This seems like a great idea to me. I bet there are all kinds of uses for things typically considered to be 'waste' products like this. Biofuels are another example. But this is just awesome!
http://www.greeninventor.org/index.shtml
I find myself using my camera phone more and more. Hmm....
Spotted the other day at the grocery store. I'm not sure which is most disturbing; that Aliens have landed, that they're creating zombie soldiers from our dead, or that WWN is the "world's only reliable newspaper".
The other day I was coming up the highway behind Mario up there in the station wagon. The instant he gets on the highway he crosses three lanes-- all at once -- to get to the left lane where I assume he turns on the autopilot and proceeds to take a nap. There is no one for him to pass, not for quite a distance, and he's doing all of 71-73 mph. WHERE do these people learn to drive??
Finally, this evening I am walking through the parking lot to the store entrance when this guy turns his lunchbox right in front of me to park in the space I'm about to walk past. While I feel bad for the guy and his undersized genitalia, that does not excuse him from several big no-no's here (besides lack of respect for pedestrian right-of-way and general parking lot etiquette)
First, if you are going to advertise your business, do so on a vehicle that doesn't scream "hey look at me I've got more money than I know what to do with, so I waste as much as possible driving this cube and feeding it with gasoline!". Second, while you are driving a vehicle on which you are advertising your business, try not to DRIVE LIKE A PRICK. Don't you think that does more harm than good? Third, if you are going to drive LIKE A PRICK in a vehicle on which you are advertising your business; don't put your name and picture on the home page of your website which you have plastered across your back window. Not only do you make your business look bad, but you've given me a name and a face to associate with the guy who DRIVES LIKE A PRICK as well. Tsk tsk tsk....
Last week somebody asked me if I wanted a server. I said uh, sure.
Some company was retiring an "old unix server" since they just got a replacement and I was asked if I wanted the old one. I guess they turned to me because this was a unix server (whoa...). Of course this is just a vanilla Gateway® server so it hardly matters what OS is currently on it, but whatever.
After I agreed to take this thing I was wondering what kind of Unix it was running. Solaris? No, it would probably have been running on Sun hardware if so. AIX? No, it would have been an IBM server most likely. A flicker of an idea about another possibility entered my mind, but I quickly banished it.
So I take possesion of the server. I look it over. Not too bad... dual 733MHz P3 with four scsi hard drives and it even has a redundant power supply. For some inexplicable reason it has only 256 MB of ram, but I should be able to add some more.
I plug in the beast (did I mention it weighs like 75 lbs?) and fire it up. After I get through the bios crap and initializing all those drives, I get to see what os it's running. It's .... SCO Unixware! Yea!!!
The server came to me at no cost, but obviously it is not free, because it is haunted by viral IP and burdened by evil daemons (what a P-OS). I think it's time to set this poor thing free. On a side note, unixware takes like 10 minutes to boot up (time until I get a login prompt). That's pretty fucking sad. Anyway, it's time to format and install Linux!
I was doing a Windows XP Pro SP2 clean install on someone's computer the other day when I was greeted with this lovely error:
Windows is telling me, in the middle of the initial install, that ' ' (as in NULL/nothing/no text/empty) is not verified to be compatible with windows xp. Hmmm.... I wonder WTF ' ' might be. Then it has the nerve to ask me whether I "want to continue installing the software"!! Yes or no... I hope I pick the right fucking option because I don't have a fucking clue what it is talking about.
This incident made me rembemer a little logo I created when XP first came out. If only my "Resist XP" campaign had worked. Sigh.
I was playing with my camera phone the other day and discovered it has an "antique" mode. I tried it out that evening, so now I can show you how Home Depot must have looked to our ancestors.
(or is that TIE 3ON D'POT ?)
Today I am going to spout off about foreign currency transaction surcharges imposed by credit card issuers, because this practice PISSES ME OFF.
First let me explain how things used to be.
When you used your Visa or Mastercard overseas for a purchase in a foreign currency, Visa and Mastercard converted the amount to your own currency in order to bill you, and gave you a favorable exchange rate. They also charged you a small fee, amounting to 1% of the purchase amount, for providing this service. That was reasonable, and it still got you nearly the best exchange rate possible.
What credit card issuers are doing now:
At some point, at least six years ago, the credit card companies began tacking on their own foreign currency transactions surcharges, on top of the 1% levied by Visa and Mastercard. The credit card issuers do not provide any services to justify the additional 1% to 3% surcharge (varies by card issuer). The currency exchange is handled by Mastercard/Visa. Mastercard and Visa provide toll free phone numbers in foreign countries in case you have a problem with your card, whereas most card issuers do not.
