March 2005

  • Searching with Firefox

    Seems that Arvind is talking up some Firefox search plugins. That's cool. I really love the extensibility of Firefox and how it is so easy to add stuff to it. What I really don't get is why you'd want a search plugin. They simply aren't necessary. I mean…

  • Moron Satellite Radio

    Now I'm really sure that I'm not a demographic target. I'm apparently so far out that I can't even understand that anyone would get it on some of these things. But nonetheless, I can only assume that there is some reason for it. Companies aren't that stupid, are…

  • Lawsuit Happy

    As if the government weren't bad enough, we see another reason that illustrates exactly why we are in such a pickle. Yesterday's paper brings us this article, where we find that someone is suing Caterpillar for their role in a tragic incident. It seems that Caterpillar manufactured the…

  • Addressing Social Security

    I read another article on the Social Security debacle yesterday. This one talks about protecting the income of people over a certain threshold. That's nice, but let's face it – many of us will never meet the threshold anyway. So what do we care? What I don't get…

  • A New Day for Seniors

    Just how bad is the outlook for Social Security? Check out this story about a 96-year old crack dealer and her accomplices (all around 60 years old). Or this one, about a 92-year old bank robber. Maybe they are just frustrated about all the awards being passed out…

  • Fast Food Gloves are Useless

    Apparently using gloves with fast food is only useful in keeping up appearances. Like they needed to tell us that. I wonder if they had a grant or something for this sort of study. I could have given them the same results in an afternoon of visiting fast…

  • Curacao Day Two

    After our first day on Curacao, we decided we were ready to do some exploring. So the next day we wandered the market, which ran along the river. A huge number of boats simply pulled up and unloaded their wares. We had some fresh pineapple, as well as…

  • What Are We Doing?

    We catch a monster lobster. In typical fashion, we make a fuss about it. The lobster moves to a zoo, in order to decide if he can make it to an aquarium. The lobster dies. Now I'm generally more a proponent for the People Eating Tasty Animals than…

  • Windows XP Firewall Exceptions

    I'm installing a handful of computers today, and one of the things I'm doing is loading UltraVNC on them. Well, these computers are way behind on updates, and several of them require SP2, which as you may or may not know, turns on the firewall even if you've…