Cherry Keyboards is manufacturing a small number of these Klingon keyboards.
Month: January 2009
Western Digital First with 2TB Hard Drive?
A number of tech hardware sites are reporting that Western Digital may release its 2TB this week with prices running in the $225-$250 range.
Suddenly the 10TBs I’ve stuffed into my basement server is seeming inadequate.
Amusing Onion ‘Parody’: Terror Experts Warn Next 9/11 Could Fall On Different Date
The Onion nails the idiocy that has become Homeland Security,
WASHINGTON—In an alarming development with wide-reaching implications for America’s safety, Department of Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff and CIA Director Michael Hayden issued a joint report Monday warning that the next 9/11 could in fact occur on a different date.
The report, based on intelligence gathered by field-agents, found that a future 9/11 might take place on an entirely new month and day, including 4/24, 6/13, or even 10/12. According to the report, the nation could realistically find itself in the midst of a 5/25 scenario, as well as a potential 3/14 situation in the months to come.
8/28, 6/19, and 11/7 were also cited as possible 9/11s.
“While 9/11 has historically always fallen on 9/11, we as Americans need to be prepared for a wide range of dates,” Chertoff said during a White House press conference. “There’s a chance we could all find ourselves living in a post-6/10 world as early as next July. Unless, that is, we’re already living in a pre-2/14 world.”
It gets better from there.
Buttons Extension for Thunderbird
Buttons if a Thunderbird extension that lets you add different buttons to the toolbar to extend the functionality. The specific need I had was to switch the default SMTP server when roaming around with my laptop. This extensions does the job nicely.
Guitar Hero Metalhead Action Figure
For the most part I wasn’t impressed with McFarlane’s Guitar Hero action figures (mostly because neither the franchise nor the underlying images interests me all tha tmuch), but I must own this Metal Head figure.
GoCode Plugins for WordPress
GoCodes is a WordPress plugin that lets you set up TinyURL-style redirects on your site. Why would anyone want to do this?
Wouldn’t it be useful if you could just say “go to mydomain.com/go/mycoolpost/ ?” Sure, you could use a service like tinyurl.com, but that’s still not too great if you need the URL for a podcast. It’s still awkward to read-out “tinyurl.com/27asr9,” isn’t it? It’s less professional too. GoCodes let’s you create shortcut URLs to anywhere on the internet, right from your WordPress Admin.