So I have to say that these guys got some mad skills in their video editing and I’m sure that they used a Mac to produce the video, but I was somewhat disheartened by the ending. Check it out for a good chuckle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHueWwdIR7k
Derek Webb – Mockingbird – Please, Before I Go
So the first thing that I think of when reading through the Google Operating System last night and came across this article regarding the storage capacity of gMail and how it’s going to go to Hotmail’s limit of 5 GB and add 1 GB on top of it. Google eloquently termed this "Infinity + 1" back in the day. I like to think of it more along the "These go to 11" terminology. So they link back to the official gmail blog article regarding the increase in storage. Holy moly! Overnight I went from about 2.9 GB to 3.3 GB – wow. And what’s better, my Google Apps e-mail account now has a whopping 25 GB of e-mail storage 
This made me smile though:
and chuckle a little bit thinking to myself, "Dang, that’s sweet."
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer – C’est la Vie
I love the tech life
It lets me IM the guy
Sitting next to me
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium – Torture Me
So for those of you that have never read the comics over at XKCD, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language, then you’re in for a real treat…
so I have minor issues sleeping at night, primarily because I tend to work long days and then come home and think and then realize that I need to go to the gym, and end up getting home around 11, the endorphins pumping and I can’t get to sleep. And then I start having times like this comic that XKCD posted on their blag
So my question is… how did they know that my clock goes to 13:72?
The Silk Road Ensemble & Yo-Yo Ma – Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon – Night At the Caravanserai
So I know that there are several of you out there that probably are wondering, “What’s Geek going to write about here?” Well someone had the nerve to write a parody spam letter making fun of the Nigerian e-mail spams that you may receive on a regular basis.
Quite humorous though I don’t know if I really agree with the information that’s presented in it, but nonetheless, still funny
So I’ve been using Windows Live Writer blog client software for my blog publishing. I used to use good ole w.bloggar, but I found that the user interface was no longer being developed and functionality was only being pushed out on a semi-regular basis – you could say that the software development lifecycle had slowed to a crawl. Besides I’m able to interface to my different blogs that I contribute that reside on different platforms (WordPress, Community Server, SharePoint).
So one of the nice modularization capabilities that Windows Live Writer brings to the table is the ability to have plugins that allow you to insert information into your blog post more easily. One of which is the “Insert QuoteOTheDay” plugin which today made me smile and laugh at the same time due to the hyperbole of the quote.
Quote of the Day:
The enraged colonists were mad.
–CJ’s US History Work
Now playing – The Black Crowes – Struttin’ Blues (Shake Your Money Maker)
So apparently Java is in quite a few places according to the latest Java setup installer.
Apparently it’s in the following places:
This of course leads me to the question of where would we find .net devices? Do they exist? Besides cell phones that are “smart phones” (when was the last time that a Java based phone was referred to as smart?)
The Black Crowes – She Talks To Angels (Shake Your Money Maker)
So with regard to Facebook, I have two things that frustrate me to no end right now…
1 – Notifications. Why is it that I receive e-mail notifications sometimes fifteen days later? Come on now Facebook, get your act together and beef up your SMTP relay with the outside world so as to handle the load as you continue to scale your system.
2 – Blog import. Facebook apparently is supposed to go out and crawl blogs every few hours to pull the RSS feed, do a quick comparison of the last update timestamp and then pull the new items into the “Notes” section. At first I had some minor issues as my blog was not RSS compliant and had errors (I blame this on the version of MovableType that I was running but however have since changed route and am using WordPress). However, since then it has been working “sometimes.” I’ve had something like five or six blog posts since the last time that it has pulled and posted the newest notes, what’s up with that? The RSS feed is legitimate according to different online feed validators. Again I see this as a scalability issue.
Helpful tip of the day from your friendly neighborhood Geek… if you’ve ever been forced to document your network and need to get all of your network adapter MAC addresses, IP addresses and what not, feat not there’s a quick and dirty command line tool you can use to do just that.
I suppose I should delineate in stating that this is applicable to Windows XP and Windows Vista (sorry Linux, I have no information for you today).
From your friendly command prompt, type “getmac” and boom, all your MAC addresses and their transport connections. In the past, most of you may have said, “Well this is of little use to me…” but in my world, I see this is highly helpful in that there are times where you have systems that aren’t connected to a network and therefore, there’s no way to query such information through the GUI (at least that I know of).
| C:\Users\uvageek>getmac Physical Address Transport Name ======================================================= Disabled Disconnected 00-50-56-C0-00-07 \Device\Tcpip_{59E2A2B2-202E-4072-856A-4D6F19A3ADF6} 00-50-56-C0-00-01 N/A 00-50-56-C0-00-08 N/A |
Anyway, hopefully this tip was as useful as it was to you as it was to me finding it, and yes you’re more than welcome to tell me that I’m dumb for not knowing that this existed and that I just hadn’t located it since apparently I’m somewhat of a command line junkie…
So my good friend Danny down at UVA sent me a link this evening that I read and was like, “Nooooo!” Granted, I don’t own an iPhone, nor do I intend to procure one until the iPhone has been upgraded to 32 GB of solid state memory and is on the UMTS/HSDPA with a downlink of 14.4 Megabits per second.
Alas, that’s another subject altogether, back to the link at hand… over at TechCrunch there was an article posted on the 10th of July entitled “Will an iPhone Blend“. Apparently some company known as BlendTec has a blender that can even take on the iPhone and make it into a nice (okay, so maybe not so nice) smoothie of dark plastic.
Nonetheless, check the video out when you get a chance – probably my favorite part is the slow motion section
Editors – The Weight Of The World (An End Has A Start)