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  • Free USB Key From Microsoft

    Gizmodo turns us onto a Microsoft promotion giving away free USB key. Just log in with your .NET passport and answer 4 questions (the answers are on the above link). The key should arrive in 6-8 weeks.

  • Google Search With Prizes!

    Blingo
    From Blingo Buzz:

    Pay attention. The Blingo Frenzy is coming.
    February 27, 2006 • Blingo Frenzy

    Starting on March 1st we’re adding more prizes to Blingo and launching a new feature we call the Blingo Frenzy, a short period of time where Blingo gives away prizes like crazy. We might suddenly give away a bunch of iPod Nanos in one hour, or we might give away movie tickets or iTunes every few minutes! You never know what and you never know when.

    So, pay attention or you might miss the Frenzy. Oh, and you might want to make sure your Friends are paying attention too.

    We have sent Sarah to the movies 4 times for free because of Blingo! No spam. No fine print. Blingo simply returns the exact same search results you would get from Google but they put 3 paid links at the top and 2 at the bottom. They are making all their money from Adsense. If you prefer, sign up with my wife:
    Blingo


  • Xanga has an rss feed

    Want to follow your child’s Xanga in a news reader but can’t find the rss feed? Fear not! Xanga has an rss feed.

    If you wanted to look at my Xanga, http://www.xanga.com/djuggler (yes, Xanga is for school kids. I set this up when comparing blogging software), in rss you first need to know that http://www.xanga.com/djuggler gets translated to http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=djuggler. Now change home to rss for the feed url to look like http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=djuggler

  • Today’s Useful Information for Women and Men

    For the ladies, information about a better sports bra. For the guys, simply a cheap thrill. Not safe for work. Guys may find their afternoon bouncing away.

    And since we are on the subject of time wasters in the name of a good smile, here’s a safe for work (with sound) video of a European award winning commercial you might not see in the United States.

  • Previous Post Retracted

    Seeking more info. Bearden High School does not appear to be in lock down.

    The shooting occurred at The Cove in West Knoxville. Looks as if a woman is a hostage of two hispanic males and an officer was shot. The officer’s name rings a familiar bell.

    1:35 p.m. Authorities have closed the gates at Bearden High School while the suspects are still at large. The school has not been officially locked down.

    See WBIR for more info.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I work alone.
    Master: People do not succeed in isolation.

  • Lost Honor

    If I had a sword, I’d fall on it.

  • Norton Antivirus 2006 Prevents Viruses By Making Computer Unusable

    You know. Peter Norton was king of dos but when windows came out I think he got confused. But he’s reached new heights (er, lows) with Norton Antivirus 2006. Nav2006 brings WinXP to its knees! Symantec suggestions a solution. I just tried their solution and it is pathethic. Windows XP is totally non-responsive. To uninstall NAV I’m going to have to reboot into Safe Mode (F8 on booting) and run msconfig (start->run->msconfig) to turn off all Symantec references, reboot (since you can’t uninstall from safe mode), uninstall from the control panel, reboot, and install NAV2004 (in leau of nothing else for this client). Client recommendation: drop Norton Antivirus!

    I’ve been an advocate of Symantec for years but this is the last straw. Do NOT buy or install any Norton Antivirus software. There are far superior products in Kaspersky, AVG, Avast, and Trendmicro. The other "top dog&quot, McAfee, has lost their mind too. If I have to deal with the McAfee SecurityCenter on one more machine I’m liable to go looney.

  • 400 meter relay

    When I was a freshman in high school I participated in track. I loved the thrill of the pole vault, and the challenge of the hurdles. Although the high jump was interesting, I just didn’t do well. I would have continued the track team throughout high school but in my sophomore year I was offered my first regular job and had to choose between practices and money; money, the great evil, won and took me down the wrong path.

    One small winter track meet has so few competitors that for the 400 meter relay we raced 4 boys teams on the inner lanes and 2 girls teams on the outer lanes but officially the girls weren’t racing the boys. I was set as the anchor which meant I could bring the race home! Our first runner did well as did our second runner. As I watched him hand off to our third runner I was certain that we’d win the race. Then it happened. Our third runner set off in a hard jog. He seemed to be thrilled but we were all horrified. All 3 boys teams easily passed him and moments later the girls who had lagged have a track behind passed him. My dreams of winning had been crushed to a paniced desire to simply pass the girls and I wasn’t sure I’d be able to do that. I set off in the hardest sprint of my life and I beat the girls and brought our team in last.

    Never would I have thought that race would become the metaphor for my life. I’ve been running that race for so long and I’m so fatigued. My race is different. I feel like I also have spectators throwing things under my feet trying to trip me. Can I even beat the girls at this point?

    I have 11 minutes before the first team crosses the finish line;The first team just crossed the finish line. I have probably 2 hours if I’m lucky and not tripped before I’ll cross the first finish line. I’m not even on the track right now.

  • Free Pancake Day Has Begun

    Remember, today is Free Pancake Day at IHOP from 7am-2pm.

  • It Starts

    Let the day begin!

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I wish it was painless.
    Master: If it was painless, you could be dreaming.

  • This is a bad day

    I woke at 2am. By 2:30 I could tell that this was going to be a bad day but I told myself I was being negative and needed to imploy the power of positive thinking. I wasn’t being negative. This is simply a bad day.

  • Spyware

    For those trying to figure out if loadadv64 (probably in c:\windows\system32\loadadv64 is bad or not, it is bad. Delete it and the associated registry keys. See also and also.

  • More thoughts on the marijuana cave

    So, when building a 47 meter tunnel to a cave from your garage, do you:

    1. buy a house that happens to sit on a cave, discover the cave, construct the tunnel, then sell pot
    2. Ask a real estate agent for a house that sits on a cave with a tunnel already built from the garage to the cave, then sell pot
    3. Find a cave, pay off local contractors/inspectors, build house on cave, sell pot
    4. Grow up playing in cave, smoking pot in cave as a teenager, have a marijuana induced vision of a house ontop of the cave to make smoking pot more convenient, fulfill dream but take it too far
    5. Wish that you had purchased your property in Denver

    And do you think, just perhaps, the ususual amount of electricity that this house used might have helped investigators figure out something wasn’t right? It still amazes me that one, people go to this much trouble to take such great risk, and two, that with so much thought put into this that they ever get found out. I suppose they bragged to the wrong person. "Duuuude! I am the Potman! Wanna see my cave?" It’s not a secret if you tell anyone.

    Updated (4/4/07): Pictures are circulating the Internet again.