Blogging will be a little light this week since I am on vacation and it may be difficult or impossible to find a wireless access point. I am in the North Carolina Outer Banks for a week, to include a stopover on Ocracoke Island. One week of Sun, Pirate Lore and relaxation is [...]

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Unbelievable. Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton decided to go shot for shot with Vodka on a recent trip to Estonia. Neither of them remember who won. I wonder if either one of them started looking better to the other.

Drudge has the details, but I wont link since he frequently overwrites his [...]

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What is up with High School Coaches getting caught for sending porn to kids? Meet Randy Jennings, a Tennis Coach at East Gaston High School in North Carolina. He is charged with being a pervert by sending pornographic images to what he thought was a 13 year old girl in Virginia.

From My Local [...]

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Good news for smokers trying to quit- A new vaccine is in the human testing trials that is supposed to block the nicotine from reaching the pleasure receptors in the brain so smokers can enjoy the rush that comes with smoking.
As a reformed smoker, and going on my 4th year anniversary of not having a [...]

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You just don’t hear much about female hackers, and in this case, I don’t think the girls were doing as much hacking as much as unauthorized use of a computer account. What is really unusual is that this was a lesbian couple that perpetrated this so-called prank. What started out as a joke looks [...]

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Yeah, that HIPAA regulations aimed at privacy sure do have some stiff penalties. You simply don’t mess around with patient and doctor information. A hacker named Bill Bailey swiped the membership database from the American College of Physicians.

From the Register Here:
A man has been charged with stealing the membership database of the American [...]

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Deloitte and Touche (or is it toilet and douche?) got sloppy with customer data again. Just months after a D&T employee left a CDROM in the seatback pocket on an airplane, another D&T employee allows his laptop to get swiped from his car. Was this employee having drinks at a local pub when [...]

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CNET is broadcasting this headline like its a bad thing. I have been beta testing IE7 for several weeks now, both on XP and on the new Vista Beta platform. IE7 is still not a stable version of the browser, but it has some excellent security features such as big warnings for expired [...]

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union have been trying to leak national secrets to the press and to America’s enemies by bringing lawsuits against AT&T to get them to divulge what information, if any, it gives to the National Security Agency.

A federal judge last week ruled in EFF’s case to not [...]

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This is a good move for Symantec, and a likely lifeline that will keep Symantec around for a while. In a response to AOL offering its users total security with a bundled McAfee security, Symantec reached out to Yahoo to allow Yahoo users get 20 dollar discounts on its AV software.

Symantec could have been [...]

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This is a bizarre story that I heard on the Sports Junkies morning show while I was driving into work this morning. It seems that a mentally disturbed man walked into a Springfield Arabic and Mediterranean grocery store and used a meat slicer from the butcher’s counter to cut off his own hand. [...]

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Okay, just so no one ever accuses me of always writing negative pieces about MySpace, here is a bit about the good parts. MySpace is its best when it is used as advertising and networking with other like-minded people. As a staunch capitalist, I worry most about the impact that MySpace’s shenanigans will [...]

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It is hard to believe that people still fall for those emails that claim that some poor Christian lady who is the pious wife of a corrupt politician or oil tycoon needs your help to smuggle millions of dollars out of the war-ravaged and corrupt country that the emailer still lives in.
The emails invariably say [...]

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Its that time of the year again. The time when all of your coworkers and friends begin to ask and beg you to join their fantasy football leagues. And its the time of the year when I repeatedly tell them all no, I have plenty of time consuming distractions already. I dont [...]

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I am exhausted after a wonderful weekend trip to the tops of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee to participate in a motorcycle ride to benefit research into a cure for Fragile X.

We stayed right on the Blue Ridge Parkway near the famous Stations Inn Motorcycle Resort and Restaurant at Laurel Springs, North Carolina. The [...]

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Since I was talking about superheroes earlier, I found this funny mashup on Youtube, courtesy of Digg, that has the Superfriends re-enacting the opening of Office Space.
Click on the photo or here to see the movie.

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That creepy kid from Spielberg’s horrible movie AI, Haley Joel Osment, wrecked his car at 1 AM. Seems he mistook a brick pillar for a lane on the road and he flipped his car. No word as yet why he didnt avoid the brick pillar or why he wasnt wearing a seatbelt.
The biggest mystery to [...]

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A Philatelist is a person that collects stamps. When I was a small kid, my parents recognized that I was kinda geeky, so they started buying me stamp collections. They were really kinda cool, but as I got older and my interests went to comic books and girls, I gradually lost interest in [...]

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India took a huge step backwards in their democratic society. They have ordered their Internet Service Providers to ban access to certain blogging websites that are critical of Islam and its creeping insidious influences on societies around the world.

Any culture that will kill and maim over editorial cartoons, will ban artwork depicting a [...]

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Sunday was the perfect day in Northern Virginia to go wine tasting. It was sunny and warm, and the standard humidity was gone. We made our way to Windham in beautiful Loudoun County’s rolling wine valley in Hillsboro, VA and tried their excellent wines.

Windham touts the fact that most of their wines [...]

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