codyg1985’s Think Tank

AOL and Yahoo are proposing an email tax to combat spam. This website presents an open letter to stand against this tax, citing AOL’s two-tier email system as a divide that will grow, forcing businesses to switch to the paid email system.
I encourage all readers of this blog to sign the open letter and […]

Today was one of the worst days that I have had in a while.
My internet access has been down for the past day, and it could have been fixed by removing a Windows registry entry, but I did not know that until a few minutes ago.
I took my computer over to the Computer and Network […]

Note: I am not sure if this article is authentic, but I found the contents interesting enough to post here.
The US Department of Homeland Security will experiment with a creative way to affect hurricanes by dropping a GBU-43/B, better known as the mother of all bombs or massive ordinance air burst (MOAB) into a hurricane’s […]

A man has been arrested after he attempted to solicit sex from a police officer posing as a teenage girl on MySpace. The man chatted with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl and arranged a meeting to have sex, but when the meeting took place the police were there to make the arrest.

Two Ramona High School students were supended from school for bringing snow to school grounds to start a snowball fight.:
Principal Mike Neece said one of his most important responsibilities is maintaining a safe, orderly learning environment.
“Anything that disturbs that or disrupts that is inappropriate on a school campus,” Neece said. “Anything that could […]

A student found a roll of quarters inside a laundry room coin box laced with a white powder in a University of Texas dormatory. Initial tests concluded that the powder was ricin, but subsequent tests did not detect the poision. No one has been exposed to the poison.
Thank goodness everyone is okay.

Blogging can be difficult. Jason Kottke was a web designer that quit his day job for blogging. His blog looks nice and simple, and he updated it on a regular basis. Unfortunately, this was not enough to keep Kottke from quitting full-time blogging.
Kottke’s blog won the lifetime achievement award at the 2003 […]

On Microsoft’s piracy section of their website, there is a banner at the top of the page. However, if you look closely, that banner shows a person holding an Apple iBook. Perhaps Microsoft is suggesting that people use Apple computers to combat piracy?

A friend of mine mentioned this to me the other day, and I was skeptical about this building at first, but it turns out that it does exist and is under construction. Burj Dubai will be the world’s tallest building when completed in 2008. Although its final height is a secret, it is […]

News Corp, the owner of the FOX network, answers the newly-formed CW that resulted from the merger of The WB and UPN. The network will run on affliiates that were former UPN or WB affiliates that were left out when the other afiliate changed to The CW.
My Network TV, as it will be called, […]