OK, the headline is not actually from the Onion, but James Taranto writing in the Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal's "Best of the Web" column regularly runs a feature he called "Life Imitates the Onion."

Reading through this AP "analysis," the headline could easily be changed to my suggestion ( Read more... )

That is all.

...welcome our new socialist overlords.

One silver lining, as I wrote 4 years ago thinking about a Kerry victory, was that maybe the Daily Show will be watchable by righties.

At this point, if we can keep Al Franken out of the Senate, I'll feel quite happy.

I am also beyond relieved that this election is OVER. I was seriously losing my mind ( Read more... )

So bought the sprog a Ramones onesie. For $20. Yay!

Have you heard about Windows Home Server? It's a stripped down Windows 2003 Server for the home. Why would you want a server in your house? How about automatic nightly backups? How about bare-metal restore capabilities? Dead simple remote access to any client from the Interwebs? How about automatic RAID configuration and hardware problem alerting ( Read more... )

Computer power management software company Verdiem is offering a copy of "Edison" -- a consumer version of its industrial data center strength power management software -- for free download.

It runs on Windows XP SP2 (or later), and Windows Vista. (I don't know if x64 is supported or not.) According to the story in the Mercury News, it can cut ( Read more... )

I finally got an email from Apple last night offering me the activation code to get a digital certificate to develop iPhone applications.

I have a ton of different ideas for apps I'd like to write but the two I wanted to share today are:

• Dice roller
  "I have dice."
  In the undying words of everyone's favorite D&D'er - and I'm sure much to the ( Read more... )

Nom nom nom

I smoked 10 pounds of pork spare ribs for about 6 hours tonight. Yummah. There's plenty of leftovers too. Too bad none of you schmucks live anywhere near me.

After Razor I had high hopes for the conclusion of this television series, which in the first season was arguably one of the best episodic dramas in television history. I started having some serious twinges of doubt where season 4 was headed from the first "regular" episode of season 4.

Some spoilers coming up after the cut.
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I've already seen this playoff series before. Last year.

Try not to suck so much in Dallas.

Love,

Mark