http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html

My computer isn't your advertising machine. Don't make it one, or I'll stop using your product.

I got my license. And I have insurance ( Read more... )

He traded one red paperclip for a house (well, ok, there were some intermediate trades too, but he started out with the paperclip):
http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

So, in a lot of ways this summer I've been turning over a new leaf. Not in great, huge changes to myself, just in fixing a few bad habits and getting stuff done. I did the big changes back in school (or really, just finding myself again ( Read more... )

*dances*

Got a letter from housing today, and it says I'm still in Sackett, so happy days :)

I figured I probably would be, but it's nice to have it confirmed and such.

Driver's test August 14, 10 AM ( Read more... )

It's absolutely disgusting how much space useless shit can take up on a computer... I cleared up 6 GB of space by getting rid of temp files and most of my restore points. That's over one fifth of my 28 GB hard drive. (yes, I know, it's small, it's in a two year old not even close to high tech laptop.) I mean, dayum, that's enough for me to put two ( Read more... )

Saturday was Scott's and Halley's combined birthday party dealie, which pretty much consisted of what we all usually do, hanging out and having a good time and such. We were all pretty much talking about geek stuff (gaming, magic, etc.) until Halley and Nick showed up, at which point we shifted to less geeky topics. (for the time being.) Eventually ( Read more... )

More stuff in my life... well, went to see the fireworks with Beth last night. Tried to invite some other people, but no one seemed to be interested, or had other plans, and the like, and we couldn't find her friends once we got there, so we just found a spot since they'd already started while we were walking over. They were awesome though ( Read more... )

So yeah, either the people in this video were put up to it beforehand, or people really need to learn to figure out what they're signing before they sign it: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/suffrage.htmlRead more... )