Look, I’m psychic (again)… “Hopefully that’s Front Row 2.0…” Funny
Quote:
“Apple’s Mac mini will be reborn as the digital hub centerpiece it was originally conceived to be, Think Secret sources have disclosed. The new Mac mini project, code-named Kaleidoscope, will feature an Intel processor and include both Front Row 2.0 and […]

Uhm… some lady is making houses out of the contents of a vacuum dust bag… and it’s “art”. Uhm, how about no? Gross. (link)

Google Analytics lets you toggle between pie and bar chart, but it really seems logical to have a 3rd chart option that makes a line graph comparing the top 10 items from any report section. For example for web browsers you could see historically how the percentage of Firefox users goes up and Internet […]

The San Diego Chargers are still clutching to their playoff hopes. They beat Washington today (barely)… They needed to score 16 unanswered points at the end to squeak out a win. Just like a couple weeks ago, LaDainian Tomlinson scored all of the Charger touchtowns (3 of them today).

A wax museum in Moscow, Russia is currently running an exhibition that highlights dangers of drug use.
This is what happens if you sniff glue, so don’t do it.

Drug addicts commonly get gangrene apparently… haha It seems that drug addicts also have crappy shoes. He probably got gangrene from walking around […]

Both Google and Apple stock are currently trading at their all-time highs. What’s even more impressive is they are both up 19% in the last 30 days. Not a bad gain for a month. Both stocks are well over 100% gain for the last year.

What do these two companies have in common? […]

Dude… the Dallas Cowboys suck. Missed a 34 yard field goal that would have won the game. Instead it goes into overtime and they lose to the Denver Broncos. Which of course is really lame for any Charger’s fan.
The Dallas Cowboys are BASTARDS!

The arbitrator in the Terrell Owens saga ruled against Owens, forcing him to sit out the rest of the reason. The Eagles could trade him at this point, but they won’t… which means Owens gets to do nothing until March or so when they will put him on waivers.
He’s a prick, but he’s a […]

Some dudes at UC Riverside think they may have created molecules that meld matter with antimatter…
Allen Mills of the University of California, Riverside, and his colleagues say they have seen telltale signs of positronium molecules, made from two positronium atoms1.
Positronium is an other-worldly mimic of hydrogen. In a hydrogen atom, a negatively charged electron moves […]

The NFL power rankings came out for the week and they have the Chargers pegged as the #5 team.
The sucky thing? If the season ended today, they wouldn’t make the playoffs. Let’s hope the Cowboys and Chiefs beat Denver the next two weeks.

My cat is apparently living a double life… I never realized how many friends he had until I checked some logs (these pages have his picture):
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=2817854
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=10852994
Judging from those profiles, Wiggly has some weird friends.

Uhm, it was a straight up ass-kicking this afternoon. The Chargers were up 35-10 at halftime and finished the game 48-10. Those are the good games. The ones that are over in the first quarter. Charger’s kickoff coverage looked pretty crappy (Bills were pretty much starting on the […]

After I made this post about maybe having three pools (technically), I took my building/site plans to the San Diego Department of Planning and Land Use this afternoon to just ask them what they thought.
It turns out I’m exempt from the normal pool fence guidelines because my parcel is more than 3 acres. Not […]

It would be cool if Google automatically tracked AdSense clicks into Google Analytics… But until they do, here’s a little bit of JavaScript code you can use to do it. You can then setup an AdSense click as a “goal” within the Analytics interface.

<script type=”text/javascript”>
// by Shawn - http://www.shawnhogan.com/2005/11/track-adsense-clicks-with-google-analytics.html
// Put this at the bottom […]

Yay! My new computer is here (finally) after about a month of waiting. I’ve had the 30″ monitor that goes with it for more than two weeks, so now I can actually USE it for the first time.
Thankfully Apple has a migration utility built in that will just move all my stuff (users, […]

It seems Google has broken up with me. Not only did they not do it in person, they didn’t call or even bother to email me to let me know they have moved on from our relationship. This blog (not all of digitalpoint.com, only this blog) has some sort of weird partial ban […]

I really don’t get why Google hasn’t added live traffic data for major cities yet. The information is out there and freely available for anyone to use. It only took me a few minutes of digging around to realtime traffic data for all of California, so why can’t Google find/use it? For […]

The pool fence for my house has been the only part about it I don’t like. It’s stressing me out so much that I’ve been dreaming about it. I don’t like it because it ends up cutting my backyard in half and dividing it (there’s also some other weirdness that I won’t bother […]

Google Maps recently updated their API key system so you can use the same key within subfolders. And all I can say is thank f’ing GOD. Was so annoying that if you make a map and put it on your blog that it would need a separate key when viewing the map from […]

Would be ideal if the video quality was better, but it’s still cool…

I saw this on TV last night (I wish I had the video for this, but I can’t find it anywhere yet). This is what Joaquin Phoenix had to say to a reporter while doing an interview for his new movie I Walk The Line…
“Do I have a large frog in my hair? … […]

This is interesting… this appears to be the first “wrongful life” suit… A disabled girl (blind and deaf) is suing her mom’s doctor for letting her be born into a “lifetime of suffering”.
http://www.courttv.com/news/2005/1110/harriton_ctv.html

You want to know why my stock market prediction is going to come true? Because I’m psychic… all I have to do is think about getting more Xserves, and this morning someone from Apple’s enterprise business unit called me asking if I would be interested in any Xserves if they would give me a […]

I think the stock market is about to start a pretty big run up until at least the end of the year (bigger gains than we have seen all year). Tech stocks are going to be the industry that is the driving force for this bull run. We’ll see how my psychic prediction […]

I really wish Apple would update the Xserve to use dual core processors (for a total of 4 cores) like their PowerMac towers because I need another Xserve (or 2) and I’m not sure how much longer I can wait for it.

I’m not a huge gamer, but once in awhile it’s fun to play a game… For example I played Splinter Cell 3, and it was damn good game.

Anyway, someone posted some screenshots from Splinter Cell 4 that look pretty amazing…
http://h0dge.blogsome.com/2005/11/13/splinter-cell-4-to-take-place-in-prison/
This might be a game that would make me actually want to buy […]

Sony is in all sorts of trouble when they were recently exposed as to installing rootkits on user’s PCs without their permission in order to “protect the copyrights of their CDs” which can’t be uninstalled. That in itself is enough to get Sony in pretty hot water.
Hackers are now using backdoors in the rootkits […]

If you own a website or a blog, you need to be using this (really). It’s basically just Urchin 6 (Google bought the company earlier this year), but Google is offering it as a free service now (I think it was like $1,000/month or something before Google bought it).
http://www.google.com/analytics/

Speaking of downloading movies, I wish Apple would hurry up and deploy a full blown Apple Movie Store (they obviously have the ability to do video with the iPod Video and their ability to sell TV shows). If they sold DVDs you could download for $10, it would be the end of retail DVDs […]

Here’s a pretty funny site telling people the benefits of switching from Internet Explorer to Firefox…
Quote:
You’ll only see porn when you want to.
Sick of seeing pornographic pop-ups all over your computer while you’re helping your daughter with a research project? Since Firefox blocks pop-ups, you won’t get tons of porn in your face when you’re […]

Got an interesting call from a law firm (Loeb & Loeb) representing the MPAA today. They want me to settle out of court and pay $2,500 for some movie I never downloaded (and ironically enough I actually own the DVD). Of course, I declined their settlement offer and told them I would rather […]

Well, it looks like Jessica Simpson won the coveted “Housewife Of The Year” awards this year. Although her cover shot on Rolling Stone magazine looks like it might have been ripped off from this Asian guy.

Google wants to be the center of the information universe, so how long do you think it will be before they make a car stereo (which is much more than a standard car stereo of course)?
It can be done now if you want to hack it together, but it would be nice if it was […]

Uhm… people are reporting that they have been receiving their 10Ghz PowerMacs early (as in they already have them in hand). One guy said his estimated ship date was November 29, and he already has it.
So uhm… where’s mine? I just checked my order, and the estimated ship date is November 21 (still).
The […]

I know it’s really not news, but Apple recent filed from patent applications that show Mac OS X, Windows and Linux all running on a single computer (natively, without emulation). That will be nice if I can finally dump my Windows machines I use to test stuff on and just have one machine that […]

Motorola announced two new cell phones today based on the RAZR V3.
The RAZR V3i is basically the same phone, with the addition of iTunes (big deal… I don’t care) and a microSD card slot (which I *do* care about). More memory is always good.
The other one is the RAZR v3c, which will give Verizon […]

So I’ve been poking around this afternoon, and I’ve been finding reports about Cingular’s 3G (HSDPA) network rollout. Supposedly they started the rollout a few weeks ago, and it offers 400-700k data speeds.
The problem? Their website says nothing about it and even if it did, there are not currently any HSDPA enabled phones […]

Why do people pay $2 or $3 for a cellphone ringtone of a song? I don’t get it because most cellphones these days lets you just use an MP3 as a ringtone. Get a freeware/shareware application that lets you cut a certain part of a ringtone (no point in having a 5 minute […]

Well this one is a pretty big milestone I think… My first tool, the keyword tracker broke 1,000,000 keywords being tracked for users (that’s only current keywords and does not include deleted ones).
People seem to like it… hehe Not bad for a punk.

The Chargers won the game today (barely), but why do they insist on giving me a heart attack every week???
Bastards.
LaDainian Tomlinson scored all 4 Charger touchtowns, not bad I guess.

Based on some of the stuff I did for this, I made a system that can be used by any site (just copy/paste a tiny bit of HTML code and it automagically works).
Anyway, if you want to see where in the world people are from that visit this blog (or want to use it yourself), […]

Okay, I need to start making a list of things I want to be able to control from the home automation system for my house… So I’m just going to use this blog entry for that. If anyone can think of anything I’ve forgotten, please leave it as a comment and I’ll update this […]

When you get crazy people calling you trying to sell you something, I always try to keep them on the phone as long as possible so they get more annoyed than I am that they called in the first place.
Today for example some dude called wanting to collect bad debt that people owe me. […]

Okay, this kind of sucks… I now have the most bad ass computer monitor you can get sitting in my office (a 30″ Apple Ciniema HD), but I have no computer I can actually USE it with. hahaha
I ordered a new computer specifically for the monitor (the monitor was a gift/bonus), but I’m not […]

It’s not the first time I used the Google Maps API, but every time I do something with it, I’m reminded about how damn cool it is.
It ended up being relatively trivial to show where in the world all the people currently visiting the forum are at in the world. Added some color coded […]

Rumors have been floating around that the quad processor PowerMac I ordered comes with a 1,000 watt power supply. I sure hope it doesn’t actually *use* 1kW while it’s on, because if it does, I might cause some California brownouts again.
Speaking of which, I hope the operating system has the ability […]

I think that Winn & Sims employees have a single collective conscious known as “The Borg”. How else can you possibly explain three employees independently making identical statements on their personal websites?
Quote:
“Hey Everyone! These are just a few of my law firm links, including my favorite Law Firm: Winn and Sims, APC. I just […]