Chris Meller

As some of you may know, I’ve got a FeedMap neighbor (also named Chris BTW) that’s about as politically incorrect, rude and sarcastic as I am (maybe even a little more, if that’s possible).

I don’t read Chris’ blog Intermitten Stream all that often, but I try to skim over his posts in my RSS reader at least once a month. During my monthly skim, I just spotted his post Hope Allah’s Wearin’ Kevlar.

All I can say is praise jesus… Someone out there has got the right idea. Honestly, I’m just as tired of hearing about Iraq as the next guy, but there are definitely other places we could be “stretching our muscle” so to speak… Such as Iran. Allow me to quote a little of Chris’ post:

Iran. I’ve had enough of those fuckers. Let’s get the 3rd and 4th ID back in-theatre and throw it down. Put the 5th Fleet across the Straits of Hormuz and shut down Iranian imports and exports. Since they get something like 90% of their gasoline via that route, we should have em pissing themselves in a few weeks.

Here here! I think Chris would make an excellent security advisor to the White House. We’ve got the largest armed forces in the world, let’s start settling some shit… You want peace in the Middle East? We’ll give it to you… one way or another. Just don’t go crying to CNN when we bloody a few noses in the process.

A great read. I highly recommend you check out his blog… right now.

BTW Chris, congrats on your successful installation of “C Daddy”! When do you and your drinking partner plan on upgrading to version 2.0?

I was finally digging (no pun intended) through the backlog I had of digg items in my rss reader tonight, and came across a couple of interesting things…

Did you know Amazon had a Sex Shop? Neither did I… That’s nice. Now we can all buy our sex toys and everyone will just think we’re getting books or something from Amazon… Convenient!

Also, I found a very good tutorial on how to Kill Spyware. Next time someone tells me their computer is running slow, I’m just going to print this out for them. I might even hand them a CD with all this stuff pre-downloaded on it. I’m so sick of dealing with spyware at work, I out-right refuse to help people clean it up at home. I know it could be a cash cow if I let it, but it’s such a pain in the ass, I refuse to deal with it. Now even a total idiot can fix their problems with the help of this tutorial.

UPDATE: My bad… I was reading so much stuff, I got it confused. This wasn’t actually through Digg, it was through Jason Clarke, who happens to be the author of all 3 of the posts I mentioned yesterday from Download Squad!

Also of some interest was a list of Essential fonts for Designers. Just don’t let any of our Marketing people get ahold of this, because I just had to smack their hands Thursday. They insist on doing absolutely everything in Helvetica New. Even Word templates for our Customer Service Reps to print out and send to people. This is absolutely crazy. I agreed to install Adobe Type Manager on the first 8 machines and install the font, but now we’re talking several dozen machines. It took me an hour to explain to them that in wide-spread applications such as this, every other company in the world uses a font that’s standard in Windows (such as Arial or Times New Roman). I haven’t heard anything else from them about it, so I’m assuming I got my point across.

Just as with my post yesterday about Download Squad having a better interest-to-crap ratio than normal, so has Digg. Still a lot of crap to weed through, but it’s getting better. We’ll have to see if this is indicative of a new trend or if it’s just a fluke…

Welp, Download Squad (one of the Weblogs, Inc. members) was particularly above average today, providing me with 3 exciting links. So, here we are with the Download Squad Goodness:

• Magazine Cover Generator
• Free and Powerful Defragmenter for Windows (works great!)
• Free P2P Internet Television with Sopcast (BBC World Report kicks ass! I don’t really care about the rest…)

Today was a very good year for downloads… Keep up the good work guys! Now you’ve set a higher standard! :)

Interested in computer and technology security? How about podcasts? Well, then this is for you! It features Steven Gibson, who has some great reads about DoS and DDoS attacks against him as well!

Announcement:

This shorty podcast (18 minutes) will be a weekly look at hot topics in security from the creator of ShieldsUP and Spinrite (and TWiT regular). We’ll release it by midnight Thursday every week, just in time for your weekend podcasting.

Hat Tip: Jake Jarvis

Well, I’d intended to make a much longer post about the theme mods I’ve made in the past few days, but I haven’t been able to finish it, since it goes into some incredible depth about the innards of WordPress. I’ll get it up as soon as I can.

In any case, I just wanted to let everyone know that I actually meant these changes to happen. I also realize that there are some slight display problems in Internet Explorer. Since I designed and tested the theme on a Linux box, I didn’t have access to Internet Explorer to test with. Since IE still represents about 90% of the market share, I’m going to do what I can to fix this as soon as possible… Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to actually be anything wrong with the code, so god knows how long it’ll take for me to figure out the problem.

As usual, if you have any comments, please let me know…