January 30th, 2006
Ride photos
I took my camera along for my bike rides this weekend. Unfortunately, the trails were washed out after a thunderstorm, but I got a few good photos.
Archive for January, 2006
January 26th, 2006
The EPA just released this least of the top 25 renewable energy users. Unsurprisingly, the list is dominated by government agencies and enviro-nut oriented companies – that is, organizations that either feed off enviro-hysteria, or can simply steal more of your money to make up for their waste. If you are [...]
January 26th, 2006
Google Censorship Gallery
Just a few days after Google agreed to censor its results to appease China, the results are already evident. Here is a gallery of the websites and words it hides from Chinese surfers.
January 19th, 2006
U.S. govt sues Google for your porn queries
The Justice Department is suing Google after it refused to turn over all Google queries for a week and for 1 million Internet addresses. No warrant or reasonable cause was needed this is for the states research needs. MSN, Yahoo, and AOL already capitulated without a fight. If there was ever [...]
January 16th, 2006
Sleeping under the influence?
While surfing TV, I came across an episode of Everybody loves Raymond where a character who goes to sleep in a car so as not to drive home drunk is arrested. I looked it up, and its true you can get convited for drunk driving for sleeping in a car, with the keys in your [...]
January 7th, 2006
Google Pack
Just out: Google Pack, a suite of software from Google and other vendors that every casual and serious computer user should get. I highly recommend everything in the pack except for Norton Antivirus I prefer the free avast! 4 Home Edition.
January 3rd, 2006
Photo Fun
During my trip to see the family this weekend, I scanned over 100 family photos from Soviet Ukraine, some of them dating back to the 1930s. The photos are in various states of decay, and require touch-ups before they can be enlarged for printing. Fortunately, I have a copy of Photoshop CS2 [...]