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Supercomputers, Programming, and Life in Mississippi

Entries for February, 2009

Jeff Dunham “Spark of Insanity” Tour

Last week Laura & I drive to Tupelo to see Jeff Dunham perform at the Bancorpsouth Arena.  We’ve seen all of his specials on Comedy Central, and I’ve seen alot of his Youtube clips.  We’re both long-time fans of Walter, and had been looking forward to this for a month.  So how was it?
In 1 [...]

CNN Front Page News – Facebook reverse TOS changes

The economy is melting down, homes are foreclosing, a few wars in the middle east, planes dropping from the sky, satellites colliding in orbit, and earthquakes in distant locales.. and what’s front page on CNN?
(CNN) — Under fire from tens of thousands of users, the social networking site Facebook said early Wednesday it is reverting [...]

How to Get Stuck Words to Flow Again – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog

Found this great article entitled “How to Get stuck Words to Flow Again”.  It focuses on writing, but it applies to much more.
It isn’t burnout. You aren’t exhausted, or sick of writing and wishing everyone who wants you to write something would just go away for a week
What you are is stuck. You know what [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentines Day!

Stolen Wallets, Not Hacks, Cause the Most ID Theft? Debunked

Wired’s Threat Level blog has a great article debunking a recent report that Stolen Wallets are the most common means of Identity Theft.
Their problem with the article?  They only consider people who know how their information was stolen.  65% of identity theft victims have no clue how their data was stolen, but I agree it’s [...]

iPhone OTA Sync: Nuevasync vs Google Sync

Update 3/11: Updated with new information: Googlesync is limited to 5 calendars.
Last week Google came out and announced native sync support for Calendar & Contacts over-the-air (OTA) via a Push mechanism.  This was a long-awaited feature for many iPhone users (myself included), but there was already a competitor out in the field that many of [...]

Obama’s secret Health Reform Plan

A friend of mine pointed out that this entire piece is an Opinion piece by Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York, so it’s very possible this entire article is just sensationalism & propaganda.  That said, the thought of it still scares the crap out of me.

My sister sent this to me today, an [...]

Airport Extreme & the Dell 3300 Wireless Print Server

A while back I bought a new Dell Laserprinter and the Dell 3300 Wireless Print Server.  I configured it flawlessly to talk to my  Linksys WRT54G with WAP enabled, and life was good.  My wife’s been using it nonstop, we mainly got it for the speed since she’s one of those people that likes to [...]

Google Mobile Sync for iPhone!

Finally, the one feature I’ve waited for!  Google has stood up an Exchange server to allow the iPhone to get full Push Notification & Updates for Calendar & Contacts.. Hopefully email will be along soon!
Google SyncBeta for your iPhone
Synchronize the built-in calendar and contacts on your iPhone with your Google account.

Get Google Calendar events on [...]

Economic Stimulus WTF?

Just saw on CNN they had a list of cuts made from the latest Economic Stimulus… A few of them:
Partially cut:
• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings original bill $7 billion
• $75 million from Smithsonian original bill $150 million
• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund original bill $800 million
• $100 million from National Oceanic [...]