I was minding my own business surfing the web tonight and came across an article that pissed me off so bad... It was about how our schools suck. Having a daughter who will be in first grade next year and who has attended pre-k and kindergarten at the very same school I gave it a whirl. I have to tell you that after reading this pile of crap I wouldn't line my birdcage with it. So since I like to dispute bullshit here goes.
Ok, lets face it the sinking ship that is our economy is going down faster than an intern at the White House during the Clinton administration. One of the ways that the creators of consumer products is coping with this is by shrinking your product sizes quietly, without fanfare and charging you the same price. If you weren't aware of this practice take a look at The Consumerist and their section on the shrinking sizes of the products you use.
It's not very often nowadays that I outright sound the bullshit alarm so maybe this will have more umph!
Over at Mouseprint they usually have a great deal of 'good' consumer information. However on this one I think they are being led by three blind mice.
We bought our first home a few years back. Unfortunately it seems that our neighbor choose badly whom to finance a vehicle purchase through and used DriveTime. Why do I say this, keep reading...
I would like to encourage Mr. Perdue to please sign the bill HB89. As a concealed weapons permit holder I feel that my rights as a responsible adult are curtailed since I cannot carry into my workplace and cannot leave my weapon in my car.
That means from when I leave my home for work until I return home in the evening I am not able to protect my self should it be needed because of policies put in place by my employer that provide NO protections from a determined person who wishes to forcibly carry a gun into the workplace.
A recent blog post over on tuxmachines has me a bit torqued. Oddly enough it follows a similar thread in the PCLinuxOS forums. It has to do with the fact that the PCLinuxOS ISO is still dated 2007.
My headline sounds a bit intense doesn't it? A little 1984'ish? Not possible in America? WRONG.
We all know that if you child is truant too often they will throw the parents in jail. Personally I dont think thats all that great of an idea but they need to protect the money that schools get for your kid attending so this is one way they do it.
One school district here in Georgia is thinking of taking their athlete drug testing a step further, making testing of all students who drive on campus mandatory.
If there are two things I cant stand its arrogance about ones self and being rude. SmartSource, you say you are there to help people but you have the most un friendly pile of shit activex control in the world. What kind of an asshole does it take to build a goddamn control to print coupons for cents off, then hyper secure it to make sure some dumbass doesn't print more than two .50cent off coupons for their $9 package of Huggies and not build it in a manner thats forthcoming as to why its not going to work!
Well my server has been undergoing a botnet attack for a few weeks now. Havent had time to contact all the idiots who have a compromised box that is attacking mine so here is the list from the last 24 hours. A quick summary, these machines have all tried to hit a trackback module to insert linkspam. If you see your machines IP here you may want to hire a security professional.
66.79.167.155 (6679167155.us.coreisp.nl) 2:1
24.215.3.58 (fargo.101.net) 1:1
38.105.84.82 1:1
I find myself in an interesting situation. Recently while playing with my Linux installs I decided to give some of the games a shot. Being especially fond of RPG games I took a look at several. One of which was an online MMORPG. I tried it out and it was pretty good. While solitarily advancing my character I started to run into some of the other players in the world. As with any online community there were shining stars and there were bottom feeders with a little variety in between.
