Concept Cars

I'm sick of all these concept car fuel cell or hydrogen-powered. They always look weird, unsafe, and generally "out-there". There is a reason the general public isn't concerned about these technologies: they aren't going to a car straight out of the futuristic car shows of the 50's seriously. If they want to revolutionize the energy source, then create a normal car (it needs to be indistinguishable from any other car); if you want some zany design, send it to Ford, GM, Toyota, etc. and then wait 10 years.

abrev.

What does P.S. stand for? I mean we are use it, but I've never known what is actually means? Sure google could help, but I'd rather not know something so basic from google. P.S.: personal secret? I mean I sorta use it as an aside or personal message. Also I was sitting in the bus looking at the clock and wondered what does PM stand for? Seriously WTF does PM stand for besides "night-time"/afternoon, hmm? This is spurred because I was on Digg and someone wrote "Et Cettara" I hadn't ever thought that etc. stood for anything, I thought it was more of a asdf; but no its probably some french word. Its just I've seen Misc. spelled out: miscellaneous but NEVER EVER have I seen etc. spelled out.

Mice of DOOM!

Ok so to settle the wired vs wireless mice rants I keep seeing.

Picture this: a mouse that is wireless BUT can plug in (via either a mini USB cord or properiety plug) to take advantage of power instead of the battery and faster response time to apeise gamers. Sure they have those ones with cradles, but those are freaking cradles, you can use it while its charging! I put 2 x AA NiHM batteries in my wireless mouse and wouldn't use no stupid Lithium-ion battery I would forget to charge. Now one of you mice manufacturers make it happen!

Note: I hate wired mice because the cord is always too short and gets in the way; that and there is that same kind of tug that I'm sure my dog hates when I put him on a leash.

A day in the life of a procrastinator

I saw Rebecca tonight...at ICCCC. I don't think my feelings for her are as strong as I thought previously; however, they do still exist... heh, she is such a random person :)

Doctor: 40% of World of Warcraft players addicted:

"WoW is like a slot machine. Everytime you kill a mob you get something, or nothing. You could get a lump of meat or an Epic item. But you have to kill a lot of mobs to get anything useful.

You ever see those old ladies in the casinos at the slot machines? That's a WoW addict.

When you hit 60, it's not a game anymore, it's a job. You become a professional Tank, Nuke, Healer, whatever. It's your job to show up online at a certain time and stay there until the job is done. If you screw up, you get fired. If you keep at it, maybe you'll get lucky and get a better item, maybe not. Thing is..there's always a better item.

WoW is perhaps the best game ever made. It's style, story, sense of humor, and playability makes it Blizzard's masterpiece among masterpieces.
It's also the worst game ever made. The commitment and time required to get the most out of the game, especially at level 60, make it more of a job than a game."

My Toolkit - Essentials

Download, install, update and scan with these:


Spybot: Search & Destroy(make sure to "Expert Install" and install teatimer...it runs in the background and verifies which programs are allowed to run on start-up)


AVG (anti-virus)


ZoneAlarm(firewall...protects against such trojans as mydoom & blaster)


Ad-Aware SE(removes adware/spyware)


SpywareBlaster (prevents spyware)


A-squared(antivirus...annoyingly requires registration; free)


Avast(anti-virus...requires registration yearly and takes up a lot of system resources; slows down computer)





Most importantly:
Firefox (web browser; use instead of Internet Explorer; secure; lots of extensions are available to give it more features)



I could be an asshole and just tell you to switch to Linux, but I only use Linux half of the time, so these should fix your spyware/virus/trojan/adware issues.

P.S. Feel free to ask for any help. And if you start using Firefox, there is a cool extension called "Ad-block" that you can use to block those annoying advertizements.