Last night, courtesy of the Official Roommate, I received “guardianship” of his old Motorola Razr V3 phone, so now I have to learn all the bells & whistles of that system. At least I have already installed my favorite phone sound from James Coburn’s Flint movies.
One thing I have to admit: even though it isn’t an iPhone, it’s still a pretty cool phone.
OK, off to work. At least I have tomorrow off.

One look at this device and I thought “Uh oh, Steve will not be happy when he sees this.” Trouble is, which country could Apple sue in and get compensation? That, and I have a feeling this device will also be made available with appropriate hookups so that it can be used in the Malaysian automobile being made for that particular market segment.
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And how! I just ran a SpeedTest. Here’s the result:

Beats DSL hands down! I think this cable access is going to be a good thing, don’t you agree? Yes, this is the understatement of the year.

Well, I phoned in my disconnect request to Qwest today and I also converted my former Go Phone into a standard AT&T Nation plan, and I’m leaving my land line behind.
Do I regret it? Nope, not at all.

Since, by the time you view this, I won’t be in any mood to post anything...I better get this set up early. Here’s a whimsical view of life in IT. Set in the World of Warcraft universe, here’s Jonathan Coulton’s “Code Monkey.” WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE.

In the past, I’m sure many of you have seen the plethora of Hello Kitty products available. Last one I heard of was an SD card, by way of Shiny Shiny. Now I ran across these two things...first, Thai police officers being forced to wear Hello Kitty armbands as punishment for various transgressions:

“This is to help build discipline. We should not let small offences go unnoticed,” Police Colonel Pongpat Chayapan told Reuters news agency.
“Guilty officers will be made to wear the armbands in the office for a few days, with instructions not to disclose their offences. Let people guess what they have done,” he said.

And then there’s this:

The world should note the hand-crocheted shoulder-stock muffler and the anodized titanium plating. Several choices in stock wood are available. With a limited run of only 500, buy now before they’re gone! A mere $100 extra includes Glambo’s signature wood-burnt into the opposite side of the handguard. A perfect gift for the young lady of the house.
A bargain at only $1072.95!

They gotta be kidding, right?

The Senior Senator from Massachussetts, among others, oppose wind power off Cape Cod:

Are they that lazy to navigate their way around these fixtures, which would surely have red (port) and green (starboard) lighting, as well as pulse lights to keep wayward aircraft from crashing into them? Apparently so. They’re also the same people which would oppose any efforts to wean our country from the nipple which is foreign oil imports, including constructing new nuclear power plants and harnessing oil from ANWR and extraction of same from the shales of Colorado.
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

This scene does not take place in Massachusetts in the year 2050. Lord, I hope I’m not around to see this....

I could have just as easily placed a photo of Mr. Universe with his robot wife (from “Serenity"), but I think this one from Battlestar (gee who’da thunk it!) gets the point across. God made woman for man, to be his helper, friend, and lover. He did not intend for robots to fulfill that need!

Remember that exploding X-Wing? Here’s what really happened....

ROFLMAO!

Back in the heydays of the 1970s, ideas were floating freely of giant solar power satellites in geosynchronous orbit, such as the one depicted here (click on the thumbnail), soaking in all that power from the Sun and beaming it down to Earth for our consumption. Just think...for all intents and purposes, an inexhaustible supply!
Now that the Pentagon, by way of a chartered report, is seriously contemplating the idea, watch and see how the el cubos will go apes**t and condemn it simply because the EEEEVIL Military-Industrial Complex advocates it. The leftists want us (and by that, I mean the Western world) to remain dependent on oil from the Middle East, and the Islamofascists who control it.

Yeah, someone actually built a scaled replica of the famous Star Wars fighter. Here’s what happened when they tried to launch it.
WARNING! NOT SAFE FOR WORK due to mild language.

At least this didn’t take place at Baikonur Cosmodrome....

HAT TIP: Ed Driscoll

Did you know that the smiley emoticon is twenty-five years old today? I sure didn’t and am amusingly surprised!

Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes—a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis—as a horizontal “smiley face” in a computer message.
To mark the anniversary Wednesday, Fahlman and his colleagues are starting an annual student contest for innovation in technology-assisted, person-to-person communication. The Smiley Award, sponsored by Yahoo Inc., carries a $500 cash prize.

Hey, 500 bucks is 500 bucks! I’ll smile for that!

Microsoft continues to ballyhoo it’s Open Office XML format, part of Office 2007, for acceptance by the International Standards Organization, competing with OpenDocument Format for the prize. Fortunately, the ISO isn’t biting just yet, and as a result Microsoft lost a first-round vote by the national standards agencies.
But they’ll be back for another go. In the meantime, I’ll hunt around a bit to find out just which national agencies voted for Microsoft. It’d be interesting to know.

So it would seem, if the initial premise for the movie based on the following game bears fruit:

Yes, that’s Joust. Man, I played that game at the arcades 25 years ago! Next thing you know, they’ll come out with a live-action version of Space Invaders....

For decades, environmentalists the world over have howled that we need to do this, do that, to pursue alternative energy sources. See the toxic-looking stuff over to the right? It’s the byproduct of channeling a coal-fired electrical generator’s carbon dioxide emissions into an algae pool which cleans it, sends the stuff on it’s way, and thrives on what’s left behind to create sulfur-free biofuel!
And guess who’s doing this? An Israeli company called Seambiotic, with a test plant operated by the Israel Electric Company in the City of Ashkelon. Now imagine applying this technology to every coal-fired plant in the Western World. It certainly sounds promising so I hope that both the United States and Israel continue research into this application. Just another reason to leave that other culture behind while we move forward in the 21st Century.