Random Stuff
Experiments & Sheep
You may or may not have noticed that I have been experimenting with my post times. I used to post exactly at 8 AM EST. Now I’ve been shifting it a little later in the day. This has a little to do with random laziness and a little to do with seeing what that might [...]
Laptop Depot (Canada) Fraud
I have just discovered that Laptop Depot (laptopdepot.ca) is willing to defraud their customers by selling them pirated software and operating systems. What would cause a company to think that selling stolen software is OK is beyond me. Especially since Microsoft and others have been targeting such criminal sales people by ensuring better validation and checking.
An unfortunate member [...]
Oprah Endorses Chicken Coupon Riot
A wonderfully sensational headline, it tells you everything and yet nothing. Last Tuesday, May 5, Oprah announced to the world that all they had to do to get a free meal from KFC was to go to the Oprah website and download a meal coupon. The best part of this whole fiasco is that the [...]
To Mom
With today being Mother’s Day I thought I would talk about mothers.
Mom, Mommy, Mother. All of us have one. I would expect that most of us actually love and care for our mothers. A quick look around at all the talk about Mother’s Day shows that rather than talking about mothers who are exceptional this [...]
Google’s Goats
In what has to be the most awesome and yet insane thing I have read Google has decided to go totally natural and cut their lawn using goats. Yes its not a misprint, goats.
According to the official Google blog:
This spring we decided to take a low-carbon approach: Instead of using noisy mowers that run on [...]
