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One of the cool “add-ons” to geocaching are Travel Bugs. Travel Bugs (or TB in shorthand) are items that move from cache to cache. You purchase a travel bug, which includes a set of dog tags that are stamped with a unique serial number. One tag you attach to an object of some sort, one…
Tivoless
Oh please, please, please, Time Warner, follow in the footsteps of Comcast and start offering a Tivo. It’s nothing against your fabulous HD DVR (other than it’s lousy Atari 2600-esque interface, poorly designed remote, and the complete lack of features that make the Tivo great – like the ability to easily record only first run…
The Real Brierwood Plaza
As a public service, I present to you the real Brierwood Plaza. I half expected that the preservationist in me would find some good qualities in the building as I got up close to it, but I found nothing. It’s not well built. It’s a lot of fascia over lumber. It’s has no unique aspects,…
Buffalo <> New Orleans
How pathetic it was to hear Congressman Higgins whining about FEMA like Ray Nagin. I mean, come on. The last thing we want to do is compare our little snowstorm to friggin’ Hurricane Katrina. So, we had a lot of power outages and fallen trees and some flooded basements. Hardly a comparison to, say, completely…
Spam Filtering
This week’s Spam article is on a more serious note. Having long been a subscriber of McAfee’s security products, including McAfee SpamKiller, I was very curious as to certain changes made in their recent update from version 7 to 8. In version 7, SpamKiller would download all your mail to a “holding area” passing through…