Archive for May, 2008

Catching a Burglar

This guy managed to catch a burglar on a motion activated camera. How cool is that.

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Tornadoes in Northern Colorado

Weather in Northern Colorado has been bizarre all spring. We haven’t had the typical nice weather that makes spring in the Rockies so great. Today was just the cap on the spring weather. Six tornadoes were spotted in Northern Colorado. The biggest starting in Johnstown moving north through Windsor and on to Wellington. I have [...]

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US Treasury discriminates against blind

A federal appeals court panel ruled on Tuesday that the United States discriminates against the blind because the country’s paper currency is the same size regardless of a bill’s value. This ruling, if upheld, could potentially cost the US economy $3.5 Billion in both printing costs and retrofitting of vending machines, supermarket automatic checkouts and [...]

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Olympic Committe OKs Amputee with Enhancements

The Court of Arbitration for Sport, world sport’s highest tribunal, has ruled that 21-year-old South African Oscar Pistorious can run in the Beijing Olympics. Oscar is a double amputee, born with out fibulas. The controversy here is not if a disabled person should be allowed to compete, but if his Cheetah Flex-Foot prosthetics give him [...]

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I want to change my Gym

Any of you who were Friends fans (and who hasn’t been at some point in the last 15 years) will remember the episode where Chandler wants to ‘quit the gym’. The episode is a bit over the top with extremely attractive membership personnel who keep everyone from successfully canceling their membership. While this doesn’t really [...]

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.htaccess index file strangeness

Recently had a situation where we have a website in progress and I wanted to password protect the site. Nothing major, just to keep casual visitors from poking around. Thing is, I had a ad server installed in a subdirectory, and I wanted to use that ad server for other sites. I soon realized that [...]

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Excercise Directory

Found this today, thought it was pretty slick ExRx.net Exercise & Muscle Directory

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Newsflash – Cookies not harmful

The Wall Street Journal ran an editorial today entitled Internet Says: ‘Me Want Cookie’ by L. GORDON CROVITZ. This article basically brings to light a security hole in web browsers, the cookie, a concept that has been around since some of the first versions of Netscape over 10 years ago. Crovitz, who is no technical [...]

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Hillary Clinton – Watching those Intellectuals

You may have heard, but the latest campaign issue is support of a summer “Gas Tax Holiday”. The idea is that the government would stop collecting it’s 18 cent a gallon gas tax for three months over the summer to help the common man pay for his fuel. This was an idea that seems to [...]

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3:10 to Yuma

Friday night we watched 3:10 to Yuma, the 2007 version. I’m not going to write a complete review, if you are interested in that, Movie Habit has a great review. I’m just going to give this movie a hearty endorsement. Russell Crowe was outstanding, Christian Bale was stellar, the scenery was beautiful and the story [...]

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