Posted in books on October 31st, 2006 1 Comment »
It’s book review time again as I just finished another, ..yeah it’s been awhile but hey its football season!
My latest read, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson is a non-fiction (well mostly) novel about how two men left their mark on the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair in completely different ways. One man [...]
Posted in funny on October 26th, 2006 No Comments »
My father passed along this short video - a Bush and Blair love song. It’s very short and very funny, check it out!
Bush and Blair love song - Google Video
Posted in funny on October 20th, 2006 No Comments »
This is a couple years old, but it is simple awesome. Frank Caliendo is the man, he’s John Madden and George Bush impressions are top notch. Click on the link for a ton of laughs- happy Friday!
Google Video: John Madden - Quick Pop Popcorn Popper
Posted in firefox, software on October 19th, 2006 No Comments »
After a little waiting period I’ll definitely install IE 7, however from everything I’ve read I don’t think it will be enough to make me switch from Firefox for default browsing- above all else I’m too addicted to the great Firefox extensions I use daily. Regardless it’s great to see IE becoming a much more [...]
Posted in software on October 15th, 2006 2 Comments »
Wanted to point out some great open-source (FREE) software that you can use to ensure your data stays secure. TrueCrypt disk encryption software creates a virtual disk (think d:\) when mounted, but otherwise appears as a single random file. So for example say your laptop is stolen and someone manages to hack your password- anything [...]
Posted in business, google on October 9th, 2006 No Comments »
Two of the most popular sites are now owned by a single company as Google announced it will be purchasing the rising star of the web- YouTube.com. For those YouTube fans, worry not the site will remain the same it will not be integrated with Google’s existing video service. Should be interesting to see how [...]
Posted in best-of-web, google on October 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Well if you read this blog then you know I’m a big fan of Google so this by no means is a posting to tell you to start using a different search engine. But I believe it using multiple tools so check out this search engine which thinks outside the box and creates “cluster” groups [...]
Posted in security on October 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Check out a site called SiteAdvisor from McAfee to determine whether a site you are visiting is one you can trust. If completes tests to determine if you are safe from spyware, spam, viruses, and scams. You can either visit the site and manually enter the URL or you can install toolbars to see results [...]