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- Storage on the Cheap
- Good through Sunday, October 16th only, Office Depot is having an in-store 18th Anniversary sale. One item of note is a 250GB external hard drive. You’ll notice the online price of $299, which is certainly fair for a triple interface external with an 8mb cache.... full entry
- It’s Electric! (Boogie Woogie Woogie)
- I could have swore I blogged about this when it first came up, but I guess not. The FCC has approved /www.chriscurtis.org/images/smileys/wink.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="wink" style="border:0;" />
- Is Bush Wired?
- The link to this site was “hidden” in one of the little link boxes over on Paul’s site. So, I guess you can blame him. Basically, there’s a website out there that’s discussing the possibility that President Bush is being prompted through an earpiece during... full entry
- PHP Function Index Desktop App
- In developing my latest website, I am having to resort to creating a lot of my own PHP, which is new to me. I never took the time to learn anything more than basic syntax and random tidbits that allowed me to alter someone else’s... full entry
- Maybe I won’t do that October trip this year…
- Two bodies were found floating in the lake the other day at Devil’s Elbow camping area. This is two miles south of Shaw, where we made camp this year on the 2004 trip. Devil’s Elbow was the first choice for the camp area, and it... full entry
- Sea Monkeys, Mo, Sea Monkeys
- Yes, that’s me, at the end of NPR’s Talk of the Nation piece on Mo Rocca’s Hard-Hitting Look at Presidential Pets, a discussion about a new book authored by Mo Rocca, former Daily Show correspondent/comedian. And it’s Metropolis, not Minneapolis, and it’s Sea Monkeys, who... full entry
- Apple Taking Heat for ‘Unfair’ Prices
- iTunes Music Store users in London are being charged about 20% more per song than their European brethren in, say, Paris. Beaurocrats in the UK are up in arms, screaming the Apple is extorting them or something or other. You’ll read about it in the... full entry
- Nothing? Nothing Tra La La??
- I hate that I even used the above quote from Labyrinth in here, but it’s the only other use of the phrase “tra la la” that I know in popular culture. If you haven’t already met Pleasureman G�nther, as he calls himself, then watch this... full entry
- The Disturbing Reality of Po-Dunks
- They exist here, and I’ve heard many locals who express the same feelings, or whom you can watch effortlessly and habitually execute similar patterns of behavior. Private First Class Lynndie England, who is seen in various photos abusing Iraqi detainees, is shown in one with... full entry
- iTunes 4.5 Update
- Apple released iTunes 4.5 today, and after checking some forums to make sure nothing got nerfed, I downloaded and installed it. Read on to discover the new features.
- Accidents that Don’t Have to Happen
- I found out today that my cousin just cut off his thumb a few days ago. He was using a chopsaw on very thick lumber, and there was evidently a knot in the center of it, and the blade hit it, jerked the wood, and... full entry
- iPod Itch Cooled
- This past week, spending so much time with iTunes had left me with a severe itch for an iPod. Specifically, a 15GB 3rd-Generation iPod, along with Griffin Technology’s iTrip. The iTrip stands out from other FM transmitters in that it allows you to use whatever... full entry
- Wierd Al’s Parents Found Dead
- It’s a sad story, that could happen to anyone elderly, really. Weird Al’s parents, in their eighties, apparently died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a wood burning stove, and had accidentally left the flue closed. Sorry, Al. At least they lived to see their grandchild... full entry
- The O’Franken Factor
- Al Franken and cohorts radio station, Air America Radio went live yesterday, and I forgot all about it because it’s not being broadcast in this area. It is on XM radio channel 167 if you have that, otherwise, they broadcast live (via icky Real Player,... full entry
- Broadband, Verizon, and Me
- I have had Verizon DSL service for almost two years now. I’ve been paying $75 per month. You see, in Metropolis, Illinois, Verizon doesn’t have any residential DSL service yet. The workaround is that an ISP, such as NeonDSL can lease the line for their... full entry
- Dialect Survey Mapped!
- Yeah, exciting headline, I know. In the vein of Chris’s recent commonly mispronounced words entry, I bring you (courtesy PA), the Harvard University Dialect Survey. It maps alternate pronunciations of words and where people say them, and questions such as the quintessential: ”What is your... full entry
- DUI ‘Scarlet Letter’
- According to Fox News, a new Ohio law makes mandatory what was previously (for the past 37 years) only an option. The law requires judges to brand convicted drunk drivers with special “scarlet letter” license plates - with red numbers on a yellow background so... full entry
- I Want My MTV
- Or rather, I want the networks that MTV and Viacom own. I had my first indication that trouble was brewing only yesterday, when I was watching Comedy Central. Text began to crawl on the bottom of the screen saying something to the affect of “Attention... full entry
- 99.5% Uptime Guaranteed. I’m supposed to be happy?
- I don’t know why I never bothered to do the math on this one before. I guess mainly because anytime people are talking about “a sure thing” but that they don’t have implicit control over, they say something to the effect of 99% guaranteed, or... full entry
- Apple Upgrade Gets an A+
- I received my hard drive today. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve never purchased a hard drive before, but I have swapped them from machine to machine and built a PC from scratch, so I’m certainly familiar with the installation process. Apple gets a fabulous grade in... full entry
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