"You’ll go blind if you do that too much."  Just a scary story for hormone crazed boys right?  Maybe not.

FDA Looking Into Blindness-Viagra Link

The FDA
has 42 reports of the blindness, 38 among users of Viagra and four
among users of Cialis. There were no cases reported among users of
Levitra, the third impotence drug.

"We take this seriously," said FDA’s Cruzan.

Next I will start growing hair in unfortunate places. 

Yes, check out the little box on the bottom left.  Click on more and find feeds for everything we do here.

 I know, a little scary.  Not even I want that much access to it, but someone might.

I don’t even know what to say to this.

Ask God (Emphasis in the quote not added by me.)

The race for mobile Internet access has begun. Don’t be fooled by all the
wireless gadgets out there that promise you heaven but have you cursing like hell while you squint
at small screens and type on dot-sized buttons. To capture all the
information off the Net, all you need is the one thing you already have -
Your Cell Phone. Put your stylus down, stop searching the streets for Wi-Fi
spots and call ASK GOD. ASK GOD saves you the one thing you need and can’t
ever buy – Your time.

The goodness just keeps coming from R.K. Milholland.  Today he announces a new T-Shirt in his Warehouse 23 store.  And I think you’ll agree, its something we all need to wear at least once in awhile.

Seriously, wouldn’t this work well when you work in a customer service industry? 

Stephen Lynch has a really interesting article entitled The Geek
Age. A cut-down version ran in the New York Post in May 20, but thanks
to the magic of the interweb, you can find the full version here.

Lynch
brings up some good points, largely based on the notion that with the
presumptive end of Star Wars and the fact that there will be no new
Star Trek show on the air next year (for the first time in 18 years,
believe it or not), it may well be the end of the geek era, at least for a while. It makes for some interesting reading.

I have been learning to play the guitar off and on for about 10
years now.  The last few years I have stuck with it enough to be
entertaining at least to myself.

Once I could master changing
chords without tripping, I started to add singing to the act. 
Now, I sing with roughly the same proficiency that I knit.  In
other words, I can do it but I’m not sure the results are something
people who aren’t my mother would want to encounter (and I’ve seen mom
wince once or twice at my crooning).  But something interesting
has happened in the last year.  I stopped trying to sound like the
person singing on the record and started trying to sound like me.

The results have been pretty rewarding.

Now,
instead of trying to model my voice and phrasing after Darius Rucker,
David Bowie, or Edie Brickell I’m just belting out the lyrics and
letting my own voice decide what the outcome should be.  And for
the first time since my voice changed, I’m hearing something that I
actually like.  Not all the time mind you, but a lot more often
that I used to.

I’m sure there’s some deep life lesson to be
learned about listening to your inner voice and all that, but for now I
am just reveling in the fact that this is actually fun to do and that
some day I might take it out of my basement and subject other sentient
beings to my warbling attempts.

Jason and I have batted ideas back and forth for a few years now,
mostly in a haphazard way, about how to establish a functional business
that would support us.  Now with the budding (its a small bud to
be sure, but still there) success of Alleged Enterprises I am spending
more time dwelling on the topic.  Still a haphazard endeavor even
in my own mind but the math is very simple.

What service or
product can I provide to the world at large that would cause 1000
people to pay me $50 in profits each year.  For simplicty of math,
lets make it 1200 people.  That means that I need to find
something that would cause 100 people each month to give me $50.
Figuring 20 work days in a month (roughly) that means that each day I
would need 5 people to pay.

Conversely, I could try to find 50
people who felt that my services were worth $1200 a year.  This is
perhaps a bit more plausible, but it would depend on the service I
suppose.  In this argument I need to find a service that is worth
$100 a month to 50 clients.  

Only question now is, what is
the service?  This is the point at which I fall down.  But
one of these days when I am awake at 1AM on a Thursday for no reason,
it will come to me in a blinding flash.  So far the only idea I
have had that seems even remotely practical is to offer computer help
to home users who need a combination of training and support. 
Just have to find a way to package it correctly.

Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft passed away
Sunday at the age of 91.  Thurl who? I can hear you asking. 
While the name may not sound familiar the voice certainly would.

Thurl
was the only voice of Tony the Tiger from the character’s inception in
1952.  He also sang one of my childhood favorites "You’re a Mean
One Mr. Grinch" from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

I’ve been waiting for that perfect gadget.  Something halfway
between a laptop and a PDA that wouldn’t cost me more than a new
PC.  Well, Nokia comes damn close with their new 770.

…it relies on its Bluetooth v1.2 and WiFi (802.11b) support to connect
to the Internet either through your home WiFi router or via your
Bluetooth compatible mobile phone. Nokia envisions the 770 as an
inexpensive (about US$350) and convenient replacement for the 2nd or
3rd PC a family might have at home. It is the kind of device that you
leave on the coffee table or on the night stand next to your bed. When
you need to check your email or do a quick Internet search, you just
power it on instantly (like a PDA) and have at it.

There it is folks.  Someone who uderstands my geek needs.   Read the whole review.  The specs are tantilizing to say the least. I’ll be watching to see how these pan out.  And remember, only 7 months til Christmas.  I know you will all be taking up a collection to purchase one for me.

So after much mucking about and some genuine frustration, I
discovered that the reason the uploads were not working the way I
wanted was that my host has a 2 meg limit on uploads through HTTP. 
This means that for all practical purposes, there won’t be a media
section here for awhile.

I like my host, really I do.  But a
few things are starting to become prohibitive.  They run php with
safe mode on which I have generally been able to work around, but I am
beginning to feel constrained.

Good time for me to start working
on my own server.  A project I have been studiously avoiding for
some time cause it seems like such a big commitment.  But the time
is probably come for me to take the plunge.