Shanktified!

These look great as part of my Ubuntu desktop.

Good to know… or not.

Cnet’s list of 10 highest-radiation cell phones

A New Jersey [of course, New Jersey] man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.  Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed… More at Reuters

My guess.  The bugs survived.

Copyblogger has a great post on How to Be Interesting with some (21 so far) great, so-so and not so great ways to be interesting.  Warning: Don’t try them all at once or you come off looking psycotic(er).

Brett Farve a Viking? I don’t see that happening.. but I.. WOULD.. LOVE IT!!!

ESPN - Vikings refuse to address Packers’ claims of Favre tampering.

Brilliant Button Maker by LucaZappa.com

This is a great little tool if you need a 80×15 button for your site.  I wish I had seen this before I just hand made a ton for OptimusMedia.

Whoa.. and I though my passwords were tough

Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords

Will keepass handle passwords that long? hahahaha.

I have a ton passwords.  I like strong and unique passwords for every site.

I love the password safe - Keepass.  It’s great and runs from a jump drive so I always have my passwords with me.  When I went to Linux, I was still able to use my keepass data thanks to a great fork KeePassX.

But I lost my auto-type feature - which i became dependent on. And closing the application always really closed it instead of sending it to my task bar like the windows version.  Well worry no more! The latest update has fixed all that and I’m fly through sites with random and difficult passwords like:

16AIC|dT4H0R:rKm}^2}!n,!f

Gotta love it!

Linux and Mac: KeepassX: keepassx.org

Windows version is available here: keepass.info

I’ve been beta testing the new Ubuntu Hardy - and it’s now working awesome!  With the exception of a bug with Adobe/Macromedia Fireworks.

However, I still find that a couple programs are keeping me locked into windows a little longer than I would like.

Dreamweaver (yes, I can and do code by hand, but I can work faster in Dreamweaver).  You can stick Fireworks in this paragraph, because while I like The gimp, for me, it’s not as easy as Fireworks - which I’ve grown to love over the years.

Then there’s quickbooks. Whom I have warned over the phone that this month will be my last upgrade unless they get a working linux model.  That gives them a couple years to work on it.  No, I’m not some huge company with 1000 of licences but I am a sign of things to come. Vista pushed many of us to Mac and Linux.  And as Ubuntu gets better and easier and “just works” more and more, you can expect that to become the norm.

Take heed my good friends at Adobe and Intuit. I’m willing to pay for software that works well.  And I’m willing to wait with you a little longer.  But time is running up.  I’m already playing with GNUcash and getting better with The Gimp everyday.

It’s great when you can Google something and find the fix (here) in less than 30 sec.

This is a bug that WP should be fixing very soon.  But good to know if you upload things with wordpress or if you are getting an error when you are uploading in Wordpress.

Oh and a side note: I like the layout of Wordpress 2.5.  Great job guys!