Grocery chain Supervalu Inc. earlier this year was conned into depositing more than $10 million into two fraudulent bank accounts before it discovered the ruse.
Its idiots people like that who keep the spammers in business.
Engadget has a post up comparing the featuresof Vista and Leopard, and you would think its Word War 3 by the comments. 
(Ohh, by the way, there is exactly 666 comments over there now as I’m writing this post.) Its funny how people get all fired up about which OS is the best. I’ve worked with enough Operating Systems in my shory life to know they all have big flaws.
However, Vista is still the best. 
Update: And don’t even get me started on this. That’s a huge reason why I don’t more appreciation for Apple than I do. They are so arrogant.
I was at the local Home Depot today, and I noticed that the soda machine outside now has a credit card swipe device on it. Just my luck, I was wishing for a cold drink, although I had no cash on me. I whipped out the credit card, swiped it, and bingo, I had my cold drink. Ahhh… modern conveniences. 
I used to think that Microsoft’s search engine, live.com would index my posts quicker than Google would. Now check this screenshot out.
Notice that Google says how long ago the website was updated. Sweet. Now I’m not sure which search engine is quicker. I wonder if there would be a easy way to accurately test how fast a search engine indexes a new post.
Apache loses 2.8% share this month, partly through the strong growth at the major blogging systems, and partly due to 2.5 million domains on Apache expiring at trouble-free.net. Apache has around a 10% market share advantage over IIS now, which is the smallest gap between the two since IIS was launched in 1996.
For the last couple of months Microsoft has been steadily gaining market share in the number of websites hosted. It will be interesting to see if and when Microsoft will gain the dominant position.
Via the Washington Post:
It used to be all but impossible to walk down a city street in the Washington area without hearing the “chirp.” The distinct beeping noise made by Sprint Nextel’s walkie-talkie-like service, called Direct Connect, was so commonplace that it almost seemed a part of the aural landscape. These days, the chirp stands out because it has become so infrequent. More people have been abandoning the service over the past year, following Nextel’s merger with Sprint. The company has lost more than 700,000 monthly subscribers this year, and the carrier warned last week that it expects to lose 370,000 more this fiscal quarter. The vast majority of departed subscribers are former Nextel customers.
“The chirp is not extinct,” he said. “It has, perhaps, become less deafening.”
The article goes on…. and echoes what I’ve written before.
I just noticed this post on the Official Gmail Blog:
By the way, businesses, schools and organizations using Google Apps to get Gmail on their own custom addresses (like Google does for our @google.com accounts) will get a storage boost in the coming days, too. Standard and Education Edition storage (now at 2GB) will begin matching Gmail’s counter, and Premier Edition users get a whopping 25 GB (up from 10 GB).
So I logged into my Premier Google Apps account, and this is what I saw.
You are currently using 662 MB (2%) of your 25600 MB.
WOW!!
I’m so frustrated right now with this old, old problem of installing Windows XP on a RAID hard drive system. The only way to add the drivers is by using a floppy disk. That brings up several questions.
Ahh.. Here we go, I found a used floppy drive in one of my old computers, but now for a disk. Ahh.. found that too. First disk doesn’t work, second one doesn’t either. Is it the drive or the floppies? Try the third disk.. sweet, that one works. Start Win XP setup, hit F6, insert floppy disk. ERROR!! grrrrr…. still no go. Ok, lets try with a new disk. Attempting to write files. Error :
Windows Error N. 5
Access is denied.
I agree with Iain Magee :
So - all told - a 5 minute job took probably the most of an hour. Why Microsoft? Why can’t we have setup read the file from a CD or USB key? This was a problem 5 years ago - and I just can’t believe that 5 years on it’s still a problem.
This new glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength. Way cool.
