Getting around the Zune 3 play limit

Well a “hack” has been found that allows you to keep your three plays forever. Users can simply accept a shared track, go into Windows and switch the genre to “Podcast,” this allows you to play it all you want. Only down side to this is now your song shows up in the podcast section [...]

I’m looking for a new server…

Well I am thinking about getting a new server to replace a few old desktops that I use as web and database servers. I am currently using two old dell desktops, Pentium 3, with a gig of ram each as a web server and a database server. They mainly just support my development work and [...]

10th Annual Vaporware Awards: Call for Nominees

Wired.com is having its 10th annual vaporware awards and you can nominate something. So head on over and nominate a truly Vaporware product. I know I can think of a dozen or so, it should not be too hard for you. But in case you have difficulty here are the rules:

Submit your nominations to [...]

w00t named word of the year for 2007

Def. expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word “yay”
w00t was named the word of the year in an Online poll done by a very well know dictionary. This year’s winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part [...]

Office Warfare

So I got a USB Missile launcher for my office. Its fun to shoot people when they walk into my office with it. Its a great little weapon for dealing with annoying office mates. Now I understand there is going to be a wireless versions.
Now I will be able to rain down destruction from behind [...]

Vacation Rentals

So I live in the sunshine state, makes going on vacation pretty easy when you don’t have to drive thousands of miles or buy an airline ticket to go to Orlando for a vacation. Since we have passes to Universal Studios we take a day or two and head over to play at the parks [...]

Waterboarding is Torture

My government make me sick when it condones waterboarding. Waterboarding is torture plain and simple. You may wonder what exactly is waterboarding. Here is a definition taken from wikipedia:
“Waterboarding is a torture technique that simulates drowning in a controlled environment. It consists of immobilizing an individual on his or her back, with the head [...]

Great Tool for the small server room

I run the IT department for a small e-commerce company, most of our servers are co-located offsite but we do have a small server room with two NAS file servers a web server and a domain server for local internal use. Well I was running into network issues at night when no one is in [...]

Could you beat a chimp at memory?

According to a recent Japanese study, young chimpanzees around the age of 5 do better than humans at short-term memory tests. These tests pitted college age humans against 5 year old chimps in tests that amounted to Simon. They were shown numbers for a brief amount of time and had to touch out the [...]

Solar system is Bent

Source: CNN Technology
New observations from NASA’s long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft show the solar system is asymmetrical, likely from disturbances in the interstellar magnetic field, scientists reported Monday.
Voyager 2 sailed near the edge of the solar system this past summer following its twin, Voyager 1, in 2004.
The discovery came after the 30-year-old unmanned probe sailed near [...]