Apparently, ebert thought that Daredevil was good. Perhaps Mr. Affleck did better than I give him credit for. Guess I’ll have to go and see.

Via Keith - Smith & Wesson introduced a new .50-caliber handgun. Mmm…not bad at all.

The five-shot revolver with an 8

nothing goes right at all. The past two have been like that, at least in terms of computers. Friday, my portable hard drive tweaked out on me and now it won’t fire back up. I went to install my new video card last night, and the install freezes the machine. My BIOS also seems to have developed this odd problem of also freezing. I decided to update my BIOS in hopes that was what was causing the driver install to freeze, and now my computer, which I thought only had XP on it….is suddenly booting linux! Tripped out! Oh yes, it now only sees one of my two processors….errrrrrrrrrrrg.

Two weeks ago it was revealed that Microsoft’s MSN portal targeted Opera users, by purposely provided them with a broken page. As a reply to MSN’s treatment of its users, Opera Software today released a very special Bork edition of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. The Bork edition behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing the MSN site will see the page transformed into the language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork!

How cool is that?! Way to go Opera - they’ll probably get sued by Microsoft now. Check it:

ouch Good thing I’m not this crab. This is video shot from a robotic probe doing work on an undersea pipe.

The enclosed note reads:

This is a video taken in 6000 feet of water. An undersea robot is sawing a 3mm wide slit (1/10th of an inch … remember that width) in a pipeline. The pressure inside the pipeline is 0 psig, while the pressure outside is 2700 psi, or 1.3 tons per square inch. Then a crab comes along….

Finally - somebody (Boxwave has made a cable that will both sync and charge the Axim at the same time. Expected ship date: 3/2/2003. w00t

Happy Singles Awareness Day!

I’d make a theme, but most of the ones I put together myself are just plain ugly. Maybe on the new site, I’ll be able to make prettier themes…we’ll see.

Is the usage of preemies to refer to premature babies a relatively new development? I heard it for the first time a few weeks ago and have heard it numerous times since. Seems to be an attempt to de-personalize premature babies, but maybe I’m just being an extremeist…

I have had to show my id three times now before I have even reached the gate. What purpose does this serve!? We’ve already been shown that they (the terrorists) can purchase valid tickets, and I’m sure whipping up a government-issued id wouldn’t be that tough, anyway. I just fail to see what this does besides make it more of a pain in the a** for me to travel.
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The client I’m at this week has a guy that’s recently a hardcore Mac switcher. He let me play with his iTitanium Powerbook and I’m just about ready to dig into my savings and pick one up. mmmmmm