I really don’t like Cleveland.  I have been there a few times on business travel and it always turns into a nightmare.  Once I had to walk 10 miles across Cleveland to the airport because the taxi company would not dispatch a taxi.
Every locality has its own odd commercials.  In the DC area we have [...]

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I was beginning to get worried.  Many bands that win best new artist end up in absolute obscurity or generate really bad follow-up albums.  And after “Songs About Jane,” there was nothing new from Maroon 5. 
 
Their new album, “It Won’t Be Soon Before Long” is due out May 22nd.  They describe it as “sexier and stronger,” [...]

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Criminals are generally pretty stupid, but this one sounds like he would have gotten away with it-  if it werent for the clues he left in his google search history.
 
From the AP here:
A bank robbery suspect was arrested after leaving a trail of cyberclues, including an online search for “how not to rob a bank,” [...]

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There goes my plans to have porn-based belching.
Lots of organizations are lashing out at ICANN, the group that manages the domains for the internet, for denying a top level domain of XXX for porn sites and smut peddlers.  Governments and parent groups said that it would be easier to block these domains for kids.  Kids [...]

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If you want to participate in American Justice, you gotta play by American rules, baby.  That includes removing your veil if you testify in court.  The constitution demands that the accused be allowed to face their accuser in court.  This means no masks.  No Furry costumes.  You can’t wear a paper bag over your head.  [...]

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You know, I once received a cease and desist letter from the Henson Company because I took Ken Starr’s report and replaced key players in the report with Muppets.  They wrongfully claimed that I was infringing on their copyright, but parody of famous people and characters, icons, and ideas are not copyright infringement.  Henson died [...]

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It sucks to be deployed and away from your loved ones.  But the new technology is helping to make it just a little easier.
 
From the AP here:
When it came time for a Minnesota National Guardsman to kiss the bride, she was about 6,000 miles away. But that didn’t matter Wednesday, as Spc. Abraham Rhode and [...]

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Matt and Trey produced a hilarious South Park last night that lampooned so many things it was hard to keep up.  What was mostly a South Park version of the TV show 24 lashed out at muslims, homeland security, internet sleuthing, the British Navy, the Queen of England, and best of all, Hillary.
 
Hillary was quite prominent [...]

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Hackers who trade credit card and stolen identities online are now communicating with each other over an encrypted chat program called Carder IM.
 
From Infoworld here:
Hackers have built their own encrypted IM program to shield themselves from law enforcement trying to spy on their communication channels.
The application, called CarderIM, is a sophisticated tool hackers are using [...]

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As an internet security analyst, one of the tough jobs is determining the intent of an attacking IP address.  The intent can often make the difference in the response you wish to apply to prevent damage from an attack.  For instance, if the attacking IP is just part of a larger botnet, then it is [...]

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They released the cover art for the new Harry Potter book, Deathly Hallows.  HP still looks like he’s about 12.  And he is apparantly in some sort of arena too. 
If you havent ordered it yet, click on the picture below.  Amazon will guarantee delivery to your mailbox on the date of release.

Below is the whole [...]

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My wife and I stayed up late last night and HBO aired a documentary, Montana Meth, which showed the devastating effects of meth use on the young citizens of Montana.  It was horrifying.  They repeated one statistic that 85% of Montana court cases either deal directly or peripherally with meth use or crimes related to [...]

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I was the sanitation engineer for the Palestinian Authority.  I don’t know what they are complaining about.  Looks like an improvement to me.  I will blame it on the Jews.
 
Story from the AP here.
An earth embankment around a sewage reservoir collapsed Tuesday, spewing a river of waste and mud that killed five people and forced [...]

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To send them to Iraq.  I always knew the South was going to rise again, and this time, we are going to kick some Al-Anbar ass!  Are we really scraping the bottom of the barrel now that recruitment is at an all time low?  And the question remains, however-  Are they the best people to [...]

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Sheesh.  It seems that the baby Angelina adopted was in the orphanage because the mom couldn’t afford the 40 dollar hospital bill.  And the real mom never signed the adoption papers-  only the grandparents did.
 
From the New Zealand Herald here:

Drug addict mother of Angelina Jolie’s son may want child back
Angelina Jolie’s new adopted child Pax [...]

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Rapper Snoop Dogg was given the finger when he asked for a visa to play a concert tour in Britain.  Millions of British chavs are undoubtedly disappointed.
 
From the AP here:
Snoop Dogg and Sean “Diddy” Combs were forced to scrap a tour of Britain after authorities denied Dogg a visa, according to a statement Tuesday.
 
The duo, [...]

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Those whacky muslims and their silly beliefs!  Not wanting to take any chances with his wife out shopping, one muslim man resorted to a unique way to protect his wife’s honor.  He tied crocodiles to her.
 
From the AP here:
A woman with three crocodiles strapped to her waist was stopped at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing after [...]

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If phishing is using email bait to lure the unwary into identity theft, then hijacking the web traffic on a domain would be the equivalent of using dynamite in a lake to cause all of the phish to phloat to the top.
 
Microsoft warned today that their WINS and DNS servers could be used by an [...]

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I had the pleasure of visiting Fox Meadow Winery on Saturday.  The weather was mostly cloudy, but as we climbed in elevation up Freezeland Road, we encountered a dense fog that did not lift for the remainder of the afternoon.
 
The Syrah was as good as ever and I brought home yet another bottle of this [...]

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You have to be really drunk, really stupid, and really bad at thievery to let an owl kill you during a heist.

From Shortnews here:
Workers at the Moscow Zoo made a bizarre and tragic discovery when they found the body of a man wearing only boxer shorts in the owl cage.
The deceased, Alexander Luparev, [...]

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