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Google releases Search Appliance

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Computer Hardware, Internet | Posted on 21-02-2002

Do you wish all of the documents on your network were searchable? According to Google, their new search appliance will solve this and other problems. Read more for details…

Good bye Life Savers

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Funny Stuff | Posted on 21-02-2002

As most geeks I surround myself with Mountain Dew, chips, and other junk food while I am working for long hours at the computer (which is usually everyday). Part of my junk food includes sugar which I usually get from something I am sure all of us have had from time to time, Life Savers. As of this morning though, I am saying farewell to one of my favorite candies. Why? Well…

First Super Bowl Commercial results in

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in General | Posted on 04-02-2002

It is the end of the first quarter of Super Bowl 36 and I already see a really really really stupid move on a company’s part called mlife.com (don’t worry clicking on it right now becasue their site is down). First off they don’t tell anyone who or what their company does, they just say go to our web site. Well I did and I can’t get there. Maybe you should have thought about 1 million people hitting your web site at the same time. Evidently whoever is running their advertising and marketing didn’t attend all of their classes because even pulling up the Google Cache of their site I still don’t know what they do.

Funniest commercial(s) so far go to Budweiser. The battle bot commercial is by far the funniest and the most touching is the one where the Clydesdale horses pay their respects to the World Trade Center in NY. More later.

ps – mlife.com is running Solaris with Netscape-Enterprise if you are curious
Update – I just found some stuff on mlife.com, read on…

Your Mom is so ….

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Funny Stuff, Programming | Posted on 03-02-2002

Do you remember all of the jokes you and your friends used when you were growing up about “Your Mom is so…”. Well, it turns out there is a YourMom.Com site which specializes in a mom jokes. Here are a couple of the ones I found amusing. Be sure to check out the geek section.

  • Your Mom’s so ugly when she joined an ugly contest, they said “Sorry, no professionals.
  • The long double numeric variable type in C++ is insufficient to express the weight of Your Mom.
  • Your Mom is so stupid, she uploads executables in ASCII mode.
  • Your Mom is so fat that she overloads her own free functions.

Review of the Tivo

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Computer Hardware, Internet, Man Toys | Posted on 09-01-2002

I was fortunate enough this Christmas season to be given an extremely cool geek gift, a Tivo. I figured I would play with it for a week or so before posting something to the site about it. If you have no idea what a ‘Tivo’ is, then read on, hopefully I will do a fair job in explaining how this electronic device will change the way you watch TV.