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I just put up some nice photos of Chicago at night that I took this evening. The sun was reflecting off the buildings in quite a nice way. Enjoy!

So I finally pulled the trigger and picked up the Dell 2005FPW. That’s right, the UltraSharp 2005FPW 20.1-inch Wide Aspect Flat Panel LCD Monitor and man is this sucker pretty. I’ve had the 1702FP for several years and have loved it and I’m sure the 2005FPW will treat me just as well. I almost want to get a second one… In any case, it’s functionality on my primary system was going to be something of a question mark as I run Windows Server 2003 for my desktop (I don’t do much gaming…) and I have an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. Well ATI doesn’t officially release or support their cards on Server operating systems, but their XP versions generally install OK. ...

I used to have Google Desktop installed on my laptop and I loved being able to find things that my brain forgot where I had left them. I also installed Yahoo! Desktop search on my home machine, but I wasn’t that impressed with it and ended up uninstalling it. Well after about 2 hours of searching for an old document last night, I decided to give Copernic Desktop Search a shot. After it was done indexing, it found the document I was looking for within seconds in an old sent email. ...

via Forever Geek, a couple pretty useful google map mods: Cheap Gas and Pseudo-Traceroute. What’s next…a Google map of your hard drive?

I had some weird pregnancy dreams last night. The first was one where I met up with a girl at work that I had a crush on when I was in grade school (Cornelia). I totally mistook her for someone else I actually dated in high school, too. Oops. In any case, we talked for a bit and turns out that she was pregnant. Nothing more to that part than that, though. I just remember wandering around the office, which wasn’t really my office, for some reason. ...

Mom, don’t look at this! The Chicago crime database just went live today and guess what…it integrates with Google Maps! This was something I actually wanted to do after I saw the craigslist hack - put together a google map of crime in the city. I am very impressed with the person that put the site together - they did an excellent job!

I knew I lived in a great city. Buns and Dogs to both be sold in packages of 8!

A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a really slick online password generator. The reason I liked it so much was because it allowed you to generate passwords that could be typed be either the left hand, right hand, or both. I neglected to bookmark or tag the page in any way, however, so if anybody knows about it or something similar please leave a comment. :( Update - I think I found it! ...

And people wonder why I don’t like traveling to Cleveland… It never fails. The Southwest gates tucked at the end of the terminal, crammed with people, and nearly every flight delayed with all prior flights full to the point of not even having a chance with standby. This is where I spent 6 1/2 hours of my day yesterday. I showed up early in hopes of getting standby which didn’t happen. Fine, not a problem. I can occupy myself for a couple hours. Then my 5:15 flight gets delayed until 5:50. The next thing I hear about the flight is around 6:20, telling us it will be in at about 6:30 with a 6:50 departure. 7:00 rolls around and I’m just getting on the plane. Nice two-hour delay, there. ...

In a new paper being presented right now, it has been determined that hyper-threading can permit local information disclosure. As virtualization grows, I’m sure we will see more of these types of vulnerabilities. source [daemonology.net]