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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425405,00.html [foxnews.com]

$7.2 billion put to good use. . .

At least it still hasn’t swallowed the Earth.

http://www.crazyskills.com/0808/machine.php

sliced from /.:

” Wolf nipple chips writes “Craig Wright discovered that the Jura F90 Coffee maker, with its honest-to-God Jura Internet Connection Kit, can be taken over by a remote attacker, who can cause the coffee to be weaker or stronger; change the amount of water per cup; or cause the machine to require service (call this one a DDoC). ‘Best yet, the software allows a remote attacker to gain access to the Windows XP system it is running on at the level of the user.’ An Internet-enabled, remote-controlled coffee-machine and XP backdoor — what more could a hacker ask for?”

http://www.beeroftheday.com has some great suggestions - mostly beers I have not heard of before. Included on the site is the following information, several photos and links to where you can buy today’s beer.

Today’s beer:

Liquid Sunshine Blonde Ale

Blonde Ale

Sacramento, CA

Liquid Sunshine is amazingly hoppy, which is very surprising for a blonde ale. It looks like a light lager but tastes like a mild IPA. Initially it is sweet with a lot of flavor, then turns to a hoppy aftertaste that is not the least bit bitter. This is an interesting beer that is definitely worth a try.

OU is back up! Check it out!

crazyskills.com/ou

I have just begin playing this one again and I am just amazed with it - again. It’s an Infocom game. For those of you who don’t remember Infocom games, they are purely text-adventure games. No graphics, no sound. It’s “Interactive Fiction.” One of the most popular Infocom games is “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” written by Douglas Adams himself.

Leather Goddesses of Phobos is a brilliant and hilarious story. You start off in Joe’s Bar and from there travel the universe including Mars, Venus, Cleveland (to name a few.) This game was created when games had to have content - it’s all they were. No fluff. Just a brilliant storyline and incredible imagination.

I highly recommend the interactive fiction of Infocom to anyone who has a computer and an imagination. A simple google search will turn up information about the games, games you can play online for free, and places where you can buy the ones you can’t.

Check it out! As always, it’s a free download and this new version comes with the following new features:

* A Completely Redesigned Interface, including Album Art
* Multiple device support, including iPods
* Access and Share Your Music and Videos with Winamp Remote
* Play and Playlist the Best Music on the Web with Media Monitor
* Get Artist & Concert News, Videos & more with Smart Search
* Enjoy Dynamic Song Recommendations
* Experience MP3 Surround Sound Support
* Access to Thousands of Online Radio Stations, Videos and More!
* 50 FREE MP3 Music Downloads compliments of eMusic’s 2-week Trial
* Auto-Tagger provides automatic updates to file information
* Control Winamp From Your Browser with the Winamp Toolbar

taunts me.

Microsoft’s official word is that my mainboard is not supported.  Though the technical support genius told me it was not supported because it was manufactured before Vista was released.  To go by this man’s logic, there would be no mainboards on the market which were supported by Vista on launch.  No computers that could use Vista at release.  Oh well.

What I wouldn’t do for an Asus A7N8X Deluxe rev. 2! Someone out there has got to have one for sale. I could deal with my SATA drive not being recognized yet. I got a taste of Vista and I want more. Maybe I could take out a loan and build my next machine. It will last me a good long time. It’s the way we roll. Build machines with the best of what is available, and use them for years. Whenever I am able to build my next machine, I will convert this current one to the server. Imagine what we will be able to host with this one’s processor speed and our current internet connection! Someday.  Stay tuned.

“Code is poetry”

I am really interested in this. I think I am going to host my own Wordpress server to see the inner workings of it and offer it to a broader audience. I feel good about Wordpress. Like I feel good about creative commons. It’s bringing some of the cool parts of open source to the desktop. If you are not familiar with Creative Commons, check it out. It’s about sharing, like open source is, but about sharing all or just part of the work you do. It’s a brilliant idea.

Back to Wordpress. It’s clever. Even if I type in non-html code in the html tab, it still does it.. It is a little bit of artificial intelligence. I just hit twice, rather than <\br&rt;<\br&rt;. It’s still an editor, but supports html too. It’s that second-guessing the user that is the key to good, practical AI.

I was going to explain the widget, but found these following 2 sites that really sum it up well. The first is a basic explanation from Tabco’s site at comcast.net, and the second goes into a little more physics; however, both of them fail to mention the ball serving as the spoon for the perfect pour.

May I present… The Widget.

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