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Archive for July, 2007

Impressive Record

Posted by Jordan on July 31st, 2007

Last year my flight out of Gainesville for BH/Defcon was delayed, then delayed, then delayed, continuously delayed until I was not only going to miss my connecting flight, but they just told me to come home and fly out first thing the next morning.  This put me into town halfway through the first day of [...]

Everything under the sun

Posted by Jordan on July 21st, 2007

So you know youtube has everything, right? Everything you could possibly imagine has been recorded and is on youtube. Like, say, an entire Filipino jail re-enacting the famous Thriller music video from Michael Jackson? Complete with the ugliest “heroine” you’ve ever seen? Yup! Got it.

Coke Rewards

Posted by Jordan on July 17th, 2007

This year, Coke’s got a promotion going on called MyCokeRewards.  After we stocked up on a ton of coke products, after a sale and before some friends were coming over, I figured I’d start collecting the points and see what I could save up for.  At first, it’s depressing how many points you need to [...]

Cheap OS X Software

Posted by Jordan on July 11th, 2007

One common complaint leveraged against Macs is that everything costs money.  While that’s certainly not true and there are a ton of good GPL or otherwise free programs for Macs, in general, I do find that there’s a lot more pay-software that does something I want than in the linux or windows world where freebies [...]

TSA effectiveness

Posted by Jordan on July 5th, 2007

Not only is it security theater, but the acting is bad!