Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
Proof that it pays to comparison shop: I was in the Staples store here and saw a 4GB flash drive for $109. Then I walked next door to the Best Buy store, and saw the same 4GB flash drive, from the same manufacturer… for $49. And the most disgusting part of it is, even Best …
“Men want hot women, study confirms“. Well, duh! 🙂 Despite the title of the article, the aforementioned study did have some interesting insights. It’s worth a read for anyone interested in decoding human behavior.
Very amusing, and quite possibly accurate. 🙂
My post last week on how a long-time C++ aficionado (me) finally accepted that Lisp is a better programming language got a lot of hits. And I do mean a lot of hits: over a three-day period, nearly eleven times as many people visited Geek Drivel (to see that entry) as had visited in the …
Teenagers apparently think that e-mail is only for us old fogies.
Un-freakin’-believable.
JoelOnSoftware (an ex-Microsoft employee) posted an absolutely scathing commentary on Vista and Office 2007’s packaging yesterday, along with a devastating comment on Vista itself: I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply …
“Firefox can block ads, so we’re blocking anyone using Firefox from seeing our pages at all.” Priceless. Nevermind the fact that the User Agent Switcher extension means that Firefox can appear to be any other browser, easily bypassing this kind of block. I can understand why people would want to do this, but they’ll need …
The explanation has been posted: it was all Microsoft’s fault. 😉 This will not affect my use of Skype. It’s a great money-saving tool, but I always have a backup. [Correction, it wasn’t Microsoft’s fault, they just caused it. 😉 ]
Yet more memory tricks, courtesy of your local mad scientist. Now if only they could help me remember things, as well as forgetting them… 😉