News of Rants n' Raves

One of my biggest pet peeves is websites taking content from another publication (printed or online) and using it at their own. Quite often they'll copy the entire article word for word and give no credit to the original author. Other times, they'll change or add a few paragraphs, but the overall content is the same.

Tonight, I saw another case of this. A website that will remain unnamed copied this article from Silicon Optix: ...

It finally snowed around here last night. We probably got less than an inch but it was slippery. Do you think people would remember how to drive in this sort of weather? Hell no. And I mean this is Wisconsin.. not some place like Virginia where the whole state shuts down when they see one flake of snow.

You'd also think that the city would look at the weather report and go "Oh shit.. its ...

hi i bought an ipod video off the apple site i live in toronto,ontario and on the FedEx Site it say it is currently in missisauga,ontario...and it says that it is "at dest sort facility."......What is that? :

Woah, anyone else keep getting 3 SitePal ads on one page, all slightly starting at different times, for a Max-Headroom-esque chatterbox??

Any way to permanently mute her??

I have to make the distinction here, since I live in Canada, many would probably think I mean BestBuy Canada... but no... I mean Bestbuy USA.

So a while ago when BestBuy had their sale on Nero 6.6, I figured I'd pick it up since it qualified for the free upgrade to 7.0. For $40 USD I figured it was a good choice! This was Sept 3rd when the order was placed.

Unfortunately, BestBuy was ...

i bought a Maxtor drive (quite a while back - a year and a half ago maybe) and just installed it.
it's a DiamondMAX Plus 9, one of the better models at the time if i'm not mistaken.
Parallel ATA, 160MB, 8MB buffer, Fluid Dynamics Bearing motor - which should make it QUIET.
well, i just installed it to replace a rather old Western Digital Caviar WD 200BB drive (mfg Nov 2002).

well, it's quite ...

Well, I never thought that I would be like Wiz, but it has come to this:

Track your package

Date Time Location Service Area Checkpoint Details
Aug 16, 2005 --- WARRENDALE PA US Departure Scan
Aug 15, 2005 06:59:00 PM WARRENDALE PA US In transit
Aug 09, 2005 05:59:00 PM BELL CA US In transit
Aug 08, 2005 06:52:00 PM BELL CA US In transit
Aug 06, 2005 --- US Carrier notified to pick up ...

i discovered this quite by accident:
if you have an email address like xxx.yyy@gmail.com, you will receive also emails sent to xxxyyy@gmail.com.

is this some sort of convention i don't know of ? that periods in an email address (maybe just before the @) can be omitted and it still works OK ?

Last night I was browsing the web at home, and my windows explorer froze up. The hard drive kept working on something, but I couldn't even access the task manager. ---I had a feeling of deja vu---. Actually, exactly the same thing did happen to me once last week. I had rebooted then, and kept working normally without any further problem. At that time, I thought it was a random freeze--just an infrequent and probably ...

Ever since the forum went down due to a hacking attempt today, everytime I load a page I get the attached error.

Can this be fixed?