Microsoft has extended the sales deadline for Windows XP amid users who are reluctant to upgrade to Vista. From: InformationWeek – Responding to some customers’ lukewarm embrace of Windows Vista, Microsoft said it will extend by several months availability of the operating system’s predecessor, Windows XP. The company said it will make the full version [...]
Due to a Database error I was unable to repair, I have moved the entire contents of the main blog to here.
I will continue to update the main blog and use this as a repository for all posts made before 04/30/2008
.September 30, 2007
Revolution Calling
With the abuses by Myanmar government and military still going… there is problem, for the government. That problem is the Internet. And the Myanmar government has stepped in to make sure that whats happening cant get out as easily. From: IDG News Service – The loss of Internet access in Myanmar has slowed the tide [...]
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September 29, 2007
iPod Touch Friendly
I have made the blog friendly to iPod Touch users. Enjoy. The user-agent string for the Touch is: Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3A110a Safari/419.3 I am using iWPhone 0.1.1 as my iPhone/iPod Touch theme. The current version is 0.1.2 with Touch support. If you dont [...]
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From the Just Plain Stupid desk…
From AP – Court won’t declare chimp a person (the title says it all) VIENNA, Austria – He’s now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he’s having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take [...]
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Cuffed Kids Steal Car
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – Three Mexican minors detained in California on suspicion of smuggling drugs stole a U.S. Border Patrol car while still wearing handcuffs and drove it back across the border to Mexico. And how do you tell your supervisor that your car was stolen? Honest Boss, they WERE cuffed….
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Disabled podPress
I had to disable podPress 8.3 due to errors accessing uploaded pictures. Will try podPress when its updated to work with WordPress 2.3
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Three More LODD
To date there have been 132 officers who have died in the line of duty. Today I add three more to the blog. One died of gunfire, another from a vehicular assault and the last in an aircraft accident. From ODMP.org – Detective Mario Moreno was shot and killed while attempting to serve an arrest [...]
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September 28, 2007
More Bots
Yesterday I was hit by: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Gigamega.bot/1.0; +http://www.gigamega.net/bot.html) IP: 75.125.52.98 (V) (IP) (IP2) So I went to the URL given and got a 404 error. The bot has now been blocked.