A young couple necking in Van Cortlandt Park are taken at gunpoint to another location. She is raped while he is tied up in another part of the building. Then the two are put into the trunk of the car and dropped at different locations. The girl is dead…..the boyfriend is charged with murder. “Raven” [...]
Archive of entries posted in June 2008
Firefox Download Day
Help set a new Guinness world record for most downloads in a 24-hour period by downloading Firefox 3.0 today! The event starts at 10am PDT.
Summer alarm sales "scam"
Not technically a scam, but still something that I consider to be shady business practice … This evening I had a young college-age kid knock on my door wearing an Apex Security polo with an official-looking badge on a lanyard around his neck. He had seen the ADT sign in my front yard and basically [...]
Put a little style in Apache’s directory index
While researching a problem I was having with Apache I came across indices, a “neat set of hacks” that adds some style to Apache’s default generated indexes. Using Scott Evan’s scripts, I was able to change my directory index from this: to this: Much nicer!
I was “on” Buzz Out Loud!
Tom and Molly read my e-mail about AT&T’s Enterprise Data Plan (and the lack of text messaging) on yesterday’s episode of Buzz Out Loud (#743). The text of my e-mail is in the show notes and their discussion of it starts at the 30:28 mark in the podcast. This is the second time I’ve had [...]
The Heron takes flight
Today I did an in-place upgrade on my server from Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) to 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and it went pretty smoothly (considering I did it remotely over an SSH connection). I had to re-apply a few customizations to various config files but for the most part all of the hard work I’ve done [...]
Badum-Ching!
I heard about all three of these sites on this week’s episode of Windows Weekly (#62): www.instantrimshot.com www.instantcrickets.com www.sadtrombone.com More stunning examples of how people will register any domain name and find something cool to do with it. Liven up your next meeting with one of these!
It’s a bad Monday morning when …
… the office coffee machine is displaying a message that suspiciously resembles a Windows system error: Luckily, just like Windows, rebooting it resolved the issue.
Vista SP1 + ZoneAlarm = no VPN
When I wrote about my Vista woes I mentioned how ZoneAlarm would keep causing Vista’s tcpip.sys driver to BSOD, which forced me to go back to the Windows Firewall. Well, a month had gone by so I figured that I would give ZoneAlarm on Vista SP1 another try. I installed the free version (7.1.254.000) and [...]
Labels in the sidebar
Apparently if you host your Blogger blog on your own server (like I do) instead of Google’s blogspot.com you miss out on some cooler features of the service (like advanced Layouts). Another missing feature is the widget that inserts a list of tags/labels used in posts into the sidebar. Thankfully, I found Antti’s post on [...]
