Microsoft ends Seinfeld commercials

Unfortunately they canceld them just as I was starting to warm up to them. The true shame is that they are being replaced by a “I’m a PC” type add.

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Diebold

Diebold recently announced that their is a bug in their programming, that they say will cause some votes to be lost.

Please remind me why the US government is paying them millions of dollars.

http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/08/21/voting_machines.html?sid=101

QR Codes

Aren't QR codes fun?

I’ve been dabbling in QR codes lately, and had a hell of a time trying find a half-way decent QR reader for Windows Mobile. I at last found one that works,
i-nigma. Unfortunately, on my Q9c it doesn’t use the full screen and can get a little annoying, but on a WVGA phone (HTC Diamond, HTC TyTN, etc.) it should look fine.

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Skullcandy “Smoking Buds” Earbud Review

Recently I recieved a pair of Skullcandy “Smoking Buds” earbuds. I was moderatly impressed by the sound quality for a pair of $10 fashion earbuds, but was ultimatly dissapointed by the build quality of them. After about one month one earbud stopped working. “Whatever,” I thought, “my guitar amp only outputs in mono anyways and nobody wants to wake up at 2:30AM to the sound of me playing a poorly practiced rendition of ‘Sugar’ and they fit in my pocket a hell of a lot better than my Sennheiser HD202s.” Well, the other earbud didn’t last too long either, dieing only a couple of days after the first pair gave up the ghost. Meh, they won’t be missed; none of the three included tips fit in my ears, they are so bass heavy they make my HD202s sound treble heavy, and I can’t say I cared much for the styling either, as it seems that everything aimed at the 18-30 year old market is plastered with skulls.
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