February 2009
10 posts
My email to US Bank support...
(I really did send this via their “contact us link” on the US Bank page)
To whom it may concern—
I appreciate you concern for account security, but I would like to point out two flaws in your current system: 1) You do not allow numbers or punctuation in my password. This inherently limits the strength of the passwords you allow 2) Your system of supplemental questions is...
Bug, Hack, and Kludge...
Kludge (nee kluge) is (I think) the third term of art in its class of word. The first, of course, is Bug (which predates the world of computers). The second would be Hack. With Kludge following close on its heals. There were a number of others that I had learned between Bug and Kludge: Bit, Byte, Word, Hex, Octal, MODEM (as we spelled it then), BASIC, ASCII, etc etc. People assumed I just...
Dear software companies...
Screencasts do not replace screenshots!
Pride And Preditor →
This seems to be a big year for Jane Austin mashups. We also have the book Pride And Predudice and Zombies. Which raises some interesting other options:
Emma with Superheros
Persuasion with Mutants
Sense and Sensibility and Fairies
Mansfield Park is full of serial killers
The options are endless
“There’s nothing said that is genius, only perspective that makes it so”
– Your’s truly, with appologies to the bard
Herorat.org →
Simply put this is one of the coolest efforts I have ever heard about. The Giant Pouched Rat is smart, has a long lifespan for a rat (about 8 years), and is apparently kinda tasty; but let us not dwell on that part.
Instead let us focus on their uses in detecting landmines and in scanning for tuberculosis, which is just chock full of awesome…
The truth is out there
We just never hear about the strategic Zombie reserve…
“What can I say? I am a master of the single entendre.”