Oh as an ef-why-eye, I’ve been working closely with FT Rea to launch Richmond’s newest community blog: The Fan District Hub. FDHub is a much grander undertaking than WotBN.net. Think of it more as a ‘zine — which is great since FT has some serious ‘zine experience. Also, I designed FDHub as well as developed [...]
The guy that invented FORTRAN died this month, John Backus. For those of you without the wonderful sublime pleasure of knowing FORTRAN, it was the first high-level programming language ever invented. This means that it was the first one to sort of kind of look like English. If you have actually used it before, you [...]
Recently a release from the Tennessee Center for Policy Research scooped Al Gore on his giant Tennessee mansion that is basically made from the burning carcasses of dinosaurs. In 2k6 he ran up an average monthly electricity bill of 1,200$ and an average monthly gas bill of 1,080$ (so says the i-nets, ymmv). The inventor [...]
So I am back on my (culturally insensitive) Star Trek Jihad. As netflixing all seven seasons of Star Trek: Voyager will take literally* six years, I’m asking for your help. Does anyone have all seasons of ST:VOY for me to borrow? Thx. *My new pastime is using “literally” when I mean “figuratively.” I love love [...]
Earlier we, you and I dear reader, had talked earnestly about launching an uber local news resource. Well, dear reader, that time has come: WotBN.net Thus far, WotBN will provide you with succulent news bites and a succinct schedule of events focusing on our neighborhood — get excited. The idea behind a community driven news [...]
I love Netflix and I talk about it a lot — because let’s face it, I love love love it. Sometimes I’ll hear about people who have broken up with Netflix because their relationship had grown cold and loveless. They’d get home from work, eat their teevee dinners and never touch one another. This breaks [...]
I have a Wii. It took standing in a line for eight hours Saturday night (until Sunday morning) to get one (in the freezing cold), but I got one. Wolf, I saw your brother there. He has a massive dog. Here are some initial thoughts on the Wii: The position/orientation sensor of the Wiimote is [...]
Last night I went to the Northside Walmart to pick up a second Wii controller. Word on the internet-slash-street had been Walmart would put Wii software and accessories on the shelves on the 16th. To alleviate stress during the Wii Launch I thought I would pick up my second controller ahead of time. I got [...]
Here’s some MLP (Mindless Link Propogation) for you. Former governor Mark Warner and possible 2008 Presidential candidate made a campaign stop in Second Life, the MMORPG (massively-multiplayer-online-role-playing-game) which I know almost nothing about, but which always seems to have mildly famous people showing up in it. This kind of blew my mind – it may [...]
I decided to check out digg.com this evening as is my custom every 2 minutes, and here’s what I found at the very top: “3 out of 4 women now prefer a plasma tv to a diamond… THANK YOU GOD” “The study found 77 percent of women surveyed would prefer a new plasma television to [...]
A long time ago there once was a Firefox extension to rule them all: Spellbound. This extension allowed you to spell check the contents of forms in Firefox. No longer did you need to worry about getting PWN’d by spelling something wrong in a heated argument about gay marriage. But alas when Firefox 1.5 came [...]
The Ninth Circuit Appeals court ruled that border officials have the right to search your laptop without a warrant. As Ars Technica points out, this is not an especially radical ruling, although it sure feels crappy. They can already rummage through your luggage without a warrant. Yet there is definitely a difference between searching through [...]
Not really. Full story here. These will be the standard passport starting in August. I knew they were on the horizon, I just didn’t realize they were so close. I think wrapping your new passport in aluminum foil would be an ok precaution against identity theft? Midas would probably know better than me. Anyway, get [...]
Apparently a product that lets you stream your music collection over the inets. Check out the image on their front page: They must be a German company …
The new Top500 List is out. VT ranks in at 28th, still top 30!!