Author: Adam (Page 144 of 224)

Trillian keeps getting blocked out by AOL, over and over, to the point where they are releasing a new patch about once a day. I guess for me, AOL’s tactics have worked – the cool interface isn’t worth installing a new patch almost daily. Plus, when I try to sign on using Trillian and it doesn’t work (again), AOL then blocks me from signing on to the “real” AIM for about a half hour.

AOL, you evil empire – you broke my spirit.

So if a friend sends you one of those e-mail forwarding hoaxes – “send this e-mail to 10 friends and win a prize!” – should you tell them it’s a hoax, or just ignore it?

Brotherhood of the Wolf
Just your average 18th-century French martial-arts armored-werewolf secret-society incest costume action horror epic.

Thought of this quote today, and while I’ve posted it before, I thought it was worth revisiting:

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my job, it’s that nothing is certain. Nothing that seems very bad, and nothing that seems very good. Nothing is certain. Nothing.”
-Dr. Susan Lewis, ‘ER’

I have long been a fan of the Google toolbar for IE, which allows you to enter a search term right in the toolbar, without going to Google first.

Well now there’s Nutshell, which is the same idea, but you can choose to search in Google, IMDB, Amazon, Dictionary.com or Daypop. Cool.

(Bonus geek points if you know which current computer program, eclipsed by its Microsoft rival, was called “Nutshell” when it was first released in 1983.)

The newest Air Jordans disturb me on so many levels, it’s hard to keep them all separate.

But just off the top of my head, is anyone else a little disturbed by the idea of Spike Lee helping to advertise $200 sneakers to kids?

I was watching a little of “Gone With the Wind” on TNT and I started thinking, wouldn’t it be great to see blooper reels of classic movies? With DVD they tend to save every foot of film, in case it can be repackaged later on an expanded DVD. Mostly this stuff is trash, but every once in a while there is some funny and/or interesting stuff.

So I was thinking how entertaining it would be to see classic film stars flubbing their lines, etc.

“As God is my witness, I’ll never…………LINE?”

Does AOL have the right to block the multiple-chat client Trillian? I guess they do. It’s their system, and Trillian is just “pretending” to be an AIM client in order to hop on the network.

I was using Trillian for a while, mostly because I liked its interface better than the circa-Windows95 look of AIM. I don’t care about the multiple-client thing (you can also use Trillian for ICQ, Yahoo, etc.). I guess it just irritates me that AOL is blocking a potential souce for new users for their network because they can’t slap some more irritating ads in our faces.

Yeah, I live a hard life. 🙂

An interesting new online pastime is “Googlewhacking,” where you try to come up with two common words which, when entered into Google, come up with just one search result in all the millions and millions of web pages Google indexes.

Getting no results is much easier – just pick two incredibly obscure words. And word combinations with two results are more common than you would think. You need to get that elusive “Results 1-1 of 1.” Try it.

For a word person like me this is irresistible. I actually came up with two – but one is disallowed because it uses what is considered a Spanish word, even though you hear it in the U.S. all the time.

What are the whacks I came up with? Well, I can’t say. Because after all, if I printed them here, pretty soon there would be two results on Google, wouldn’t there?