Man, unbelievable. I’ve been having to go through my blog comment entries lately to delete penis enlargement spam. There has to be a way to get rid of SPAM. C’mon, we’re smart enough to put a frickin’ robot on mars and control it from earth we should be able to figure this out. Anyone else have this problem on their blogs? BTW, SPAM now accounts for something like 80% of all internet traffic (or maybe it’s just email traffic I can’t remember, that’s still pretty insane).
6/25/2004
This bothers me a little bit. I was into rockets a little bit as a kid and my dad grew up with them. It’s a shame that it’s being ruined for the “war on terror”.
Wired News: Rocket Hobbyists Dropping Hobby
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All I can say is, I’m glad I use a Mac…
“Users are being told to avoid using Internet Explorer until Microsoft patches a serious security hole in it.”
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6/24/2004
Here’s a great article about the US’s ridiculous holding of criminals without charging them and how it just makes matters worse.
Bruce Schneier: Unchecked police and military power is a security threat
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6/23/2004
Enter coupon code “DVDTALK” and get 20% off at deep discount dvd till the 25th. This is a pretty great deal considering their prices are already really low and you get free shipping.
Deep Discount DVD
Coupon code: “DVDTALK”
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Sandwich Baggies – $3
1 lb Marijuana – $3000
Being expected to pay taxes on illegal drugs…Priceless
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6/22/2004
This brew came out horrible. I added .5 oz too much boiling hops and it destroyed the flavor. I’ll just list the ingredients.
Ingredients:
1 can hopped Cooper’s Australian Lager LME
2 lbs Plain Light DME
1 oz Tettnanger hop pellets (boil) (should’ve been .5 oz)
.5 oz Tettnanger hop pellets (finish)
.25 Irish Moss
1 pkg Nottingham brewing yeast
6/20/2004
Check these guys out. They have a really cool raw sound that I like a lot. (Thanks Nic!)
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6/17/2004
6/16/2004
This is a cool search app that lets you enter notes and it will search for midi files with that string of notes. Now all we have to do is have a way to hum into it and the days of “damn what’s that song?” would be over….ok so we might be a little ways away. Blah, who am I kidding. The RIAA would cry like a little bitch and shut it down I’m sure.
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6/14/2004
This was posted on John’s Blog and was going to comment on it but you have to be a member of polywogg so I’m posting it here with my 2 cents.
I grew up using Windows and work with computers everyday. I never really thought Windows was that horrible I just preferred the Mac OS due to it being a little easier to troubleshoot when something breaks. The past year or so however the tides have changed quite a bit. With the advent of cheaper broadband access and cheaper computers more people than ever have internet accessible computers. Therein lies the problem.
Before, a vast majority of internet bound computers were manned by somewhat competent computer users. Now, with users like my mom who want nothing more to get online and look up christmas decorations and maybe send an email or two, viruses and spyware are becoming a huge problem. When a box pops up that says “Click yes to continue.” a lot of users don’t know any better and even users that do know can still easily get infected by these pests.
I mean the fact that everytime I sit at a PC to fix at Berklee and find some sort of adware installed tells me something has to change. My own desktop PC has been reduced to a crude storage device because everytime I try to get online with it my browser is crashing from spyware.
Why should I spend 2 hours cleaning out my Windows machine when I’ve got a Powerbook that I can use with almost no trouble whatsoever? Now some people argue that it’s simply because Windows has such a majority marketshare. This may be true but I tend to think it has more to do with the fact that Windows is so tightly wrapped around Internet Explorer and other Microsoft web protocols/features that it makes it a matter of finding the best way to dupe users into accepting actions that trigger the installation of some trojan/spyware/adware/etc.
I think it’s a case of trying to give users a 500 piece toolbox when all they need is a screwdriver. Microsoft also likes to do this thing where a program will automatically do shit for you. It’s really annoying and is another exploit that hackers use.
Windows users reading this, tell me what you think, have you had similar experiences?
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Someone has taken 2 Nickelback songs, dumped them to mono, and made a stereo file where the left side is a song they did in 2001 and the right side is one they did in 2003. I wonder how many others like this there are. Enjoy.
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6/13/2004
yield: 5 gallons
Ingredients:
2 lbs Munton’s Wheat DME
3 lbs Munton’s Extra Light DME
2 lbs Munton’s Plain DME
.5 cup Crystal Malt 20L
1 oz Cascade hop pellets (boil)
1 oz Tettnanger hop pellets (finish)
.25 tsp Irish Moss
Juice and Zest from 2 lemons
1 pkg Nottingham brewing yeast
Heated 2 gallons of water to 170 deg F while steeping the lemon zest and crystal malt. Brought to boil and added malt and lemon juice. Brought back to boil and added boiling hops. Added finishing hop and irish moss for last 5 minutes. Cooled to 80 deg F and added to 3 gallons of cold water. Pitched yeast.
June 20th:
Bottled to 12 16oz bottles and 2 6L mini kegs.
This brew came out pretty good. I was unable to take a beginning hydrometer reading but I’m pretty sure it’s about 7%.
6/12/2004
So I have 2 monthly gigs now playing keyboard. I’m now officially a member of the Shadowkings. We’re a House DJ group I guess. I improvise various keyboard/synth parts over house beats/songs. I played for the first time the end of May and it was awesome. I basically got to do whatever popped into my head. Soo much fun. So here’s the deal: The 3rd Wednesday in the Month we’re playing at the Milky Way and we’re going to be playing 1 Friday a month at the Redline in Cambridge.
June 16th – Milky Way Lounge (JP) 10:00
Other dates to come…
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6/9/2004
Here’s some old album covers. I especially like the “Julie’s Sixteenth Birthday”
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6/4/2004
Here’s an article about an emerging technology to scan old vinyl albums and wax cylinders and extract them to digital audio (high fidelity no less)
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