Interesting how this topic is starting to reveal its ugly underbelly:

People Fear Starvation, While Biofuel Companies Continue to See Dollar Signs...People in other nations are rioting, fighting for their food like never before, and even in the U.S. some are beginning to hoard and ration food items like rice, for fear it will become a hard-to-find ( Read more... )

Okay, so I am now posting this entry from Firefox, because I have decided that IE sucks the big one. I mean, I've had Firefox installed on my systems as well, but I just didn't use it much before. I don't remember Internet Explorer being such a resource hog before, and it's not like it started acting this way when IE 7 came out, but it crashes and ( Read more... )

While I love this gorgeous weather and all, it's getting the best of me. It's not even noon yet, and it's already 85 degrees. Ugh. It never really cooled off overnight, though, so meh. It may reach 100+ in some of the foothill areas here, with enough of a dewpoint that it's going to be sticky, to be sure. Not like NYC has been, but enough that we ( Read more... )

El Jay, your slowness and bugs are killing me. I shall not update you again until you stabilize a bit. I know it isn't directly your fault, so I shall forgive you all in good time. Mistakes happen, we're all human, and people need to just chill ( Read more... )

All kinds of random thoughts on my mind today ( Read more... )

Okay, so I've been mulling over this idea for awhile, and decided I want to hear about the strangest and most random (and possibly bizarre) fears people have. I mean, we all have them, right? Something that just plain scares the bejeebus out of us, while making others laugh hysterically as we scream/panic? You know you do, even if you don't want to ( Read more... )

This link is mainly for my own reference, but I think it's good info to share.

Relay Abuse - Make it Stop!!!Basically, the reason I decided to investigate this is that over the past couple of days alone, we've gotten like 5+ "Internet Relay Calls" at work. Now I know I posted about this quite some time ago, but knowing what I know now, I also know ( Read more... )

Item #1: Okay, who decided to play a cruel trick and drop snow in my neighbourhood this morning? Mind you, it only seemed to be in MY neighbourhood; my parents, who are just a couple miles away, had nothing, yet we somehow ended up with a generous dusting of the stuff. Gah! I hereby declare that Winter be over now, kthxbye ( Read more... )