So I guess I not the only one unwilling to 'lego' my childhood:

A pocket size camera The Enigma that takes up to 1.3 mega-pixel pics. with 8MB internal memory with a 1.1 screen for preview.. and its only 49.99 VERY COOL! - and with a five eyar warrently I see a good (take it to the bar) camera... and the Enigma is available from ThinkGeek Electronics a great place of geek shopping!

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Patricia smiles as our dog rips into the arm of a dear friend...

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Brent & Bosco Kiss and make up... ok, stop molesting my dog...

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Uncle Buck, watching over us all... (Yes this is a hand painted picture that hangs in my office... and I wont tell you how much I paid for it.... no excuses)

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So for everyone that has a Sony Ericsson mobile phone (like the ubiquitous T610) I stumbled across a cool program that allows you to remote control your P.C. via the phone, so long as you have some sort of Bluetooth adaptor on the P.C. The software is Jeyo Remote. So far I've only tested it with PowerPoint but it seems to do the job extremely well and the full version is only $15.

You'd think with how hot it is they'd know better than to light fires.

The team takes to the desert.

Hey John - We all hope you having fun in Algeria! - Be safe, do good, and come home!

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ANd thanks to Everyone for giving me  a Happy Birthday!

Where are we going... to celebrate Treys 35th B-Day!

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One Great Dog...

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I figure it's about time I introduced the world, or at least the very small percentage of it that will ever read this, to the B*****d Operator from H*ll, (or BOFH for short). This long running series of short written sketches give some very funny examples of what life could be like in the I.T. department, if only.

A big sigh of relief for all of those who work for a multi-national company who is so intent on security at the expense of reality,...

This is one cool gadget from ThinkGeek Electronics that can really help out,, it automatically locks you PC when ever you walk more than 2 meters away... This is even more easy that the bio-metric validation toy I have for my home PC! I WANT ONE! - Look out Bill, I'm will soon be the Gadget Champ!

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Now that is a cool tshirt... and true... very very true.

available at ThinkGeek T-Shirts



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A cool gadget called ColdHeat,.. Coldheat allows you so solder something together really quick, and is very safe... it reaches 500ºF in less than 1 second , and then the tip cools to touch-safe temperature within 1-5 seconds.. now that's cool, and aptly named... coldheat!
Its available from What's New at ThinkGeek!



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Well I have heard it said that size doesn't matter, but that's obviously not the case as far as the folks a LaCie are concerned when they are talking about their disk drives. Their latest move into the bigger is better department is an external drive, with 1.6Tb (yes 1.6 terabytes) of storage. Now all I have to do is figure out what I could store that would come anywhere near filling this monster. Cause as it is RAID 0 (stripped) you'd probably want two so that you could keep a backup.

So you thought that some of your co-workers got a bit uptight when you 'borrowed' their coffee cup:





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If I was in the UK I would be 913.105497 fortnights!

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What happened 306 803.447 hours ago this Thursday at 3:45 AM?

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I will soon be 18, 408 ,206.8 minutes since birth...

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For once I'm speechless

Okay so we all know of someone who'd just love a segway (don't we Trey?) but have you ever given any thought to what happens when it rains, a not too uncommon occurrence in Houston this year. Well it just so happens I might have the answer.



Freudian spell checker error segway = sewage?

Just for fun:

Go to Google and use the translation engine to translater a phrase from one language to another... (a couple of times)

English: Welcome to my BLOG! I hope you have a great stay. All of us at Fork-n-life appreciate your visit! Have a great day!

French: Bienvenue à mon BLOG! J'espère que vous avez un grand séjour. Tous les nous à la Fourchette-n-vie apprécient votre visite! Ayez un jour splendide!

English: Welcome with my BLOG! I hope that you have a great stay. All us with the Fork-N-life appreciate your visit! Have one day splendid!

Italian: Benvenuto con il mio BLOG! Spero che abbiate un soggiorno grande. Tutti noi con la Forcella-N-vita apprezzano la vostra chiamata! Abbia splendido un giorno!

English: Welcome with my BLOG! I hope that you have a large stay. All we with the Staple-N-life appreciate your call! It has splendid a day!

German: Willkommen mit meinem BLOG! Ich hoffe, daß Sie einen großen Aufenthalt haben. Alle schätzen wir mit dem Heften-N-Leben Ihren Anruf! Er hat herrlich ein Tag!

English: Welcomely with my BLOG! I hope that you have a large stay. All estimate we with the booklet n life your call! It has wonderful one day!

Spanish: ¡Welcomely con mi BLOG! Espero que usted tenga una estancia grande. ¡Todos nos estiman con la vida del librete n su llamada! ¡Tiene un día maravilloso!

And Finally English: Welcomely with my BLOG! I hope that you have a great stay. All they consider with the life of librete n its call to us! It has a wonderful day!

And you wonder why we dont have world peace!

Hey do you live in Houston, then be sure to check out Life in Houston .com!


Its a great little message board starting up about all things Houston.
It will have great places to drink in Houston,
Great Places to eat in Houston,
Great Things to do in Houston,
And fun things to see in Houston!

All posted by real people who have really been to these places and checked them out!

Who know you may even make some new friends!

If you get a chance, check it out!
Its http://www.lifeinhouston.com/forums/index.php
For all things Houston!

Hey Folks,...
Sorry if some of you were trying to get to the blog and could not get through (also sorry for the annoying popups).
They were both caused by the little posting scripts we had on the lower right of the blog allowing people to leave there comments... Apparently those dirty *&%$#%%* hijacked the blog and we sending popups like some overactive teen porn site.

So, in the time being, please post you comments on the comments sections and I will look for another 'comments' device..

HAPPY BLOG READING!

Okay, so I was wondering the other day how I ever got by without my USB key drive. Well this lead me to thinking that the only issue I have with it is that sometimes I run out of space, so may be it's time to upgrade to one with more capacity. So off to google I go to search for what's available and as usual I managed to get side tracked.

I did find what I was looking for, digi4me do a 512MB PQI intelligent stick which I think I'm going to order, though I am a bit worried about losing it, as it's so small.

So I mentioned getting side tracked, well did you know you can get a USB Swiss Army knife


or even an aquarium


but I think the one that really blew my mind was the USB noodle strainer

So I mentioned this at work and was met with somewhat disbelieve, see what do you think about titanium breast implants, well doesn't that just take the silicone?

Along similar if somewhat less intrusive lines it appears that it's now possible to have your finger nails decorated by printer.



and it's not just plain Jane stuff either, you can get some really nifty designs:





Anyway continuing with yesterdays iPod theme, how'd you like an iPod wedding cake.



Mind you, it is an iPod mini, so you'd better not have many guests.

A truley sad announcement. One of my favorite actors, and most fond impressions, Marlon Brando died 6:20 Wednesday night at an Los Angeles area hospital. Just two months after his 80'th birthday. He was a very private man, but will always be The Godfather to me.

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JohnB here, with my first post, and would you believe it I have my first problem. It appears that blogger doesn't like Mozilla, so I'm going to have to revert to Internet Explorer, boo hiss.

For those strange people who like looking at pictures I have a couple of albums online at yahoo. I'm the big guy with the (now graying)beard.

Thought for today if you'd spent a rather large sum of money on a nice new shiny IPod why would you want to hide it?





Mind you being as I used to have one of the yellow walkmen (walkman's?) I guess I shouldn't complain as it appears it's coming back into style :-)

So what else caught my eye today, hmmm I guess the home made flame thrower would be one thing, it does seem to work quite well.



Must remember to check I have fire insurance.

While we're taking about things of an offensive nature how would you like this pepper spray gun with a difference. What's the difference you ask, well if your attacker is pretty indifferent to pepper (think the bad guy in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory) then you can zap them with 200,000 volts.



On the techy front I've been playing with a neat program today called x1. Once installed on your P.C. it indexes all your mail, any attachments they have, your contacts and every file on all your disks. You can then search for that elusive file or message by name or content "as quick as you can type" or so they say, and I have to admit they're pretty much correct. Once you've found the file the system contains it's own internal viewer that displays over 250 different file formats so you can get a quick look before deciding if this is the file you want. So what's the down side, the nearly $100 price tag, though you do get 2 licenses for that. If nothing else it may be indicative of what is to come in Windows if Microsoft ever manage to get Longhorn out of the door.

A heck of a sight! An Alligator with a deer in its mouth at Cross Lake... If only we could train them to be like Labs.... There you go boy... Fetch!

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Close up of Alligator with a deer in its mouth at Cross Lake...

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