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Test of ECTO and YouTube video

By • Nov 18th, 2006 • Category: Computers, Misc, On The Web, Pop Culture, Software, the Site, the Weirdo

Another test for Ecto. This time for YouTube Video…. _as14BYmeCI Looks like it’s going to work…..



Old Lady Pwnz Mercedes Guy

By • Dec 26th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Weirdo

This is one of the fuunniest things I have seen in a long time. Sometimes when we are too impatient, our impatience can strike back at us from some of the most unexpected places. The jerk got what he deserved. Just a warning though, this is video with sound. There is some rude language in [...]



Blogger Prayer for the Faithful

By • Dec 26th, 2005 • Category: Catholic stuff, On The Web, the Church

A. Carlton Sallet has posted a prayer for bloggers. Lord, we ask your blessings be poured out upon we who blog, that we may be given an abundance of the cardinal virtues to guide our hands: fortitude, to suffer fools gladly; temperance, to tame our flames; prudence, to know when enough is enough and justice, [...]



Right Minded — Conservative Commentary from Mark A. Rose

By • Dec 16th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, Politics

This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen in my life…. “Germany was not behind 12/7″….. That’s awesome….. [Right Minded -- Conservative Commentary from Mark A. Rose] Technorati Tags: politics



a del.icio.us power failure

By • Dec 14th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Geek

Our datacenter has had full power outage, and we are now recovering from the aftermath. About half of the machines are still down and we are working on bringing them back as soon as possible. To keep things moving, I’ve turned off RSS and some other features so that posting will still work and so [...]



The South got there first

By • Dec 3rd, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Weirdo

So says Expagan. And he ain’t just whistling Dixie either. There for a minute I thought I was stuck in a Harry Turtledove Book…. [The South got there first]



Keep Christ in Christmas? How about keep Christmas in Christmas?

By • Dec 2nd, 2005 • Category: Catholic stuff, On The Web, the Ranter

I’m probably going to do this. Won’t you do it too? WAR ON CHRISTMAS: MUSCLEHEADS FIGHT BACK: With kindness of all things… We are excited to be launching the opportunity today…between now and Christmas we are asking you to send the ACLU direct “MerryChristmas” cards. And we aren’t talking about these generic “happy holiday” (meaning [...]



Why I’m glad I’m not a Bellsouth customer

By • Dec 2nd, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Ranter

It’s because they hate their customers. According to the Washington Post, a BellSouth executive yesterday told reporters and analysts that the telco should be able to charge certain websites more if they wish to be accessed by customers more quickly. BellSouth CTO William L. Smith also told reporters BellSouth should be able to charge VoIP [...]



Hillary Jokes

By • Dec 1st, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Weirdo

Jean Marie over at Catholic Fire has posted some really funny Hillary jokes. Go read, laugh and be merry…. [Catholic Fire: Hillary Jokes]



TeeVee.org: Lost Explained!

By • Nov 28th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, Pop Culture, the Geek

Did anyone out there ever play the old text adventure games like “Zork” or “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”? Do you also watch the show “Lost“? If so, then you have to go read this…. Today, while driving – driving and showering always bring out the most thoughtful – in me I finally unravelled [...]



Transferring ssh keys from hosts to host

By • Nov 28th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Geek, Unix

cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh -l \( test -d \~/.ssh \|\| mkdir \~/.ssh \) \&\& cat \>\>\~/.ssh/authorized_keys I can’t remember how I found this guys blog, but I am so glad I did. THis one line of code will save me so much time it’s not even funny. No, I am not laughing. I am smiling [...]



WordPress.com

By • Nov 21st, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Site

OK…..In case you weren’t paying attention, Wild Tangents is running a software package called “WordPress“. The developers who worked on it have done a really god and I am happy with it. Suzette also likes using it over on Foxy Suzy. I’m lucky that I’ve got a hosting solution provided by Bluehost that allows me [...]



Map Sex Offenders – Free US Sex Offender Registry Mapping System

By • Nov 16th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Geek

We all know now that sex offenders have to register and state their residence. We also know that this information is public domain. There are plenty of website out there that share all this information with the public. We also know that Google has this great service called simply “maps” that has maps and satellite [...]



Project Valour-IT, the Army Team

By • Nov 6th, 2005 • Category: For the Troops, On The Web

Well, here I go breaking my newly instituted rule of not blogging on Sunday. But this is for a very good cause. The following is a list of the Army team I “borrowed” from Blackfive. The group of Army bloggers supporting Valour-IT are: Black FiveAmerican SoldierArgghhh!Random ThoughtsKeep My Soldier SafeMost Certainly NotMy Life As A [...]



Quantum Brainfield – Is This a New Joke?

By • Nov 5th, 2005 • Category: On The Web

My friend Mark R’s family came up with a petty funny family friendly joke. Go check it out here. [Yahoo! 360° - Quantum Brainfield - Is This a New Joke?]



Creamy Peanut butter prefered by “Just a Girl” readers

By • Oct 28th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Weirdo

I just got a big thank you note from the blogstress at Just a Girl. Creamy Wins! Here are the results of the peanut butter poll: 22 crunchy 43 creamy A BIG HUGE thank you to everyone who left their comment about it. Ben had to have at LEAST 25 respondents, however if he had [...]



StickFan

By • Aug 16th, 2005 • Category: On The Web

OK…This was just too weird not to comment on. It’s a site devoted to stick figures. Just…go…look… Visit StickFan



Google Moon – Lunar Landing Sites

By • Jul 25th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Geek

I don’t think you can get directions from your front door to here. But it’s pretty cool anyway. If you like the new maps from Google, check out what they did with the Moon!



Tagalog – English Dictionary

By • Jul 17th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Geek

Click here for the best online Tagalog-English dictionary I’ve been able to find yet. I wouldn’t have found it either if it wasn’t for del.icio.us. As most of you know, Suzette (my wife) is from the Philippines where the national language is called Tagalog. I am making an effort to learn this language myself, mostly [...]



Phatmass…down?

By • Apr 6th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Church

I can’t seem to get to Phatmass today. The Name lookup for it fails. I hope it’ll be back soon, as I just started hitting the place again week after a little break… UPDATE: It’s back up. Some sort of “unplanned network outage”. I love those. They happen here too.