Yahoo Mail, available in 15 languages in almost two dozen countries around the world, gives users 2 gigabytes of storage for $20 a year. Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) offers 250 megabytes of storage to users of its free MSN Hotmail accounts. Like Yahoo, it offers 2 gigabytes of storage for an annual fee of $20. Now [...]
Read more →Plagairists in university is an interesting story. I can’t understand how someone would think to solicit an essay written by a stranger with no idea about how good their work could possibly be. I can definitely understand agreeing to write the paper and doing a really half-assed job of it, and I think I might [...]
Read more →I’m sure it comes as no surprise to people that the tech sector isn’t that big; odds are you work with someone now that someone you used to work with ALSO worked with previously. Even knowing this, it’s surprising to overhear people talking about something or someone that you didn’t think that they had heard [...]
Read more →I was watching Iron Chef“The American Years” or whatever it is that they named the American spin off, and found one bit particularly funny. The challenger was asked what he was going to use this sauce that contained honey and miso; “So, Chef, what are you going to use this Honey Miso Sauce for?” The [...]
Read more →I was looking at my stats over on MyBlogLog.com to see where everyone goes to when they’re finished here, and the results are pretty sad. I’ve linked to the actual posts here (where I could identify them) around the number in the left column for ease of use. Rank Link Name Link Clicks 1 Olsen [...]
Read more →The Kung Fu Monkey has a preview of an exclusive scratch and sniff cover of the upcoming Zombie Tales comic. The cover is branded for chud.com. My favorite comics as a kid were the ones featuring zombies, witches, vampires, etc; I, Vampire, Strange Tales, heck, anything with “weird” or “strange” was fair game… It’s a [...]
Read more →Well, it’s setup now, and there’s only the one link so far to the Jello Biafra interview, but subscribe now — the shows will be added as we add them to the site; Available at http://audio.nardwuar.com/nardblog/. I’m going to see if I can’t convince Nardwaur to interview Adam Curry; Much Music veteran interviewing MTV alumnus; [...]
Read more →I was doing some site maintenance, replacing a bunch of dated graphics, re-doing a number of really old pages, and trying to clean things up a little bit for Nardwuar. I was trying to get some new stuff added to the site before we send out the next newsletter, and instead ended up making Nardwuar’s [...]
Read more →I’ve said in the past years that the biggest reason for the scarcity of viruses on the Macintosh has been a direct result of flying beneath the radar; owning 5% of the market doesn’t attract much attention from application developers or virus developers. Firefox and its fans have been pretty cocky about their browser not [...]
Read more →Well it appears that I finally have nuvexport working correctly. Initially I was thrilled to see a script that interfaces with the MythTV database, lets you interactively choose a show from a list, and a format for the output file; then I saw the encode process stick at 3 frames converted. It stayed on this [...]
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