If you haven’t read about it, you should check out Jetpack for Firefox. Similar to Greasemonkey it enhances the browser by having an API that allows anyone to write an add-on for Firefox using tools already available on the web. Read and download it here: https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/
So I’ve ranted about the misbehavior of people over the years on this site. Here’s a list where the author sites annoying things people do while using technology. Many of these behaviors have been featured here on my site. These are why I’m so unstable and need to visit my therapist constantly.
Click here to read the article.
Here is a list of oxymorons that I posted on this site back in April of 2004.
34. Legally drunk
33. Exact estimate
32. Act naturally
31. Found missing
30. Resident alien
29. Genuine imitation
28. Airline food
27. Good grief
26. Government organization
25. Sanitary landfill
24. Alone together
23. Small crowd
22. Business ethics
21. Soft rock
20. Amtrak schedule
19. Military intelligence
18. Sweet sorrow
17. Compassionate conservative
16. “Now, then …”
15. Passive aggression
14. Clearly misunderstood
13. Peace force
12. Extinct life
11. Plastic glasses
10. Terribly pleased
9. Computer security
8. Political science
7. Tight slacks
6. Definite maybe
5. Pretty ugly
4. Rap music
3. Working vacation
2. Religious tolerance
And the No. 1 oxymoron:
1. Microsoft Works (who uses this anyway?)
As reported by Gizmodo, the Cornficker Worm is just getting started. On April 1st the worm did exactly what it was supposed to do, quietly update itself to enable it replicate to thousands of unprotected computers. Read the whole story at Gizmodo here.
Tweets from our cat, Cosmo.
“I chased a spider into Daddy’s dresser. I wonder if it will jump out at him when he goes in there.”
“The Big Red Bird is back sitting in the Big Tree. Will he ever stop singing so I can nap?”
“Binx didn’t like his dinner so I ate his portion too.”
“I wonder how Mommy and Daddy get by without a tail”
“Today’s schedule: wake Daddy up at 6am, eat breakfast, go back to sleep, wake in time for dinner, go back to sleep, chase Binx around the house, go back to sleep.”
” I saw those big dogs in my backyard again. Mommy calls them deer.”
“More than 1,000 cities in over 80 countries observed Earth Hour 2009 on Saturday March 28th, as homes, office towers and landmarks turned off their lights for an hour starting at 8.30 pm local time to raise awareness about climate change and the threat from rising greenhouse gas emissions.”
Here’s a set of before and after images showing observances of Earth Hour around the world.
As Obama proposes a $1,000,000,000,000 rescue plan, Marcus du Sautoy offers a handy guide to the mind-bogglingly big numbers being bandied about.
To help Obama put the full scale of his rescue plan into perspective, one trillion seconds would take you back 31,709 years to the time of the hunter-gatherers. If you lined up the 1.5tn pound coins that were reported to have been wiped off the global markets on one single black Friday, they would get you from here to Mars.
Read the rest of the article here
People are often asking me to recommend them on the LinkedIn site. I am always happy to help them out. Here’s an example of one I just did earlier today:
Mark is an asset to any project. His attention to detail is unsurpassed. There is no person more creative at dodging work than Mark. Colleagues marvel at his ability to look incredibly busy and while accomplishing nothing. From an outside observer, Mark is always busy talking on the phone to suppliers, reviewing presentation materials and organizing meetings. But he is actually talking to his friends, reading the paper and taking short naps while appearing to be deeply involved with something on his computer.
A little known fact is Mark is the original author of the brilliant ‘How To Look Busy At Work’ list that so many of us utilize every day.
I’m not sure why there’s confusion about the upcoming switch to Digital TV. The current over-the-air analog TV signal is going to be shut off and replaced with a digital signal. If you use rabbit ears to to view TV, then you need a converter box. If you have cable or satellite, then you’re OK. Now that everyone understands, please stop running those annoying announcements every 10 minutes reminding us about the transition. Thank you.
What’s up with Sirius radio? I thought I read that their prices would not go up after the merge with XM. But yesterday I received an email telling me the subscription prices for our second radio will be going up and now we’ll have to pay to listen to Sirius online. On top of that, my subscription doesn’t expire until May but they are still raising my rates. I would think pre-payment would be some sort of contract that’s locked in until the next time it comes up for renewal. But I guess I’m wrong about that.
Not needing a second radio since our new car comes with one year free service, I decided to call Sirius and cancel the second unit. I was happy to take care of it on their web site but they don’t offer that option online. So I had to hunt for the Customer Service number and finally got through after a lengthy wait. And the first CSR wasn’t able to help and my call needed to be transferred to the cancellation department. And I waited some more on the phone, got disconnected and had to call back to start the process all over again. I finally had to get back to work so I never was able to cancel.
I’m almost ready to cancel the whole damn account. After paying so much for their service you would think that I’d have an easier time getting some help. I guess I thought wrong. I need to burn MP3 CD’s and listen to them in the car and forget about Sirius.
Want an amusing show to watch? Then tune in to Cash Cab on the Discovery Channel. We’ve started watching it nightly and have fun seeing unsuspecting people surprised when they enter the cab and find they have a chance to win some money. The host/driver Ben Bailey is hilarious with a quick wit. The trivia questions are a bit challenging and its fun watching the various people playing the game while getting a free cab ride to their destination. Even more fun is when the contestants miss three questions and get kicked out of the cab on the spot. Check it out sometime.
Serious computer geeks around the world will be watching their computers’ time clocks late Friday, when the internal clock used by Unix reads 1234567890.
That’s because, at precisely 3:31:30 p.m. Pacific time on February 13, 2009, the 10-digit “epoch time” clock used by most Unix computers will display all ten decimal digits in sequence. (That’s 6:31:30 Eastern, or 23:31:30 UTC.)
I find your lack of pants disturbing.
Chewie and me got into a lot of pants more heavily guarded than this.
The Force is strong in my pants.
In his pants you will find a new definition of pain and suffering
Governer Tarkin. I should have expected to find you holding Vader’s pants.
A disturbance in the pants. I have not felt this since near my old master…
I have to sit through two and often three cycles before I can get through the light. One day I timed the signal and it is red for almost 3 minutes. Fed up after waiting again at this intersection, I decided to go to our Road Commission’s web site and enter a complaint on the form they have available. The next morning I received a call from the Road Commissioner himself asking for more details about the issue with the signal. I was impressed he took the time to respond to my complaint and he told me he would take care of the problem personally.
So this morning as I went to work, the timing on the light was fixed and I breezed right through. The Commissioner told me if I ever have any other problems in the county, to please give him a call at his direct number. That’s very cool.
Here’s a fascinating photo essay from The Boston Globe of people at work, check it out here.
One millisecond equals 1/1000th of a second.
0 milliseconds – An external object touches the driver’s door.
2 ms – An acceleration sensor in the C-pillar behind the rear door also detects a crash event.
7 ms – Crash computer confirms a serious crash and calculates its actions.
8 ms – Computer sends a “fire” signal to side airbag. Meanwhile, B-pillar begins to crumple inwards and energy begins to transfer into cross-car load path beneath the occupant.
8.5 ms – Side airbag system fires.
15 ms – Roof begins to absorb part of the impact. Airbag bursts through seat foam and begins to fill.
20 ms – Door and B-pillar begin to push on front seat. Airbag begins to push occupant’s chest away from the impact.
27 ms – Impact velocity has halved from 50 km/h to 23.5 km/h. A “pusher block” in the seat moves occupant’s pelvis away from impact zone. Airbag starts controlled deflation.
30 ms – The Falcon has absorbed all crash energy. Airbag remains in place. For a brief moment, occupant experiences maximum force equal to 12 times the force of gravity.
70 ms – Airbag continues to deflate. Occupant moves back towards middle of car.
Engineers classify crash as “complete”.
150-300 ms – Occupant becomes aware of collision.
From my brief look, here’s what I liked so far:
Top Sites – Your favorite websites can be seen in one big grid type view, and you can switch between them with just one click. This is its best feature.
Cover Flow – Bookmarks and web history can been seen in the same view as you would look at your iTunes album artwork.
Nitro Engine – New technology allowing a super fast web experience. The program loads and opens pages much faster the Firefox.
Besides the Twitter homepage (which is blocked at work) I have several ways to post “tweets” during the day. I have TwitterBerry on my work Blackberry, Twitterific on my iPhone and Tweetdeck on my home computer. Last night I purchased Tweetie for the iPhone and so far it has the best interface of all the ones I’ve been using. Tweetie is fast and is loaded with options including a location-aware feature to see who’s sending tweets near you. So everyone, sign up for a Twitter account, jump on the bandwagon and send me a tweet.
Are you THAT person who…
Of course you’re not.
1. Fear of Friday the 13th — one of the most popular myths in science — is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.
2. Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13.
3. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would never host 13 guests at a meal. Napoleon and President Herbert Hoover were also triskaidekaphobic, with an abnormal fear of the number 13.
4. Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. “It was bad luck,” Twain later told the friend. “They only had food for 12.” Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.
5. The number 13 suffers from its position after 12, according to numerologists who consider the latter to be a complete number — 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles of Jesus, 12 days of Christmas and 12 eggs in a dozen.
6. The ill-fated Apollo 13 launched at 13:13 CST on Apr. 11, 1970. The sum of the date’s digits (4-11-70) is 13 (as in 4+1+1+7+0 = 13). And the explosion that crippled the spacecraft occurred on April 13 (not a Friday). The crew did make it back to Earth safely, however.
7. The seals on the back of a dollar bill include 13 steps on the pyramid, 13 stars above the eagle’s head, 13 war arrows in the eagle’s claw and 13 leaves on the olive branch. So far there’s been no evidence tying these long-ago design decisions to the present economic situation.
Apple today announced over 100 new features to be included in the iPhone 3.0 Software update. Here’s a brief list of the major features introduced in Tuesday’s town hall event:
Don’t forget the day after St. Patrick’s Day is cause to celebrate too. It’s the lesser known holiday that honors Hiram Barramour. You’ll may recall he was the servant of the King during the time of St. Patrick. The next day after drinking gallons of green beer for St. Patrick’s Day, it was Barramour who was right there holding the hair back of the mistresses that were barfing in The Privy. A hair clip was later named after this loyal servant, it was called the “barrette.”
Dear Ladles and Jellyspoons. I stand before you to sit behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. Next Thursday which is Good Friday there will be a mother’s meeting for fathers only. If you can come, please stay at home. Admission if free, pay at the door find a seat and sit on the floor. Thank you.
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