Comet Holmes
Originally uploaded by Dan Coulter.
Tonight, Julie and I went out to see Comet Holmes (the brightest comet in 10 years). It’s grown 40,000 times brighter in the last 6 days and looks amazing. To the naked eye, it looks like a fuzzy star off the side of the Perseus constellation.
Thankfully, [...]
Tomorrow, Julie and I will, in all likelihood, be appearing on Len’s podcast, Jawbone Radio. Around 9PM EDT, you should be able to watch the show being taped at Len’s Ustream page.
We’ll be in Cleveland, OH for the rest of the week and will post plenty of pictures of the world’s largest rubber stamp [...]
WordPress 2.3 is coming out in a few days. If you’re interested in what the new features are, Ryan Boren has pointed to a great list of the 10 things you need to know.
So last night I hooked up this old PCI RAID controller card in my computer. Basically, I am using it because my motherboard only comes with one ATA/IDE channel (replacing it with a bunch of superior SATA channels). I have a bunch of old IDE hard drives sitting around with reasonably high capacity, so now [...]
via Official Google Reader Blog
Google Reader, the online RSS reader just added cool tweaks.
You can now search your subscriptions. This was a feature that was strangely absent from a web app written by a company whose business is centered around a search engine (yes, I know they’re really an ad company). This is far [...]
Don’t sign up for Quechup. Fortunately, I don’t care about pure social networking sites, so I didn’t sign up for it when I got an email supposedly from one of my friends. Don’t sign up for their site, they’ll spam all of your friends.
My computer at work died today. Also, I hope the building doesn’t fall on me.
About two and a half years ago, I unplugged my answering machine because I stopped having a land-line phone.  Since moving into our new house (and getting a land-line for DSL), we’ve gotten numerous telemarketer calls. I hooked up my old answering machine and found three messages on its non-volatile digital memory. They are [...]
I’ll let the original article speak for itself:
Just as the Citizen Bank branch opened Saturday morning, a man walked in with leafy boughs duct-taped to his head and torso, and robbed the place.
“He really went out on a limb,” police Sgt. Ernie Goodno said Sunday.
Police said the leafy man didn’t saying anything about having a [...]