A Peculiar Blog

There aren’t enough computers in our house. Granted, we’ve been blessed enough to have three desktop machines on a home LAN with enough bandwidth for all of them to be online at the same time, there is still a shortage however.

I’ve been noticing an increase in the amount of comment spam in recent weeks. Usually the Akismet and Bad behavior plugins do most of the work of keeping the crap out of the comments but there’s been a higher than normal level of sewage backing up in the comment queue and, to continue the analogy, I’ve had to do something of a power flush and turn the bathroom faucets full open to hose out the crap left in some comments.

The mortgage industry took a big hit not too long ago when a major lender ended up having to be sold off at bargain basement prices along with a huge load of government bailout money to go along with it. Now with more major financial institutions looking at serious trouble, there’s talk going on about he shot of another government bailout to keep the economy from suffering any more than it already has.

He spoke recently at the National Governors Association’s semiannual meeting and talked about a growing polarization in America. He made this 44 minute speech, citing statistics about voting habits and such, painting the picture that apparently people in this country are physically segregating themselves into groups that all tend to vote the same.

I just saw this article on Time about something that’s got to be one of the flat out dumbest things I’ve heard about in quite a while. The practice of sending text messages while driving.

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!According to an article on PC Pro, media giant Rupert Murdoch was provoked into an “angry outburst” over the fact that somehow, Facebook has managed to overtake MySpace.
Thing is, I’ve got accounts on both sites and I have to say [...]

I recently wrote about a Ransomware attack called GPcode that encrypts files on the victim’s computer and then offers to sell them a decryption key to get them back.
According to Kaspersky Labs, When GPcode does it’s thing, it first creates a copy of the file it’s going to encrypt. Once that encryption is done, [...]

I just saw an article about HP’s newest toy… would you believe .. a *BILLION* color display? Well, that’s what they’ve come up with. Not only that, but it’s a LCD technology to boot. What I can’t help wondering is just how much ram do you need to work with a billion [...]

poolfloatsmart.com is one of those sites that, especially in the hot weather we’ve had locally in recent days, almost cools you off a touch just looking at it. It’s images of inviting pools and people relaxing in pool floats is a hard one to pass up when it’s 90 degrees in the shade like [...]

What do you do when you’re toiling away at the project of the moment and all of a sudden your monitor goes dark? There’s no clicking sounds, not a whiff of smoke or a flicker of the lights. The computer itself continues merrily along, waiting for your next input or instruction. Checking [...]