Dave’s Blog

Here’s a funny ad in facebook that Belinda found:

News just in!  Parents whose children are given a mobile phone are bound by a mystical power preventing them from restricting usage or downgrading to a phone without wifi or mms capabilities. http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,23615248-5007221,00.html  “TASMANIAN children are viewing graphic pornography,…The videos were sent to the boy’s phone using bluetooth technology outside school hours.” “”I have no [...]

It’s been a while since I posted a browser compliance post so time for another, and this time it will be a little more thorough. IE 8 beta In my Microsoft download notifications E-mails, I noticed a link to the new IE 8 beta.  Well, I like looking at beta products, so I downloaded and [...]

No work = no pay, and that goes for God too!  Need to work hard for more grace?  Sick of those lazy Christians, who might lose their salvation, not listening to your bible verses?  Then you need to read the new ARMINIANIST bible in all your strength! Ever since the reformation, those pesky bible scholars have been misinformed about [...]

Sick of explaining to your unelect friends how the bible writers held the same systematic theology of today, only it was lost before the reformation?  Ever wondered how better to read God’s word as He intended it to be in full doctrine glory? Then the CALVINIST Bible was predestined for you! The chosen Watchdog staff [...]

I no longer have Vista on my notebook (too many errors and it gave up the ghost trying to triple boot) so I put it on my part time server / part time game PC. While copying my SuSE 10.3 CD image from it to the notebook to burn it, I noticed the copy speed was pretty slow: So slow in fact, that I thought it may be faster to download it from the ‘Net again…. [...]

 …pity I haven’t worked in the USA we got this in the E-mail the other day - one of the best I have seen.  They could have at least renamed it to the ATO :) Notification of Tax Refund on your VISA or MasterCard Now, > After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $203.59. >A refund can be delayed for a variety [...]

This is one of the best I have seen!  Small pic again, click to enlarge. EDIT: For non-IT people, it is an error and the website is displaying the username and password to the database.

<rant value=”extreme” target=”anyoneWhoWillRead”> That’s the acronym for VISTA.  It is a love / hate relationship with me really liking some features and loathing others. I installed Vista Ultimate w/SP1 that I got from the Microsoft Convention with Mark last weekend and it has been a week of, let’s call it fun. To install was quite scarey at first since it presents a large “Install now” button. I wasn’t [...]

I think I found one bug in Vista already – it thinks I have a super dooper fast wireless card