Archive for June, 2005

Random Blog of the Week #8

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

With all the craziness of the 500th post and endless celebration that followed that involved not one, but two hookers some coke and a strange visit from Pat O'Brien, I completely forgot about the "Random Blog Of The Week". For that, I apologize. This week's belated Random Blog of the ...

A Note-Taking Extension for Thunderbird Found (kinda)

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

A while back I bitched about wanting a Thunderbird extension that would let me take notes on individual emails so that I could track what work I did related to the email requests I get in my inbox. Well, some guy named Frank DiLecce must be an avid reader of hyb.com ...

The 501st Post

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

I just realized that Hell Yeah Bitch! .com has just reached 500 posts (This being the 501st.) What does this mean? Nothing I guess. It does mean that somehow this website has managed to capture my attention for over 2 years and now 500 posts. It ...

Crazy gallery of album covers mildly entertains

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

As I was flipping through Boing Boing just now I saw this article which covers many creepy and unintentionally funny christian songs about how horrible abortion is and so forth. After the pain of me knowing about the Lil' Markie song for a few days now and not writing ...

MSN bans firefox right clicking

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

Surprise, surprise! Microsoft is acting like a big pussy again today. This time they are crying about Firefox use on their crappy web portal MSN.com (no link, on purpose). If after a long night of sniffing glue in your basement, you decide to visit MSN.com with firefox ...

A movie production suite on the cheap

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

The crew over at the site MEMAP.ORG were inspired by a recent MacMerc article about home, cheap, movie studios and decided to improve it. What they came up with was a nice list of cheap (read: free) software that can do amazing things. Cinepaint, Blender, and Jahshska are all amazing ...

iTunes meets Podcasting

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

Apple has finally unveiled their latest update to iTunes. iTunes 4.9' only real new feature is its integrated support for podcasts (Don't know what podcasting is? Click on the last link and Apple will be glad to tell you.) I've already downloaded the new iTunes on my work PC and ...

Hell Yeah Bitch! .com embraces “tags”

Monday, June 27th, 2005

You might have noticed yet another thing I have added to the bottom of every post. There is now a listing of different "tags" that pretain to that article. Tags are simply keywords that the author decided pretained to that post. Clicking on any of them will ...

Hollywood wins Internet piracy battle

Monday, June 27th, 2005

This sucks. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that software companies can be held liable for copyright infringement when individuals use their technology to download songs and movies illegally. "One who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright ... is liable for the resulting acts of ...

Blogging Gnomedex

Friday, June 24th, 2005

Now that I have been linked to Chris Pirillo for the forseeable future because I coined the term "The Pirillo Effect" I thought it would be great if I could go to Gnomedex. I can't though, it turns out you need money and time. I sadly, at the ...