Posts by D. H. McKee

UNIX – a four letter word

Getting a little tired of dealing with UNIX novices. Here’s an actual conversation I had with some guy the other...

Website woes

Working on the website tonight. Trying to get some pictures posted, but there’s a lot to do still. Got the...

Nervous…

New house closes in a week and a half. Can’t wait for it to be over. So many things to...

The Illegal Internet Page

Earlier, a federal court in Philadelphia had already ruled that the CDA was unconstitutional: quoth that court, “Just as the...

Why am I awake now?

I’m awake, working on a customer issue (one, I might add, that doesn’t need to be done now). The issue...

Nuclear material, whole buildings missing from Iraq

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Contaminated metal, equipment and even entire buildings in Iraq that had been monitored by UN nuclear inspectors have disappeared since the war, the UN's nuclear watchdog said.
Diplomats said the discovery, much of it from commercially available satellite pictures, raises concerns about whether the US occupation in Iraq has been able to effectively monitor sensitive Iraq sites.

Sunny Windy Rainy Warm Cold

Hey, how about that weather? Pretty strange, no? Supposed to be a high of 24, and after the rain, a...

Chromium Blue

Weird, trippy, erotic soap opera, co-starring Ian Abercrombie (Mr. Pitts from "Seinfeld"). This is a really weird show on Showcase which could only appeal to horny and stoned individuals who lost the remote while looking for some kind of sexual content on TV at 1am on Friday nights. Of course it suits my demographic.
"To fuel his passion for life while recovering from a near-fatal motorcycle accident Henry Brooke beseeches his bride-to-be, Vivian Vadim, to bring guests aboard the Chromium Blue and do whatever it takes to help them live out their deepest, most erotic fantasies. And then to tell him about it in excruciating, intoxicating detail."
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50 most averagest TV shows

As part of its 50th anniversary, TV Guide compiled two lists. One was the top 50 best shows of all time. The other was the top 50 worst shows of all time. The Van Gogh-Goghs noticed that left a lot of shows unaccounted for.
We are here to present to you the 50 most averagest shows of all time. These shows are not bad and they aren't good. They're of no real merit whatsoever.
Remember these shows? Of course you don't. No one does. These shows served one purpose in your life: passing time. You watched these shows because it was too hard to sleep, you didn't have the strength to hold a book, to generate noise, no one else was home, or beacuse they came on between two shows that were actually good.
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San Fran has most hotspots

The San Francisco Bay area is the nation's top market for wireless Internet hot spots, according to a new study sponsored by Intel Corp.
The region was followed by Orange County, Calif., Washington, D.C., and Austin, Texas. Last year's "most unwired" area, Portland, Ore., was bumped to No. 5 on the list compiled for the semiconductor giant by "Best Places" author Bert Sperling.
Intel, which has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in marketing its Centrino mobile chip sets, sees the growing popularity of Wi-Fi wireless Internet service as a big driver of microprocessors, particularly those used in laptop and handheld computers.
Wi-Fi is no longer limited to airports, coffee houses and home networks. Hot spots are springing up in tourist spots, truck stops, RV parks and shopping malls. Intel's survey did not say what percentage of the hot spots were paid versus free.