Archive for September, 2004
I purchased my Sony Clie US-50 at CompUSA. They offer this Technology Assurance Program (or TAP) that provides you with a starter kit for your PDA as well as an extended warranty. I usually don’t got for extended warranties, but I have for my PDA’s since I have gone through quite a few of them. [...]
SpaceShipOne Succeeds with First Shot at $10 Million X Prize
0 Comments Published by Jim September 29th, 2004 in UncategorizedThe first filight is completed, now they need to launch again within 2 weeks.
Listening to the radio this morning they were talking about some police stations (Florida, Philadelphia and others) who filed suit against Ford claiming the Crown Victoria Police Interceptors were unsafe. Then they turned around and ordered some more. Ford refused to fill their orders, so they sued Ford for that too. Well a judge ruled [...]
Intel has this
IT Manager game. Kind of like The Sims, but not
as entertaining, unless you are a computer geek I guess. You play the
fearless IT Manager, and you must manage the IT resources of a growing company.
I just discovered it today, and I am ranked 9th in the Asia-Pacific area (don’t
know why I am ranked [...]
After many reminders I have finally updated my Blog profile photo. I shaved my beard off a few weeks ago. I had intended to update my photo before BorCon, but didn’t get around too it. When I was talking to Danny Thorpe at the “Meet the Team” he commented that he didn’t recognize me because [...]
If you really want to evaluate your bias (known or unknown) you should
try contributing to www.wikipedia.org . They enforce a Neutral Point
of View (NPOV), and if you post something biased then other editors will call you on
it really quick. When there are that many people editing you get
revised to NPOV pretty quick usually. [...]
I took the OS Personality Test and my results were:
You are Red Hat Linux. You’re tops among your peers, but still get no respect from them. It’s all right with you. You have your sights set higher.
If you don’t want to take the test you can just look at all the results.
I am down in the basement of the building I work in. I don’t go down here too often. This is where they have some training and conference rooms. They added a new room since I was last down here. What is the first thing you think of when you see this sign? Keep in [...]
Check it out, I am posting from Carl’s Jr. just to say I can. I should try
attaching a photo of my two wrapped Jalapeno burgers. Maybe next time.
So I am driving to work the other day and the sun is shining through the clouds. It is really cool looking so I pull out my camera can catch a few photos. They actually come out looking pretty good so I will share them here with you.