Archive for August, 2005

Dropping a Link

The new streaming Pandora is slick. It streams music based upon what you like. Rating songs is a breaze. After the first 10 hours it costs $$.

American Idol Concert

Kristine and I went to the American Idol on Tour concert last night. Overall it was pretty good. Unfortunetly Bo Bice was ill and did not perform. Right when the American Idol - Carrie Underwood - started singing her songs people started leaving. By the time she was done maybe half [...]

Status Update

I haven’t blogged in a bit. Last week I was in Texas for a couple days looking around. The state seems to be very nice. Kristine and her sister, and my brothers and I went to Universal Studios over the last weekend. The Mummy ride was extremely lacking. I’m glad we basically [...]

Coca-Cola Lovers

I’m more of a Pepsi man myself, but what do the 5 different Cokes on the market actually have in them? Demystifying Diet Coke(s)

New GPG Key

After four years using my original GnuPG key, I have created a new one. ID: 0×0AE9C4BF In case you did not know GnuPG allows one to securely encrypt or sign emails and files, so no one can read them without your passphrase.

Ants Suck

Ants live for 45 - 60 days; 45 - 60 days too long. More Facts about ants. I can not see anyone liking ants and we had a whole battalion in the house, thus researched a bit online for ways of exterminating the buggers. Terro’s liquid ant baits work great. Take care placing [...]

X.org Packages

Many of you know that I use Linux for my operating system instead of Windows. I am glad I use Gentoo as my distribution of choice. The X11R7 release of X.org will be split into multiple packages as a modular release. In total (and some optional) the number of packages will be [...]