American Airlines adds fees for all checked bags – Travel News – Orbitz Travel Blog These people suck. Now I won’t be able to bring anything on board because everybody is going to bring their huge freaking bags. Idiots. Just raise airfares.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Using a Lot of Disk Space to Scale | High Scalability Sometimes you need to think about things “irrationally” in order to get a solution to a problem.
blog.richardmcdougall.com » FileBench has a twin… I am going to start benchmarking my environments proactively. This looks promising. The Old New Thing : The Big Red Switch really was big and red “We were all in awe that he got to push the big red button for a legitimate reason. An opportunity like that comes only once in a lifetime.” I’ve had my lifetime opportunity to push an EPO button… somewhat anticlimactic it was. vmprofessional – Comparison of VI3 Backup Tools Good comparison for folks just getting into consolidated backups. Cool Tool: Mistake-Proofing “In reality, mistake-proofing is more like a structured form of common sense.” Sounds like something I should read. (tags: books) 12 Signs That The Recession Has Hit …
The 25 Year Old BSD Bug This is funny. All bugs may be shallow, but it still takes someone to see the bug. veenema.net – HOW TO Create your own bootable ESX 3i usb stick Was going to have to figure this out on Tuesday, so this is timely and useful. Sweet.
Robert Reich’s Blog: Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Listen to Economists Yeah, why listen to people who know things? The day the music died [dive into mark] DRM is bad. Long ago I stopped purchasing things from the iTunes Store because of their DRM and its incompatibility with non-iTunes software. Physical Limits: Extreme Skydiver to Plummet 25 Miles to Earth This should be interesting… College Waterpipe Smoking a Growing Public Health Problem | Science Blog “In a hookah, tobacco is heated by charcoal…” I hate to tell them this but tobacco isn’t usually what is smoked by college kids with a hookah. Just sayin’, that’s all.
Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor – (37signals) Amen.
Detecting Multi-Core Processor Topology in an IA-32 Platform Yay! Sample code! Chad Vader provides the voice of Darth Vader on tonight’s “Deal or No Deal” | Dane101 If you haven’t seen the Chad Vader clips go to YouTube and check them out. They’re filmed around Madison. Extra congrats to Matt Sloan, who does an excellent Darth Vader impersonation. Trapped in an Elevator: Online Only Video: The New Yorker “This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten writes about the lives of elevators, and tells the story of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours.” Awesome video. Trapped in an Elevator…With Diarrhea Video Parody of the “Trapped in an Elevator” video, funny …
Interviewing Six Conservative Women On Dating – Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views) LOL, going to a dump to shoot rats is pretty good. That and Kit Lange’s story about the guy and the coffee shop. Wanting a quickie after being an hour late and penniless? After an hour I’d be too embarrassed to show up. They do make great stories, though. Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder | Threat Level from Wired.com Guess I should steer clear of those filesystem guys… 🙂 Just kidding. And mail order brides. Not kidding so much there. Glad this is over so we can get on with our lives.
Tidal bore – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Heh, something I never knew. In places like the Turnagain arm of the Cook Inlet the tide is impeded by mud, so when it finally breaks through it forms a big wave rushing in. That’s pretty cool, especially since people surf it sometimes. Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked – Security Fix People, you *have* to patch in a regular and timely fashion. Courteous to Whom? – Dr. Bob’s Snake Oil Good points about doing “favors” for people. When you do a favor for someone, especially on the road, you’re often inconveniencing someone else. Would you use Apple server SW if you could run it as a VM? – Inside IT …
McCain Defends Campaign E-Mail Linking Obama To Hamas McCain’s statements here indicate to me that he is 100% willing to keep the U.S. in wars abroad. Hopefully Obama can, in turn, link McCain to the $4/gallon oil situation. I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Apple to the Core | PBS Interesting take on the PA Semiconductor purchase by Apple. My question: since Apple has demonstrated that its developers will go wherever they go what difference does this make? My second question: why would Intel be scared, with Apple’s market share? The crazy baseball fan rule (Scripting News) “But why should we tolerate the news organizations giving free air time to the campaigns? Aren’t they making an illegal campaign contribution when …