Heather got me a tiny little Chihuahua puppy for Christmas this year. So far, all she does is eat and poop and bite me. The puppy does much the same.

All together now: AWWW!

Ia! Its wretched green plastic cuteness eats at my sanity!

Yay! Someone wrote an app that connects a WiiMote to a Mac!

Now I really, really need a Wii.

Today is the day we celebrate Cow Pants.

Wild. For years I’ve thought luffas were sea-sponges. In fact, they’re garden vegetables that you can grow in your garden.

Woot! The new Mobile Gmail app is very nice on my Blackberry 7100.

I’m now the proud wearer of this awesome shirt.

Pegasus Publishing rocks. Go buy stuff from them.

Load-balancing with Tomcat and Apache.

“Despite assurances from the card companies, researchers Tom Heydt-Benjamin and Kevin Fu were able to easily retrieve data from the new cards … data available without encryption and in plain text. From the article: “They could skim and store the information from a card with a device the size of a couple of paperback books, which they cobbled together from readily available computer and radio components for $150. They say they could probably make another one even smaller and cheaper: about the size of a pack of gum for less than $50. And because the cards can be read even through a wallet or an item of clothing, the security of the information, the researchers say, is startlingly weak.

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon is the phenomenon where one happens upon some obscure piece of information???????? often an unfamiliar word or name???????? and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly. Anytime the phrase “That’s so weird, I just heard about that the other day” would be appropriate, the utterer is hip-deep in Baader-Meinhof.

That’ll explain why you’ll hear a lot about Scandinavian death metal in the next few weeks.