Archive for February, 2006



Welcome to codyg1985.com!

Welcome to my new blog website!
I was tired of the problems that my former blog was giving me, so I figured it would be neat if I created my own domain and moved my blog over here.
I have posted some of my old blog posts on here, but I have not yet got all of […]

What do you do if you run out of toilet paper? This guy beat his roommate to death with a hammer.
The roommates were fighting, and one pulled out a shotgun. The other roommate then pulled out a sledge hammer and beat the other roommate to death.

Open source internet TV platform

For those of you with the internet connections to handle it, these folks have developed a media player that aggregates streaming video into one source:

Download and watch all the best internet TV shows and videos in one powerful application. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guide.

Stop squinting at tedious web videos– sit back and watch big, high resolution videos one after another. It’s so easy to use that you’ll be watching interesting videos in moments.

Features: subscribe to video RSS feeds (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds), watch fullscreen, share with friends.

New York state will tax out-of-state drivers that get ticketed in the state. The tax charges cited motorists $100 per year after the ticket has been issued and paid.
Michigan, New Jersey, and Texas also dock drivers with this tax, and Virginia will soon follow suit.

It’s another branding from Microsoft. A billboard in Times Square had a application crash message on it…the very dialogue box that torments users on a day-to-day basis.

Cheney’s got a gun

It has been so easy to make fun of the Dick Cheney hunting accident. Here’s a flash video that parodies both Aerosmith’s “Janie’s Got a Gun” with Dick Cheney.

I hate having diabetes

I am so sick of having diabetes. It is rare that my body feels good and I feel good. Most of the time I feel tense and ill as a hornet. That’s the way I feel right now. The slightest thing pisses me off, and it takes a lot for me to feel better. Nobody […]

Ben Goodger, a lead engineer for the Mozilla Firefox web browser, acknowledged the memory issues that hasve plagued the browser, but also said that the memory leak is the consequence of a caching feature that stores previously-viewed pages in memory. From Goodger’s blog:
To improve performance when navigating (studies show that 39% of all page […]

For some strange reason, when I tried to publish one of my blog entries this morning in Firefox, I got an error which said permission was denied to one of the archive files. I found that odd, but then I took at look at the Blogger help group and noticed a a post that […]

A proposal to achieve near-luminal propulsion speeds was unveiled by Dr. Franklin Felber at Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF) in Albuquerque, NM. The system works by propelling a secondary spacecraft to a little more than half the speed of light. Felber’s paper argues that in front of this secondary spacecraft a […]