General

As a matter of routine maintenance, you should be sure to run the free TCP/IP Pipe Scrubber weekly to ensure a clean connection between your local computer and your ISP. You should also check out the Hard Drive Balancer.

Moving? iMove.com has some handy calculators and wizards that will help determine your relocation costs, cost of living change, and will also put you in touch with other services in your new area.

On Interstate 75 in Dalton, GA (the carpet capitol of the known universe), one can see this business from the southbound lanes. But wait, there’s more — see the billboard at the top right? That’s the part that’s turned perpendicular to the interstate. It’s got their name again, in huge block letters, with “HARDWOOD AND VINYL” emblazoned beneath.

You know it’s gonna be a good night when you crash almost half a million dollars’ worth of Cisco routers.

Cisco has a nice new tool on their website for registered users that searches their vast gigage of data for relevant articles based on questions or phrases you enter.

The response I got was very interesting:

“We are working to increase the content in the TAC knowledgebase. The information you have entered throughout this session has been sent to the TAC web team to guide its knowledge development efforts.”

This is interesting, because the phrase I entered was “I am a monkey.”

Yikes! Miss Flietcher from Yale Associates, Inc. called to check up on me today.

I fear.

You too can make your own seismogram of today’s earthquake in Seattle!

I’m thinking of selling my car, stealing a couple hundred grand, and buying a Unimog.

Joe Camel would be proud: Big Tobacco’s marketing campaigns overseas are so effective that encouraging 5-year-olds to smoke is a matter of civic pride.

Driving to the customer‘s site this morning, I spotted a sign claiming credit for some work that this company had done. Am I the only one who thinks they could have chosen a name with a better boding for their business?