Monthly Archives: May 2004

Something I Learned This Year

What’s really struck me this school year is my lack of friends. I’m different from typical people. Very different. I don’t watch TV. I don’t have a cell phone. I don’t visit other people. Heck, I rarely leave my computer. But I’m going to need to. Amazing things are accomplished when people work together –…Continue Reading…

Using Google to Redirect

Just stumbled upon this through a page on Blogger (they’ve got a new layout and a ton of other new stuff today, by the way). You can redirect to any URL through Google. This is the address you use: http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=, putting the URL you want to redirect to after it. For example, you could redirect…Continue Reading…

Slashdot | Using GPUs For General-Purpose Computing

Quote from the comments unrelated to the story… Well, it’s like UNIX, it’s userfriendly, it’s just selects it’s friends very carefully. Source: Slashdot | Using GPUs For General-Purpose Computing

Google News Quality

How is this junk getting into Google News? Who Wants to Be a PayPal Millionaire?? Lottery Post, NJ – 11 hours ago … If you do this and this alone, I GUARANTEE that within the next 30 days you will receive over ?10,000 in cash via your PayPal account. … Source: Google Search: paypal I…Continue Reading…

Why Computers Sometimes Crash!

By Dr. Seuss If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. If your cursor finds a menu item followed by…Continue Reading…

Oh Geez! MSN Toolbar for Popup Blocking

Microsoft is advertising their MSN toolbar for their Internet Explorer web browser. I love how they capitalize “FREE”. Big deal! As if anyone would pay for that junk (unfortunately, someone would…) No company would ever dream of charging for a toolbar which advertises their search engine. It’s a quest for desktop space on consumer computers,…Continue Reading…