Is it possible that WordPress makes you blog more vs. Blogger? I’m not sure why, but for whatever reason I seem to write more since I switched to WordPress.
This chart shows the number of posts per month I’ve made…

Something rather odd has been happening lately. I do something that someone doesn’t like (hey, I can’t please everyone). Then they start spewing about how I hate [insert whatever they are here] and am just out to repress/hold them down.
In the last week, I’ve been told I was repressing blacks, I was trying […]

Dude, I played poker tonight and I got another royal flush (and then a few hands later quad queens). Thankfully this time I had some money to bet when I hit them.

I’m curious what people would think about someone (talking about me) simply not having an email address in this day and age…
I’m not talking about pretending to not have an email address, but ACTUALLY not having one. Like if you sent me email at my old address it would bounce back with an […]

If you grew up watching the Charlie Brown’s Great Pumpkin thing, you will think this is funny (unless of course you have no sense of humor). Thanks to Alison for letting me rip her off on this one.

Another random email I just received…
This is a happy day today! I am leaving my line of work for the last twenty five years.
No idea who this guy is, but hoooorrraaayyyy!!!! Happy days are finally here!!!!

Jack Black is pretty funny sometimes…

For anyone using Firefox, this is a great plug-in (made by Google). It will sync your cookies, passwords, bookmarks, history and window tabs (you can pick and choose just certain things if you want) to your Google account.
What that means is you can use Firefox on a different computer, and all your stuff will […]

Hahaha… this is so funny…

Okay, is anyone tired of my server admin tips yet? Yes? Too bad.
Monitor everything… Put as much info at your finger tips as easily as possible. Put that info in a place where you will always be looking at it for some reason. For example, I made a vBulletin plug-in that […]

This is probably the stupidest video I’ve seen in awhile… which of course I watched in it’s entirety… so well, uh… yeah.
Anyway, Dax is a dude I met out at SES in San Jose over the summer.

The best part is you get to watch him eat his Jack-In-The-Box lunch for about 10 minutes. […]

Does anyone else besides me think this is weird?
Under the procedure, a small incision is made at the back of the scalp to remove 30 or 40 hair follicles which are carefully sewn one by one onto the patient’s eyelids. Only light sedation and local anesthetics are used and the cost is around $3,000 an […]

Okay, normally Apple products are extremely polished and well thought-out. But this airline power adapter they came out with today is just plain stupid.
I bought one today when I ordered one of Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops at the same time. Well I just noticed some fine-print on it…
Important notes:

Using the MagSafe Airline […]

After all the beta and release candidate versions, Firefox 2.0 is finally finished and released.
Go get it.
If you don’t know what Firefox is, then you especially need to go get it (really).

Yay, more server admin fun! Here’s a useful *nix command that will let you determine what system calls a program uses… For example, I wanted to double check that libevent calls within memcached were using epoll() and select() or poll() calls (epoll scales better) on my SuSE Linux machines…
server:~ # […]

Purely out of necessity, I’ve become a system administrator/architect for digitalpoint.com servers… and a few people have been asking me for general admin tips to make things stable and scalable, so here’s a good one for you…
Use memcached… no really, use it.
memcached is a distributed memory caching system that allows multiple servers to access the […]

I have to thank my old roommate Tracy for this… she apparently thinks of me whenever she hears this song. haha Great.

The RIAA/MPAA should take a note here… I never heard of this song until Tracy told me to go find it on YouTube… and I just purchased the whole album via iTunes […]

There appears to be an alien in the camera dome at the construction site. Great… now I need to go there, climb up there, clean it out and hopefully not get some alien egg implanted in my chest.

What a good idea… maybe we should send old textbooks to soldiers in Iraq to give them some added bullet protection…
A candidate for state superintendent of schools said Thursday he wants thick used textbooks placed under every student’s desk so they can use them for self-defense during school shootings.
“People might think it’s kind of weird, […]

Here’s something cool that Google has added to Google Sitemaps for site owners…
Let’s you see how much Google’s spider crawls your site in the last 90 days, and even gives you the option to instruct Googlebot to increase or decrease their crawl activity on your site.
Here’s the stats for the Digital Point forum… Google crawling […]

Is it me, or do you think there might be a worldwide stingray terrorist campaign going on?
A leaping stingray stabbed an 81-year-old Florida boater in the chest, authorities said Wednesday, leaving its poisonous stinger lodged close to his heart in an incident recalling the one that killed Australian TV naturalist Steve Irwin last month.
Fire […]

Another random email I got…
i am a sculpturer working with hardwood.I am looking for fob.
That’s cool you are a sculptor… unfortunately you haven’t found fob, just fab.

After breaking the top 5 last week on ESPN’s power rankings, they broke the top 3 this week.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/powerranking?season=2006&week=7

Since the Chargers are pretty much bad ass this year, I’ll continue posting stuff I run across…
Seems all the experts are pretty smart… except for that Joe Theismann guy. He must be drinking again…
5. Who’s the favorite now in the AFC?
Allen: The San Diego Chargers are the best team in the AFC. They would […]

Hmmm… what the hell?
At a news conference at an Italian restaurant, Tyson said he would likely go just four rounds and that future stops on the tour might include bouts with women, possibly professional boxer Ann Wolfe.
Wolfe, from Waco, Texas, is 21-1 with 15 knockouts.
“She’s such a prominent, dominant woman in the […]

Did anyone happen to catch the San Diego Chargers’ offense take apart the 49ers? San Diego ended up winning 48 to 19… 4 rushing touchdowns by LT and 2 passing touchdowns by Philip Rivers.

I went to Vegas this weekend for UFC 64 at Mandalay Bay. I’ve never been to a UFC fight before, but man they are bloody. This is a picture of the second to last match tonight. Uhm, can I have some blood please? Thanks.
(The guy being picked up actually started with […]

Did I miss this somehow, or is this new?
Google’s Code Search is *really* handy for programmers. For example, say I wanted to see sample code that uses the preg_match() function in PHP, I could do this query:
preg_match lang:php
Neat!

This guy can dance *and* hand out beatings…

How in the hell did this guy not know what was going to happen if you do a line of powdered wasabi??? hah

Well first of all, I was just checking this site out because this is probably the most amazing homemade halloween costume ever made, but it gave me a really good marketing idea for the MPAA…
They should just setup an affiliate program and pay affiliate marketers 25% of the fees they collect from the lawsuits/threats. […]

This is a live webcam shot (well live as of this posting) of my basement. The only reason I think it’s cool is because the three important sides are backfilled now, so we can finally start digging the footings for the main house (the front side isn’t backfilled yet because the dirt from the […]

Looks like they broke the top 5 for the first time in a long time (well I dunno… maybe sometime last year) on ESPN’s NFL power rankings…
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/powerranking?week=6&season=2006

How cool would it be to live somewhere that was below freezing? Then you could make 10 billion lego ice cubes and build a house out of them.
Dude, I think I might move to the Antarctic just so I could try it.
http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=EL502

To make up for the Padres’ loss today, the Chargers beat the Steelers today. The first half looked terrible for the Chargers, but after they let Philip Rivers do his thing in the 2nd half, they actually looked pretty good). The Chargers won this one with their defense and passing game and not […]

Well at least the Padres won *one* game this year (the Cardinals swept the Padres last year in the playoffs). Maybe next year we can win two games, and then the year after we could win three games finally.

I know this is just one of those stupid examples where a company (eBay in this case) buys every keyword in Google Adwords that they can come up with, but it’s still kind of funny…
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox/?url=piracy

Someone pointed out something kind of funny/ironic… Since the MPAA decided to sue me, they have actually made my blog a few times more popular than their own site (mpaa.org). If you look look at the Alexa graph below, the green line is the old URL for this blog, the blue line is […]

I got a letter in the mail today that Hummer has put a 100,000 mile warranty on all 2007 vehicles. That’s cool… especially considering it was 36,000 miles before. I just got a free 64,000 mile extension on my warranty.
http://www.hummer.com/100kwarranty

Some guys from my gang of ninjas getting ready for a high profile mission we are about to embark on…

“It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium,” Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday.
The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions […]

Japanese people can be kind of funny when they want to be…

WTF is going on here? The Chargers lost on Sunday, and now the Padres lost today to the Cardinals in the first post season game of the year for them.
Oh well, whatever… it was an awesome day in San Diego, and we had awesome seats for the game (4th row, next to 3rd base). […]

I don’t think you can appreciate my hatred of Steve McNair right now. I’ll just leave it at that.