Idling User

If you press the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on a Google search for brute force you’ll end up at a pretty empty and strange 404 page on Microsoft’s Xbox site. Funny.

Ironically, Movable Type exhibited brute force while publishing last night’s post. It claimed it received an 500 error while pinging other’s trackback URLs. Not thinking it had actually worked, I tried again a little bit later. Little did I know, it actually had worked causing the trackback to be posted multiple times. […]

I’ve used too many companies’ products and services that do a lot, but do very little very well. Microsoft is a great example of this - being everything to everyone. Jennifer Rice wrote on this topic, being all things to all people, a topic that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. […]

Some users (Aaron Swartz and Dave Winer) are reporting their Gmail accounts show 1 Terabyte of storage space! Not mine. I’m feeling left out!

On a serious note, I honestly can’t see how I will use a gigabyte of online email storage without IMAP or POP support. I know Gmail is “different,” […]

Vonage dropped the price of their unlimited plan from $34.99/mo to $29.99/mo. For me it was already far cheaper and more useful than a similar plan from Verizon. I’ve been using Vonage for my two landlines since last July and can’t complain. The downside to VoIP is obviously that if your network […]

Recently someone told me the story of how they were stopped and detained by police because they photographed the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. They were passing over the bridge while taking the photos out the window. They were well within their rights to take photos of the bridge, however, they were still stopped, detained, […]

As of midnight this evening I will quit smoking. I should post to this blog in the new found spare time.