More Blonde Jokes…

A blonde and a brunete were watching the 6 o’clock news. It was about a boy who was about to jump off a building. The brunette bet the blonde $50 that the boy would jump. The blonde agreed, raising the bet to $100. Patiently, they waited the outcome. It turned out that the unfortunate boy [...]

WOMC: Word of Mouth Connection Scam…

I keep getting these stupid scam/spam emails that say:
Someone has just begun to research your background via our website. This email has been automatically sent to you so as to make you aware that your background is being looked into. The popularity of our website is currently growing at a very rapid rate. If another [...]

Grass, Wizardry, and the US Army…

There’s been a trend in my life lately that is equally good and bad.
I’m not spending as much of my free time updating my websites. That’s the bad. The good is that I haven’t been spending as much of my free time updating my websites because I’ve been keeping myself extremely busy with things that [...]

A Harry Potter Virgin…

I recently started reading the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
It wasn’t until I was just about finished with the first chapter that I realized that I was one of probably only a dozen people in the world that hadn’t read the first Harry Potter book. (I’m also one of only a likely handful that [...]

Mexico and the Golden State…

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the action that ended the war between the United States and Mexico, was signed on February 2, 1848.
Not only did it give the still fledgling United States a new border that extended to the Pacific Ocean and granted 525,000 square miles of territory that included present-day Arizona, California, western Colorado, [...]

Microsoft and the Binary System…

I’m republishing this piece of spam just because I think it so funny:
In what CEO Bill Gates called “an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors,” the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft’s rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products [...]

Rank and File…

I picked a random set of websites to check the Google Toolbar’s ranking of popularity. Essentially, the ranking is a number from 1 to 10 that Google assigns to any particular website. Most are zero, because most websites are lame, unpopular, and worthless.
I’m curious as to how my sites rank compared to major websites.
Here’s a [...]