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Turning video gaming into performance art, Dance, Voldo, Dance is a performance piece created with the amazing Soul Caliber video game. Creativity is the saviour of this world. The milkandcookies mirror worked best for me.

People! Do NOT use Windows Internet Explorer, ever, ever, ever! I’m not even saying get a mac, but at least go get Mozilla or Firefox! Up to 9 more patches today and 4 new holes in IE. Read more here

I’ve bought one thing from Amazon in 4 years – Not bad for my boycott – And I knowingly paid more for things locally, too. Ever since they went to bed with Toys R Us, I have been boycotting them. Now that there might be a divorce in the works, maybe I can once again… Continue reading Maybe I can buy from Amazon again

For a year now, I’ve used my Series 1 DirecTiVo with my Vonage broadband phone connection to phone DirecTV for updates and to let them know that I had not purchased any movies. When I got home from my trip to L.A., the TiVo was telling it could not dial into DirecTV. So after some… Continue reading TiVo calls via Vonage

Goofy, silly but always enjoyable, Leo Laporte is leaving the screen savers. Thanks for all of the fun TiVo sessions, Leo. You’ll be missed.

Six Apart, who makes MovableType, the software this weblog is using, has released a FAQ about TypeKey. Essentially, TypeKey is a free service for people running MovableType (although it can be licensed by other apps) to provide a user registration system. Users will register with TypeKey and then have access to every TypeKey enabled weblog,… Continue reading Six Apart explains TypeKey

I just reset my cable modem with Comcast and now I am getting 2915kbps! Yes! 3megabit! (Aloha, oregon)

“PC Only” “Windows media Player” Damn, talk about selling out. What crap! Screw em.

I have been making some DVDs with DVD Studio Pro 2 and Final Cut Pro 4. I had noticed that DVDSP was getting slow, and then it crashed as soon as I started using M2V’s from Compressor (MPEG-2 encoded files) It turns out several issues were happening: Always encode your audio with A.Pack – Use… Continue reading DVD Studio Pro tips

Gator renamed themselves to Claria. Does this mean I need to install some Clariatin-D to get rid of the crap they stuff my PC up with?

So I break down and call Logitech about their new MX 900 Bluetooth mouse. Features are nice, bluetooth, all that. But it is designed for right handed only mousers. I am right handed, but I mouse with my left. Me – “I am calling to find out about a left-handed mouse or an ambidextrous MX… Continue reading Asshole company of the week – Logitech

Linksys BEFSr41 – Worked well, had some issues with my Vonage – Gave it away Apple Airport Snow Basestation – Works well, but apple’s features suck. Especially in port forwarding. SMC Barricade – What a pile of crap. Bought it for modem backup. SMC took 10 months to update firmware. Never did add the promised… Continue reading How many routers does one geek need?

America is not screwed because of terrorism, we’re not even screwed because we go to war under auspicious means. We screwed because people who presume to have intelligence make decisions like running Windows on ATMs Good lord, when will people wake up!

According to a slashdot article, Verisign has added wildcards to their .com, .net etc DNS records. This means if you misspell a domain name (like www.appppple.com) and that domain name is not registered with anyone, it will redirect to a verisign server with ads that they will make money on. Great. Not. So, the wonderful… Continue reading Verisign uses DNS to draw surfers, BIND to block

So my cable connection has been dropping for over 24 hours now. No fix from Comcast yet. Rumor says that they are running Windows for some piece of the pipe and the new MSBlast worm has hit them. Great. Screw you, Microsoft and your buggy operating systems. Screw you, Comcast, for using Microsoft on utility… Continue reading MS and Comcast can suck my you know what

From macintouch: Musician Jody Whitesides emailed us with an interesting perspective on Buymusic.com, the new Windows competitor to Apple’s iTunes Music Store: My name is Jody Whitesides, I’m an artist that is about to be brought to the Apple iTunes Music Store. Of course I recently heard about BuyMusic so I decided to point my… Continue reading BuyIllegalMusic.com?

of crap like Ah yes, a midi file can be used to infiltrate your PC. Only from the minds of Microsoft.

Oh! I was talking about SCO! Now they have revoked IBM’s AIX license. Talk about a bunch of people making money for nothing they did themselves. I guess they went to the Microsoft School of Business. If I ever have the chance to turn down working with these guys, I will!

I’ve decided to start a page on PC virus/firewall protection (for my PC friends who know nothing about these issues) Please make comments with web sites you like for virus scanning and applications you like for firewalls, virus removal and web bug scanning. And if the perfect, one stop shopping site already exists, comment with… Continue reading Calling all Windows users