardcoded pattern-checks, like fopen. (I realize that it’s really more than that, but that’s the part I tripped over.) And as it happens, I use fopen() in [...]
Wal-Mart lowers shoplifting bar
Have at it, folks!
(tags: news weird)
CIA agent in leak furore sues Cheney and White House aides
That was only a matter of time, surely? Let’s see how that works out.
(tags: bush politics)