Cruftbox: My Box of Cruft

Blogshares went live today. The site simulates a stock market based on weblogs and looks at links to simulate cash flow. It’s a fun little diversion. Ego driven like most weblog things.
Alec Saunders .LOG is giving away $1000 blogshare dollars to link to him. I’m not proud. I’ll take the $1000.
I don’t know where he got the cash, but I’ll help launder it.

I spent the evening talking to Michele and converting her weblog over to Movable Type.
Enjoy Scarymommy with the MT flava!
Thanks to James for help with the install over the weekend.
I’m going to sleep now.

Funniest. Video. Post. Evar.
Watch them in order…

My fraternity brother Casey is selling a car and a boat.
If you are in the market for such things, check out his 2002 Nissan Xterra XE and his “Awesome” 2001 Crestliner Welded Aluminum Bass Boat w/Trailer.
He could use the money so I’m sure you could wheel and deal a bit if you are interested.
BTW, if you never have looked at Craig’s List, you should. It’s where the cool people check the classifieds.

Sometimes it sucks not to have a Mac.
Apple’s new music service is out and only Mac people get to play.
🙁

Beware the new Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Beta.
Don’t download it. Don’t do it.
You could end up playing for 4 hours straight and going to bed in the wee hours of the morning.

Here’s a snippet of my referrer logs:

Ever wonder what NET CLR 1.0.3705 in your referrer logs means? So did I.
I found out that it’s the version of the .Net Framework Internet Explorer (IE) has installed on the computer looking at your page.
Thanks to Google I learned how to change this string to whatever I want.
I wrote up a page on Changing IE Agent Strings as a reference for others.
There has got to be other cool hacks of the agent strings and other data that is passed to web servers by browsers.
Let the fun begin…

Rather than incisive words of wisdom today, a set of recent photos for you.

The girls on the plan on the way to Cincinnati, watching a DVD on the laptop.
It was a H.R. Puffinstuff DVD

The girls and I made cookies in the Easy Bake Oven today.

Smuggling goetta and Skyline Chili in my suitcase.

The Cruft Reference Book.
You simply must love eBay for finding things like this.

My new haircut.

Martin Diggs is Chokersandwich

A guy gets a little busy and peeps start taking pot shots… I guess I gotta throw down a little old school entry to satisfy the teeming hordes perusing the site.
Proud
I am proud of my wife, Michele. She’s off in Paducah, Kentucky for the AQS Quilt Show. This is the Mother-of-all-Quilt-Shows. She took the laptop with her and is going online to check email and she’s blogging the show!
Remember, she’s the one with the BFA, not a EE degree like me, so her first solo trip with the laptop is a big deal.
With lines like this, she’s got the blogging thing down better than most:

When I walk through the convention center, I can see the TRUE America…
It’s the women. and most are size XL and fuckin’ proud.

I tried to convince her to try the wireless card, but there’s no damn Starbucks even in Paducah for her to connect to easily…
Rant
Fuck Rick Santorum. This bigoted, lying, hypocritical, sack of shit represents all that is bad about the closed minded fucks that inhabit the right wing of the Republican party. This guy has got to go. America is about personal liberties and freedoms. He’s against that. He’s against the core of American ideals.
Call that scumbag at 202-224-6324 and tell him to resign.
To try and defuse the situation, he actually said this:

“[I have]no problem with homosexuality — I have a problem with homosexual acts.“

Look, I know plenty of Republicans that are good hearted people that love America and have tolerance for all creeds. I ask you, doesn’t this stufff make you sick? Why don’t you take back your political party from the fascist fundamentalists that at are using our Constitution as toliet paper?
Weblogs
Alrighty people listen up. Many of you that read this here weblog, have weblogs of your own. I use blogrolling to keep track of all the weblogs I read and tell me when they update. The trick is that when you update your weblog, you need to tell the tracking services like blogrolling, weblogs.com, and blo.gs that you’ve updated.
It’s not hard. If you use Movable Type, just make sure that Blog Config -> Preferences -> Allow Pings on by default? is checked ON. If you use Blogger, just upgrade to Blogger Pro and it happens automagically.
Just do it.
Don’t linger at the bottom of my blogroll list, I don’t look there. I’m looking at the top of the list for the fresh blog entries.
Food
I’ve converted another into the Church of Skyline Chili. BillB is a true believer. He tried Skyline and LOVES it. You will too, if you try it.
Gaming
I’m in game-overload. BF1942, Shadowbane, Planetside, and now the RtCW: Enemy Territory beta. So few hours, so many games.
Star Wars Galaxies looms in the near future threatening to consume the gaming world like a neutron star passing through a star system.
It’s a good time to be a gamer.
Tech
There are a couple of tech stores that need mention.
The first is Tigerdirect. Tigerdirect is like the clearance center of the internet. They’ve always got cool shit on sale. They have everything you need, want, and don’t know you need, on sale. They’ve got an amazing section of recertified and closeout technology that makes even and Fry’s-hardened geek like me drool.
The second is Cyberguys. They don’t have such a wide selection, but they have items you can find nowhere else. You know you need dual power extension liberator and a USB cell phone charger and an Asian Design MouseRug.
These guys are worth signing up for their email to check out the deals.
Wrap-up
So, is that a good enough weblog entry for you content hungry hounds? Time to go do something else…