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So I had up until recently been able to access my .msn email account using outlook. I can no longer do that as Microsoft has decided that they want to charge me money for that “service�. The only reason I kept that email address was because so many people and online places that I visit have that address and I really didn’t feel like updating all places that visit online.
Now I see that I have to change all of that. “bah�
On another note, isn’t the term “social networking� a bit redundant? I mean networking is social in nature or so I thought. You really can’t be anti-social and still network can you? Yes sadly this is a fine example of the thoughts that often run through my head sometimes.
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November 11th is fast approaching. I thought I would post a copy of my grandfather’s Air Force basic trainee photo. The_d was kind enough to color it in for me. I don’t know it just seems fitting to post it.
To those that serve, thank you. To those that have served; thanks as well. We have many watches yet to keep. It’s for the Red, White and Blue that we do or die to keep this land free.
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This is a supposed Easter egg from the Revenge of the Sith DVD. It’s Yoda getting jiggy with it. It’s .wmv, what can I say it made me laugh.
Yup, I know it’s off Digg, but seriously it was the funniest thing I have seen in a while…sad but true.
Riddle me this Batman; installing HP printers with USB cables have to suck, why? First if you use the CD that comes with the printer, you get tons of crap that you don’t need and have to install with the driver. So you are looking at 300 Megs of garbage. If you troll through the mess that HP calls a support section. You can in some cases download just the driver. This comes as an .exe file.
So you run the .exe thinking that will solve all your problems….WRONG! You hunt around the HP site to find out that the .exe you just executed; dumped all the drivers into a folder that it just created in your program files folder. The .exe couldn’t have just installed the drivers properly? I would have even been happy if I had the option to choose where the folder with the drivers was placed.
Yeah if I have to go through this again, it’s going down like it did in Office Space for that printer. Only that will be walk in the park by comparison. This puts me in a perfect mood to take my next networking quiz…
Filed under: Rant
So I was starting get a little over due for a haircut. So I run over to the Base Exchange on my lunch break to get one. I am in the military and male, so usually all my haircuts really look about the same. I tell the nice lady at the barber shop, how I would like my haircut…
 This lady has cut my hair before and done a fine job. I don’t know what happened, maybe she was in a bad mood or maybe because it was Monday. I ended looking like Mr. Potato Head with a buzz cut. The reason I am some what pissed…is the simple fact my head is larger than most people. So for me a bad haircut is like watching the Hindenburg go up in flames; as in bright, shiny and has the tendency to attract crowds and scare small children.
I have three things going for me.
1. My hair grows fairly quickly, in about two weeks my pain and suffering of bad jokes and the many “WTF happened to you” comments will be over.
2. In the military, if you go outside, you have to wear a hat in most cases. This rule will work in my favor for once.
3. There plenty of people on the base that I worked that will have just as bad looking haircuts if not worse. If fact I directly work with a few of them.
Filed under: Tech
So I have been thinking that cell makers have been doing it all wrong when it comes to the high end cell phones. See you can’t ever make a cell that does it all, PDA, camera, gaming, mp3 player. You have to make too many compromises when trying to shove all that stuff into one phone. What they need to sell is a modular cell phone, one we the consumers can customize like a laptop. You make it as close as you can to making the über phone, but you make the all the major components plug and play.
Imagine you go to a website and you’re asked what features you would like your phone to have. Say you want PDA functions with camera too; you could go in and select those options. Also I would have some area of the website be in flash so you could see “your� phone being built by “you�. Another person could go to the website and decided that they want an mp3 player and the ability to play games with their phone. So their phone would be just a little different from the phone you just ordered.
So you got your phone all built and then as you proceed to check out you then get hit with the option to customize your phone even more with a “custom� paint job for the low price of twenty five bucks or something. You really wouldn’t need to include every color under the sun either. I am really stealing my ideas for the website from Nike.com. Just check out their website and just imagine a cell phone instead shoes being sold.
Here’s the catch, consumers wouldn’t really be paying cell phone makers for a customize cell phone. What they would be paying for is the cell phone maker to take features and parts out of the über phone. Then say down the road you decide that you want mp3 features on your PDA/camera phone. No problem. Take your phone to your local cell phone store at the mall and they unlock the mp3 features and take out the small piece of plastic that was blocking the SD slot and, poof, there you go. The store charges you fifty bucks for the “work�.
Heck, and if people find out how to hack the phone and do it themselves so much the better. That would only push the sales of the phone even more. As an example I am sure the sales of the PSP would be much less if the thing wasn’t so hack-able.
Filed under: General
Well this is my first post from WordPress.com. I am really not sure what will be posted here, but I will do my best to keep things interesting, even if that’s in a serial killer stalking a talking chicken type of way. I am really just going to post the first thing that comes to mind. Most of it will be straight gibberish.
There really isn’t anything to do about it but to relax, put your feet, chuckle and say “WTF?” as you read this. If this blog gives some weird insight to whom I am, then all I can say is I am sorry and NO I will not pay for visits to the head shirker. You choose to read this, so you have nobody to blame but yourself.
