Story of a silly, pointless, avoidable death: here. Seriously, who cares why the 3-year-old messed with a loaded gun left on the table. Prosecute the parents for endangering the child by making a loaded weapon available. Somehow making this the fault of the Wii, which does not come with a “solid black automatic-looking type mechanism” …
Category Archives: General
Mad Men meets Barbie
I’m a big fan of the AMC original series Mad Men, but somehow I think the Brooks Brothers suit designed by the costume director was a better product tie-in: Betty Meets Barbie as Mattel Launches Mad Men Collector Dolls
A Couple Blog Stats
In the last 4 years, Akismet has handled 102,497 spam comments. That’s better than 25k spam messages a year. Pretty impressive when you consider that Google Analytics says the site had less than 10k pageviews last year. I know that the spambots do not generate trackable pageviews, but it’s pretty sad that more log space …
Perspectives on Programming
Lately Mike Taylor over at the Reinvigorated Programmer has been on a roll with a couple of interesting blog posts (at least interesting enough to make Slashdot). First he blogged about deterioration of programming into pure drudgery and more recently he’s disagreed with Dijkstra on the value of BASIC as a first programming language. Here …
Why I Love Cars
Since I just posted about the Corrado, and I sometimes get asked about my fondness for cars, I thought I’d take the liberty of linking to an article from Esquire magazine that just about sums it up for me: The Conversion of an Apathetic Driver Any questions? (OK, that’s a picture of the R8 — …
Why it’s time to sell AAPL
After more than 20 years as an Apple user, and well over a decade as an investor, it’s articles like this one that have me considering dumping my stock: 5 reasons to buy Apple stock again Seriously, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the mainstream this pro-Apple. Either they’re poised to take over the industry, …
Review: CTEK 7002 Battery Charger
I’m a bit odd when it comes to car repair. I like to get my hands dirty, but I’m not really reliable enough to accomplish all the work I need to do on the cars. The result is that my Corrado is constantly in need of some attention, and recently that attention is almost exclusively …
Quick Pinball Fix
I took Anne’s advice (after much hand-wringing trying to get Virtual Pinmame working), and purchased Williams Pinball Hall of Fame (for the XBox 360). Mostly, I got this one (as opposed to the Gottlieb version) because it has two of my all time favorite pinball machine in it: Funhouse and Medieval Madness. I have to …
Last 1-800-Flowers update
I finally got a refund from 1-800-flowers. 23 days after this all started, I can close the book on this mess. For the record, don’t bother talking with them on the phone. Just go straight to the online customer support (who could have guessed).
How to Create a Software Pirate
Ubisoft has perfected a simple 4-step method for turning gamers into software pirates: 1. Release a new game with invasive DRM 2. Wait 24 hours for the obligatory cracked versions (or not) 3. Have the required DRM servers crash 4. PROFIT!!! Seriously, how could they not have expected this… I’m guessing that the DRM authentication …