Archive for February, 2005

The Oscars suck

Monday, February 28th, 2005

Everyone can stop asking me what I thought about the Oscars. I watched Chris Rock's opening bit, and it was ok, not great, but ok. Then I watched Iron Chef, thats right Iron Chef...I checked the winners later. No real surprises. Jamie Foxx...blah blah...Clint Eastwood...blah blah... I ...

New York Attorney Has Ample Cash and Balls

Friday, February 25th, 2005

The Fleet Center, for those that don't know, is a sports arena in the middle of Boston. Its the home of the Celtics and the currently resting, Bruins. The Fleet Center is looking for a name change and they posted the rights up on E-Bay. The winning bid? ...

iPod - Firewire = New iPod

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Daring Fireball has another great article posted up, whats new right? Well just for the sake of making a post, when I can't think of anything else, I'll tell you a quick bit about the post. Its all about why Apple ditched the firewire cable from the freebies inside new ...

Germans Love “What a Feeling” Song

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

A few years ago, while I was still in school in Kirksville, MIssouri, I went on a wardriving binge one day. The trip ended with my hacking into my friends' wireless network and poking around their computers and having some fun with them. On one of their computers ...

I‘m Begining to Hate My Webhost…

Monday, February 21st, 2005

Oh at least once a day or so if I'm trying to go to update this page or if I'm just checking in on it, I'll get a nice little "Your connection was refused while trying to contact hellyahbitch.com" message. Not only that but I've been told by a ...

Ajax: Who says you can’t just make up a name for something?

Monday, February 21st, 2005

You've seen Google Suggest and the new Google Maps right? (If not, check them out.) Well then you have been playing with, and probably hearing about the new cool web technology: XMLHttpRequest, or as Adaptive Path has recently decided to call it: Ajax If you would like a good article ...

Goodbye Hunter S. Thompson

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

Hunter S. Thompson with the stars of Fear and Loathing..., Del Torro and Depp. The man that wrote the book that one of my favorite movies was based off of "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas" is dead today at 67 years old. Hunter S. Thompson shot and allegedly killed ...

Asterisk@Home: Open-Source Bliss

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

As some of you may know, I have been involved in a project to roll out an Asterisk-based VoIP phone system. Well I've been jumping on and off working on that project for the last month or so because we didn't have phones, or we needed a new server, ...

Paris Gets Hacked

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

Oh with all of the porn-videos released and videos of her shoplifting, and now her cell phone gets hacked, one starts to maybe feel a little bad for Paris Hilton. And then one remembers that she is a ridiculously rich bitch, and then you laugh and enjoy sites like ...

Pumped Up Shoes: The Return

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

The Reebok iPump According to a commercial I just witnessed, pump-shoes are back, and they've been renamed in a fashion that all "new" and cool things are named these days. No, not Extreme pump shoes...but good guess. They are called iPumps. Wow I'm impressed, aren't you?