Inane World

My sister pointed me to this one – hilarious (Thanks Doolies!).  The other postings are definitely worth investigating.  They are much funnier than mine :-p http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/12/year-kenny-loggins-ruined-christmas.html

I don’t get it – who on earth decided it was a yummy thing to put great huge chunks of raw onions in an otherwise delicious salad?  Years ago, if any of the onion family were found on a salad, it would be finely diced spring onions (scallions).  These days, more and more I’m seeing [...]

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This is some exciting stuff (well, if you are a geek like me, anyway): http://www.microsoft.com/netmf/about/default.mspx This is Microsoft’s new .NET Micro framework.  This is designed for small devices such as phones, remote controls, toasters, or whatever, which have a processor and can benefit from communications infrastructure (to talk to other appliances or whatever).  Home automation [...]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/02/17/tsr.cafferty.tsa.cnn This is yet another example of idiotic security screening processes brought to us by our friends at the TSA.  If you haven’t clicked on the video yet, the TSA agents made a disabled 4 year old boy remove his leg braces and walk through the checkpoint by himself. Now most people hearing of this [...]

I was going to blather on about my personal opinions on wikileaks and the US Goverment documents which have been (and are being) leaked.  I ran across this response to an MSN.COM article which I think is most excellent, and hopefully the author (Remberasha) won’t mind me re-posting it here: Wow — so many people [...]

Here’s a neat project, but unfortunately we have to wait until 2020 for service to be available.  This will start with Los Angeles to San Francisco in under 2 hours 40 minutes.  They are talking about very frequent trains (every 5 minutes during peak times), and they ought to be useful for shorter hops too.  [...]