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I found this one kind of interesting, since I live in the area. Nasa’s Earth Observatory just had an article, with images, showing an abnormal about of vegetation all the way from west New Mexico to central Texas – with the largest concentration in western Texas. The major cause for this abnormality is [...]

Signal handling in Perl is one of the latest in many things I have had to learn recently. When I started looking for information on this, I of course began by googling for it first, and then resorting the Other Bible before going down some path. However in this case I found many [...]

With these steps you should be able to create your own fortune files, which can be used with the Fortune Widget I created for Wordpress. This does get a little tricky for Windows users, as the applications needed to create these files are not as readily available as in Linux, but hopefully it shouldn’t [...]

From Slashdot:
“BD+, unlike AACS, which suffered a partial hack last year, won’t likely be breached for 10 years.” Richard Doherty, a media analyst with Envisioneering Group in HMM.
For those of you who don’t know to much about this, BD+ and AACS are the DRM mechanisms for BlueRay and HDDVD. The funny part about this [...]

“… They had over one hundred rock stars perform, and give messages on how to save the planet. Of course there’s one way to save the planet: Do not live like a rock star. Ok… Probably the number one way to save the planet…” Jay Leno – Tonight Show, July 9th [...]

We’ll, we’re back home from a trip to San Antonio, which was wonderful. Thursday we had some of the really bad rain that everyone heard about on the news, which put a short delay on us going to Sea World. That was quickly remedied by hanging out at the Rivercenter that day and [...]