2008 November

Rick Rolled! Rick Astley Crashes Macy’s Parade

THIS IS TOO AWESOME! Good one on his part!
You know an Internet craze has jumped the shark when it makes its way into that most traditional of Thanksgiving ceremonies: the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Here we are watching the “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” float drift by when suddenly the Rick Roller himself pops up for [...]

BlackBerry Love: Obama Looking for Ways to Hold onto His Blackberry

It looks like President-Elect Obama isn’t going to give up his beloved BlackBerry this January without some sort of fight. In an interview with Barbara Walters, he revealed that he was working to find a solution to that whole surrender-your-cellphones-and-email-accounts at the door policy.
BlackBerry Love: Obama Looking for Ways to Hold onto His Blackberry.

Twitter Stops SMS Service To Canada

If you are Canadian like I am then this sucks! I am sure that this is not the fault of Twitter but the fault of the wireless providers in Canada. To be completely honest they all are pretty bad up here. In a statement release on their site they explain the reason is due to [...]

Another great background site – ☆ Desktoptopia ☆ 

Thanks to Thomas Aleksander from geeks.pirillo.com for this link. A great site with a program that changes your desktop backgrounds as often as you like.
☆ Desktoptopia ☆ .

Where Do You Get Your Desktop Wallpaper?

I like to change it up every once in a while and put a new wallpaper on my computer. Usually I take something that is pertinant to the seasons or something going on in my life. Right now in my neck of the woods we have had our first real snow fall and the big [...]

ThinkGeek :: Star Trek TNG Plate Covers

Love these types of things. For all you Trekkers out there!
ThinkGeek :: Star Trek TNG Plate Covers.

Festive Firefox: 10 Themes for the Holidays

Christmas is coming!!! A fun entry for all you Firefox users. Slap one of these on to feel the spirit of the holidays. And if you are American then do it next week :)
Festive Firefox: 10 Themes for the Holidays

Do you Kubuntu? A look at my 8.10 installation.

The overall look is nice as well. I mentioned that the programs (or start for all the MS people) menu has been changed. The navigation takes a little getting used to but it’s still quite intuitive. It is actually much better than the Vista menu in my opinion.

I am disappointed with myself!

It’s been a long time since I have written a post on here and it’s depressing. I have done some thinking in the last couple of days and here is what I came up with.
I have wanted to do some online video streaming for quite some time and I have spent a lot of time [...]

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