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June 15, 2001

Doh! is now a word according to Oxford

Doh! this is no joke, the following is quoted from the Oxford English Dictionary

doh, int. colloq. — “Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish. Also (usu. mildly derog.): implying that another person has said or done something foolish (cf. DUH int.).”

“1952 A. BUCKERIDGE Jennings & Darbishire ixii. 183 Doh! An anguished gasp of exasperation rang out loud and clear as Mr Wilkins found his voice again. 1989 Beano 11 Feb. 23 (caption) [Speaker is a man who is knocked against a bus stop.] Doh! 1991 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 15 Nov. (Friday) H, The movie had one good point: It wasn’t the worst movie I’ve ever seen. It was the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Doh! 1993 HP Professional (Nexis) July 28 Along their long path ISO sort of missed local area networks and network management, which gave the market over to TCP/IP and related technologies. As Homer Simpson would say: Doh! 1996 A. FEIN et al. Simpsons Comics strike Back! 14/2 Look out, you dern fool! You’re gonna cut off your… D’oh!!! 1998 N. JONES Hollyoaks (Mersey TV transmission script) Episode 256 44 Cindy: What are we doing here, anyway? Paul: Doh! Use your head, eh?”

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June 14, 2001

Best Exercise That’s Also Fun: Mountain Biking

ha! as if we didn’t know … so, who’s up for a ride?

from Men’s Health: “Mountain biking uses tons of energy and tons of muscles and takes a ton of balls, and you aren’t even aware of what it’s doing for your body. A 180-pound guy mountain-biking for an hour will burn almost 700 calories. Bring the mountain to you: Mountain biking has a fitness payoff even when you have no mountain handy. Hit the flat road. Riding a mountain bike takes about a third more effort than riding a road bike, largely because of the increased rolling resistance from the fatter tires and the increased weight of the bike. So if your time is limited and you have a choice of bikes, it’s always better to choose the mountain bike, even if you’ll be riding it on the road. Riding 12 miles on fat tires is the equivalent of doing 15 on skinny.”

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June 14, 2001

Windows 2000 Security Recommendation Guides

NSA released their Windows 2000 Security Recommendation Guidese. the site includes INF security configuration templates for the security configuration editor and PDF white papers on windows security.

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June 13, 2001

SmartTags, a trigger for hypocrisy

finally, a realistic commentary about microsoft’s new proposed SmartTags feature

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June 12, 2001

Local bike shop ;

ahh … my favorite bike shop is now online millburnbikeshop.com … nice site pat!

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June 11, 2001

So long and thanks for all the fodder

“Two of the Web’s longest-lived magazines, Feed and Suck, said on Friday that they had suspended publication and laid off their skeleton staffs because they were unable to raise the money needed to continue.”

From: 2 Long-Running Internet Magazines Shut Down

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June 8, 2001

Have a smoke, but don’t stroke!

i saw this link on geeknews and it’s sinfully hilarious!

“Masturbation is more dangerous than smoking!!”

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June 8, 2001

Linux on the PlayStation

Czech company Blokman Trading s.r.o. just released an alpha version of the Linux 2.4 kernel for the original PlayStation.

More news here: PlayStation branches out

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June 8, 2001

Delegation scales the community

this is a bit old, but i thought it to be a great quote by Stefano Mazzocchi about his decision to leave the Apache Cocoon development he created:

“…delegation scales the community and a bigger community means more value, more fun, more positive energy. But delegation happens only if you trust, if you consider your fellow community mate equal to you.

When this doesn’t happen, friction develops, bottlenecks arise, positive energy turns into negative one.

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June 8, 2001

Those annoying X10 Pop-Under Ads

Turn them off here ! (well, only for 30-days, but hey it’s better than nothing)

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