Whats Inside your VCR
My favorite part of this was recognizing the buzz noise was from the Wheel of Fortune. BZZT.
Things I Love: Spiceworks
Prepare for Geekery.
Something I love and felt like sharing was this wonderful program called Spiceworks. It's a free network monitoring tool that runs off my desktop computer. Nightly and throughout the day it scans my corporate network, and using things like WMI and other interfaces, it develops an inventory of everything that plugs in. I now know instantly what printer needs more toner, what computer has the evil known as WeatherBug installed on it. I can pull a report in seconds that shows me how many Office licenses I'm using, what computer brands live in my network. It has a builtin help ticket system, should you choose to utilize it. I don't personally because it's just as much work for someone to submit a ticket as it is for them to call me, but for a multi person IT department it would be helpful. It's a great great tool, and the best part is that it's absolutely free. Tightly integrated with an online community of support, this tool is amazingly simple and powerful.
Spiceworks is a 17MB Free download available at: http://www.spiceworks.com/product/
Wikipedia Names Your Band
New meme: here's a totally random way to make your new random band's new random album cover. Post one! Go to “Wikipedia.” Hit “random” and the first article you get is the name of your band. Then go to “Random Quotations” and the last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. Then, go to Flickr and click on “Explore the Last Seven Days” and the third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
This is my new band cover. Sounds like a punk rock band of some variety. You'll start seeing a stylized MDC showing up on stickers around town.
From: http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/wikipedia-names-your-band
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Corrections
Via ChartoftheDay.com:
The Dow marked it's record high of 14164 back in October 9, 2007. Yesterday's close was 7465, a drop of 47.3% from the high. This chart compares the current, 499 calendar day old Dow correction to that of all other Dow corrections, 499 calendar days after their respective peak. The only correction that turned out worse from the peak was the one that began in 1929. Interesting times we live in.
Hat tip to The Big Picture.
Ban Buttars
Another day, another embarrassment for Utah. This time from Buttars, the legislator who, in any other state would have been thrown out. After the common ground initiative was brought to council, it died a quick and swift death. Buttars, recently interviewed, compared gays to radical Muslims and claimed he’s “killed” every gay rights bill in the Utah legislature in the last eight years. What I don’t understand is why people endure him and continue to reelect him. I suspect its because all the people who can’t stand him have left his district, and only those who tolerate him remain there.
Now, today, there are renewed calls for his resignation. Like most Utah legislators, there is no chance that those who use racial slurs or are vitrol filled homophobes will even have to worry about being punished or threatened. Buttars is safe and sound in his hate, which irritates me. Another reason to leave Utah.
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