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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

http://linuxgazette.net/issue87/lg_backpage.html

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)

After much thought and procrastination, I finally did a dump of my blog that was running on MovableType and imported it into WordPress.  So far I have to say that I’m fairly impressed at it’s easy interface and framework.  In addition, the installation is cake compared to when I installed MovableType

Quote of the Day:
The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything
–Anonymous

So apparently the Huffington Post has an article regarding how a watchdog group is slamming Google for the lack of respect for privacy.  Now, it may just be me, but this is old news.  UVAGeek reported on this a year and a half ago in a story when Google was starting to work on Google WiFi.  Google has slowly but surely been aggregating information on users for quite some time now, such that they could probably match up very easily someone’s name, their likes, their relationships, their religious beliefs, their shopping preferences and anything else that you could think of.  So really, I don’t know what all the fuss is that a watch dog group is just pointing this out when UVAGeek did this quite some time ago; and the fact that really it’s common sense…

So apparently the Huffington Post has an article regarding how a watchdog group is slamming Google for the lack of respect for privacy.  Now, it may just be me, but this is old news.  UVAGeek reported on this a year and a half ago in a story when Google was starting to work on Google WiFi.  Google has slowly but surely been aggregating information on users for quite some time now, such that they could probably match up very easily someone’s name, their likes, their relationships, their religious beliefs, their shopping preferences and anything else that you could think of.  So really, I don’t know what all the fuss is that a watch dog group is just pointing this out when UVAGeek did this quite some time ago; and the fact that really it’s common sense…