What the fuck is up world? Happy Fathers Day! It's been an good and bad week for me for sure. Good in the sense that since the last entry, I had my first blood test and found out that my cancer is gone! That right, 0 proteins means zero cancer bitches! That news pretty much trumps any bad news that could arise. However I did have a near death withdrawal of a powerful steroid that I've been taking at the direction of my doctor which put me in the hospital a few days ago. It was pretty UGLY. As a matter of fact I can't imagine a situation that was much uglier. I wound up in the hospital with the worst migraine I've ever had and vomiting everywhere. They thought my brain had swelled and wound up pumping me back full of the steroids and dilaudid and anti-nausea drugs and giving me CT scans. Let me tell you a CT scan with a skull splitting migraine is no fun. Either way I'm past it and ramping off the steroids much slower, but Christ it was a rough day. Thank god for my wife and my parents. Otherwise I'd be screwed.

So as usual I had 30 or so rad links lined up, and Windows 7 tweaked out and I had to reboot and they're all gone now. So I'm starting over from scratch today. Let's start digging through it:

Acronis Drive Monitor - A drive monitoring tool : I found this in a 'how to geek' tutorial. It'll scan the drive or do in place monitoring. It will email you alerts and all sorts of other cool stuff. It will pull all your S.M.A.R.T. info and even has events. I was surprised at the info it dumped out just after install. If you want something to continually monitor your drive health, this is a goos way to do it. It also comes with a trial of drive image if you wanna screw around with that too.

7 Linux Firewalls compared - If you want to put together a firewall for yourself, here are a few you can screw around with : I've used monowall and IPCop. Monowall is tiny and can fit onto a flash, and hence into any small device. You could technically use a palm pilot if you wanted. IPCop is good too.

Woman gets DUI - After passing out in her car : In the Taco Bell Drive through. The funny thing is she had two passengers. Who lets their driver pass out in the drive through. I wonder if they were all passed out, since they were both arrested for possession of pills they didn't have prescriptions to.

Hospital in Scotland to use Robot workers - To clean waste, deliver food and distribute drugs : When I was in the cancer ward at U.C.S.F. they had robots running around delivering blood and the such. They put bunny ears and bunny tail on them.

Vintage Fathers Day Adverts - Happy Fathers Day! : Looks like we used to just get Dad smokes and booze for fathers day! I was more of a tie and/or socks kinda kid, but my dad didn't smoke so that probably limited my buying options a bit.

Nigerians are confounded by attention paid to BP spill - They get the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez dumped on them every year : And no one blinks an eye. Just goes to show it really is all relative. The Niger delta is probably the place most polluted by oil spills in the world, and we don't exactly see the oil companies bending over backwards to help them. Then again, they aren't exactly bending over backwards to help us either.

Little Caesar's Pizza - Now with 100% more METAL!!!!! : This dude REALLY loves his job.

A thousand people are blocking the gates of the ports in Oakland - To keep an Israeli Zim from unloading : Looks like the Bay Area is setting a new precedence. The article actually says three hundred people, but it says a thousand as well. Anyways, it't the first time American's have prevented an Israeli ship from docking. Go Oakland!

Potato Battery - A batter that could change the third world : Looks like it's equivalent to a 1.5 Volt D battery. The example shows it powering an LED which is 6 times more economical and many times brighter than the kerosene lamps in use all over today. But as usual, as with all things brilliant that could change the world, this will probably be supressed, and the aid groups will be refused to distribute it for some stupid reason. No I'm not bitter....

Google Command Line - A command line interface for Google web : You can interface with Picasa, Blogger, all the gogle apps, and many more applications/sites. Makes life pretty easy from what I can see. The syntax looks pretty simple as well.

Some dude got screenshots of Digg's new interface - Looks like some Alpha Tester leaked the photos : The interface looks pretty clunky. Although this could technically just be someone screwing around trying to get people's hackles up. You never know. I found it on Mashable so it's likely legit, but take it with a grain of salt.

SFO, San Jose and Oakland airports are moving to free wifi - I always was ashamed that Sky Harbor had free wifi and SFO didn't : I mean come on. Phoenix can get their shit together enough to give it away, but silicon valley has to partner with t-mobile and charge for it. I mean come on. Anyways, it's nice to see them moving on. Must be the Virgin influence.

Solar Powered Messenger bag - It captures the charge and stores it in a capacitor : Then you can power anything from it. Too bad its so damn fugly. The description on the red ferret journal says it all " looks like it was designed by a drunken Klingon on a unicycle". ROFL.

Quick Silver Screen - Looks like it's back to normal : It's been in my feeds for so long and they were pumping out all these invalid feeds, but now it's all back to normal. I would be wary of downloading any movies that are still in the theaters, but it's yet another site for streaming media that's online.

(0) comment. Add a Comment here.