wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: September, 2005

Netsky, I hate thee

For some reason, I’ve had ten or twelve instances of this annoying variant of the Netsky worm in my inbox, starting yesterday evening. Norton AntiVirus has been swatting them like flies, but they still make me nervous. Am I alone in this? Are any of you out there who have your own domains also getting [...]

Bill Maher: Recall the President

Bill Maher gets on my nerves, even when I agree with him (which is fairly often). But this commentary came to me via email. I tracked down the web source to share it with you, but it’s funny and because there’s a lot of truth in humor.

Flash Fun with Napoleon Dynamite

The Napoleon Dynamite Talker will amuse you for seconds, minutes perhaps! (Warning: sound, flash-based.) I found this while searching to find the origin of the phrase “the internets” (ditto).

Portable OpenOffice.org

A cool idea: OpenOffice + USB key drive = Portable OpenOffice. The same guy has done the same trick for Firefox, Thunderbird, and some others. These are Windows-only solutions, I think. Sorry to you Mac and Linux folks.

Avast ye, matey

It’s talk like a pirate day again. Perhaps you’d like to read wheatdesign.com translated into pirate speak? Thanks to Alex King, whose post reminded me about this fun nonsense.