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Jon figures out the secret of government contracting

Posted on March 10, 2006 | Leave a comment

Jon: So what does EAGLE really stand for?

Dave: I’m having trouble googling for it…

Dave: it’s a big Department of Homeland Security-wide IT contract, methinks.

Jon: Extremely Agile Gubmint Looting Exercise

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Ctrl-Alt-BURN

Posted on March 10, 2006 | 1 comment

That look is Bill Gates’ reaction to a hilarious dig by the inventor of control-alt-delete, who at a gathering at the twentieth anniversary of the IBM PC said this:

I may have invented control-alt-delete, but Bill (Gates) made it famous.

Here is a great video of this moment.

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Can God make a rock so big that he can’t lift it?

Posted on March 5, 2006 | 1 comment

A good answer to this logical trap is:

“Yes, and then he would lift it.”

(thanks to Clint for the quote)

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Important appointments

Posted on March 5, 2006 | Leave a comment

I recently switched to Calendarhub, an online calendaring app, so I could access my calendar from any machine. Last week I found the following appointment had been entered for me for an upcoming Saturday morning:

Milk and/or shave a goat.

When I saw that my first thought was, did someone hack into my online calendar? But then it dawned on me that Kathryn found my open browser window and entered the appointment on my behalf.

At least I get to choose between milking and shaving. Goats can be moody you know. Though I’m guessing a shaved goat is easier to milk, unless she’s insecure about the whole bald thing.

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Because Iraqis don’t count?

Posted on February 28, 2006 | Leave a comment

I got this interesting news contradiction in my newsreader this morning:

Here is a similar occurrence noted by Farksters: Image link.

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Randomness

Posted on February 27, 2006 | Leave a comment

I found a random posts plugin for WordPress – scroll all the way to the bottom of this page to see it in action. Pointless? Nerdy? Yes, and yes.

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Oh, the shiny new widget

Posted on February 27, 2006 | 4 comments

Filelight allows you to understand exactly where your diskspace is being used by graphically representating your filesystem as a set of concentric segmented-rings. Filelight creates a complex, but data-rich graphical representation of the files and directories on your computer. The net-result is something similar to KDirStat, however the data is more dense, and the representation more informative. Most people tend to use Filelight to find out where their diskspace is concentrated, and this is what it is mostly designed to do.

And here’s a Flash-based alternative called torta: Link.

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If there’s something strange, in your neighborhood… Who you gonna call?

Posted on February 27, 2006 | Leave a comment

Kathryn saw one of these today:

Now THAT’S good marketing! Anthropomorphic turds make the BEST mascots!

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oranchak.com launch

Posted on February 26, 2006 | Leave a comment

After many false starts I think I’ve found the best new front end for oranchak.com: WordPress 2.0. I’ve even managed to pull in all my old LiveJournal posts (not that they have any intrinsic value or anything, other than occupying space on the machine). Things still aren’t yet looking great in IE but I’ll fix that soon. It feels good to be getting away from the dreaded blogger.com.

Be sure to have a look at the blogroll and “oranchak.com stuff” links in the sidebar for other stuff to see.

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