I think this is pretty cool.

Check out the image below.  Then use the link below to open up just the image in a new browser window.

Resize the image (make it smaller) to see the secret message.

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This is a pretty good list of freeware utilities for all kinds of applications:

http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/index.html

I have no idea why I have such a hard time remembering composed vs comprised.

• A car is composed of many parts
• The parts compose the car.
• A car comprises many parts

A friend of mine has been using Plesk to automate some hosting settings.

I was taking a look at it and thought they had a lot of cool looking icons.

Not that anyone would want to download icons from a website and use them… 🙂

Which is worse?

The fact that I spend so much time working at Borders, that when they hire a new barista I notice, or the fact that I spend so much time working at Borders that the new barista notices that I used to have a beard.

OMG TicketMaster Sucks!!!

I just went to buy some tickets for The Secret Machines, and the tickets were 15 bucks each. 

I picked the FREE delivery option, and my order came to $72.30.  WHAT???  3 tickts @ $15 << $72.30.

So for a 15 dollar ticket, they add on a “facility charge” of another buck, then there is the “Convenience Charge” WTF is that BS?  Tax is only 1.50 but then they throw on a “Order Processing Fee” charge of 4.80?? What the hell is the difference between their Order processing fee, and their Convenience charge?  This is totally gay.

In the end my “tickets” cost 60% more than the cost of the “tickets”!!

Ticketmaster really sucks ass.  I hate them with a passion.

And how come I keep signing up to be notified when some bands go on tour and they never email me, those ass hats.

I just got my first set of grades from University of Chicago.  I got an A in OO Architecture and Design Patterns, and a B in Software Construction.

I think I couldn’t have done any better than a B in Software Construction.  The work was very challenging, in a good way, but the time requirement was so great that week after week I wasn’t able to complete the weeks assignment, or if I was able to complete it, my code wasn’t as strong as it could have been.

I am taking this quater off to focus on work, and I am not sure if I will be taking anything in the summer as they usually do the really basic classes then.  We will see. 

I probably still need to take some kind of discrete math class, but I don’t want to pay the $3600 bucks to take it at UofC if I can take it elsewhere for less.

Bret Martin and Katie Kniss

Bret Martin and Katie Kniss are getting married

I am going to see if I can get a googlewhack on Bret Martin and Katie Kniss, linking to this page.  Technically a googlewhack is 2 words that are in the dictionary, but I am expanding on this to include names.

Putting their names in some H1 and H2 tags at the top here should help with the Googlebot.

Actually, Katie is probably getting the raw end of this deal, she is going to have to put up with Bret for years to come. 

Same goes for Kathleen.  Sometimes I wonder if knew what she was getting herself into.  :-). 

The wedding is this summer in St. Louis, and I hear they are spending their honeymoon in Peoria.  Well not just Peoria… East Peoria. 

Update: Well I got my home page number 1 on the major 3 search engines:
Google
Yahoo
MSN

But they are only indexing my homepage right now, not the actual article link (Bret Martin and Katie Kniss).

Here is a link to a tool that will go through a collection of blog entries and rename them.  Just what I was looking for.

http://www.vasanth.in/Software.aspx?=renamer

I just finished watching Over the Years and Through The Woods which I first blogged about here.

It was pretty cool!  If you like Queens of the Stone Age, then you should really get it.

The performances reminded me of the one thing that they do live that I don’t like, and that is take an adlib section too far.  It’s like, oh cool, normally this part only goes on 4 times but they are doing it more, ok, thats 12, 16, …  ok 24 times … ok… this is getting stupid, I lost track of the count, are they ever going to jump back into the song?

But the DVD is pretty cool.  There are some cool bonus footage of a bunch of the songs I really like with their old bass player that they don’t play live anymore, which sucks.  I think they were a lot better w/ him in 2003 than w/o.  But whatever.

I found this other CD by them that I might end up getting called The Desert Sessions. 

Cool stuff.