Archive for February, 2006
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 […]
Toilet paper dispute between roommates ends in murder
0 Comments Published February 21st, 2006 in WierdWhat 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.
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New York state implements tax to extort money from tourists on an annual basis
0 Comments Published February 21st, 2006 in WierdNew 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.
Computer error stops Times Square electronic billboard in its tracks
0 Comments Published February 21st, 2006It’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.
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 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 […]
Mozilla programmer responds to Firefox memory leaks
0 Comments Published February 17th, 2006 in TechnologyBen 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 […]
Blogger: Firefox and Blogger don’t agree with each other
0 Comments Published February 16th, 2006 in WebsiteFor 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 […]
Antigravity propulsion system proposed at space conference
0 Comments Published February 16th, 2006 in TechnologyA 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 […]
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