Here is a quote and a link to the Miami Herald’s coverage of the brawl at the UM / FIU game on October 14, 2006. What transpired was completely unacceptable. People in my section were close to being trampled as a fan fight broke out. I have posted video of the whole event. Video:...
Archive for October, 2006
Video: Fight at UM / FIU Game Last Night (Saturday, Oct. 14 2006)
I was at the game in the crowd and was surprised when the huge fight broke out on the field. It began as a small fight near one of the endzones. I turned away for a second and then the field was full of players from both teams duking it out. I then pulled...
YouTube: Change a Windows XP password using the command prompt without entering the old password
Bravo Microsoft! The video embeded below shows how to change the password of the current user account that you are logged in under without entering the previous password. This kind of thing should not work. I will have to test to see if Vista is susceptible to this “hack”. The operating system should always...
JohnChow.com: The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores
JohnChow.com: The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores: The following is a list of the Internet’s eight biggest Google AdSense publishers. The information was compiled from interviews and articles found on the Internet. Whenever possible, I list the source of the information. All I can say is “WOW.” It takes a lot of pageviews to earn...
Daily Show, John Stewart on Foley and FOX
Here is John Stewart’s reaction to FOX News’ “mistake” labeling Foley as a Democrat.
FOX News Labels Foley a Democrat
There are many versions of this video on Youtube. I linked to the one that has the full version of the story. Look at the graphic under the image of Mark Foley and you will see that he is labeled D-FL. Mark Foley is not a Democrat. As far as I am aware at...
MiamiHerald.com | 09/18/2006 | Securing sensitive data
MiamiHerald.com | 09/18/2006 | Securing sensitive data Recently, The Miami Herald brought to light the threat of identity theft facing Floridians because of the prevalence and accessibility of personal information online Public records easy targets for ID thieves, Aug. 27. This follows the announcement by the Transportation Department that two computers containing sensitive data...
Liberal, Conservative — Who cares? Let us try to follow common sense
Note to the American people, the words liberal and conservative are useless. These words are thrown around instead of intelligently debating the issues at hand. We need to express exactly what actions a government official has taken that we feel are clearly wrong, or what a news personality said that we feel distorts the...
Worldwind is like Google Earth, but better?
NASA’s World Wind software is definitely as good as, if not better than, Google Earth. World Wind’s largest downside is that it only runs on Windows.
BusinessWeek: If They Can’t See, They Can’t Steal
BusinessWeek recently reported on the growing trend of using fog machines to deter criminals. Stores fill up with fog when the alarm is triggered making it much more difficult for the criminal to steal anything. I read this in the magazine and only found one reference to it online from which I have quoted...