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Worse than the "I'd hit it" McDonald's ad campaign? You be the judge:

Today's Target ad:



and:

UPDATE: I removed the actual image and replaced it with this link because it seemed a little crass; click here to see possibly NSFW image

4000 Dead

I try not to get political in my blog but today I am breaking that rule by linking to a mosaic made up of the photographs of 4,000 American soldiers killed in Iraq. It's a political statement because the mosaic of the dead makes an image of George Bush.

Whether you agree with the sentiment that the deaths are directly the president's fault, you can't help but be moved by seeing the faces of all those people on the screen at once.

Fios performance

It's been a few months now that we have been living with Verizon Fios after ditching Comcast, and I can say that the two most important criteria are being fulfilled; they are:

1) Reliability: it's always up, and the issues we had initially with connectivity were resolved and have not returned.

2) Performance/speed: this screenshot says it all:



(1901 KB converts to 14.85 megabits, which is right at the service level we are paying for)

So, Fios is two for two in my book, and I am loving it. Vista does *not* do the smoking fast downloads that XP does, though, so if I have something large to download like the 800 meg ISO in the screenshot above I remote into a computer that is running XP and download it there.

free subversion host

A while back I was looking for a free subversion host, and I wasn't able to find a whole lot. I had thought about setting up a server on one of my own machines at home, but part of the reason for using a remote host (outside of me not having to hassle with setting it up) was that I wanted it to be offsite so that I didn't have to worry about my clunky old hardware going toes-up and taking out my source code with it. The last time I looked I found cvsdude, which works well but only gives you 2 megs of space for free. Tonight I looked again, and I found unfuddle, which offers free account users 200 megs of space, a vast improvement over 2!

I just started using unfuddle, and I haven't used cvsdude much at all because of the space limitations, so I can't offer a comparison yet. unfuddle is looking better because of the additional space alone, but they also offer a set of project managment tools that might come in handy.

If you love subversion, you'll love having a free offsite host. If you don't love subversion, it just means you haven't used it yet; once you do you'll never want to use anything else. Get yourself the tortoisesvn client and enjoy.

Fun new way to read Dilbert (in color no less)

Friday funny

Other articles in the series: hearing difficult for the deaf, living difficult for the dead, etc.

RSS is *everywhere*

UPDATE: for some reason not all the images come through in my feed reader; there should be three images below: two smaller ones side-by-side, and then the larger one that is a larger shot of the drinking fountain top.
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First there was the coffee cam, then the internet-enabled refrigerator, now there are water fountains with RSS feeds:

Separated at birth?