It was time for a cool change. Likey? Have to phase in other pages and archives but you see where I’m going here.

Probably the coolest name for a city in all the world is Baquba. Seriously, New York? Boooooooring. Baquba? Ooooo, I kind of like saying it as a question too. Baquba? No, no Baquba. Baquba, you? Please, please more Baquba.

Anyway, whenever they mention some bomb blast in Baquba on the NPR, I think of Heart’s Barracuda and then I start singing it but with Baquba. I know there’s a syllable or two difference between the two but it still works.

Baquba?

“This is one of the stupidest movies I’ve ever seen,” is not the reaction any reasonably sane person should have to watching Real Genius, one of the top 25 movies ever made. Discuss.

You know how you search for something online and on whatever site you end up at, you see ads that are custom tailored to your search? Well, I type in my zip code on Yahoo! Weather and, accompanying my forecast, I get a text ad from something called tripadvisor.com that says: “Livermore Falls Maine Vacations - Compare prices, read user reviews of hotels and search for travel deals to Livermore Falls.”

I wonder if there is some kind of Be Reasonable Logic™ that they could use to filter out ridiculous things like that. This is a town that, last year, put up a sign at the main traffic light that says “Restaurants” and points in the direction of the single restaurant just two blocks away. There is no vacationing in Livermore Falls unless you’re into touring Rite Aids of the Northeast. Thanks for the chuckle tripadvisor.com.

In the absence of real content, here’s a bunch of software recommendations. Now it will look like I posted something but it is really just my dork ramblings.

1. Seriously, Sunbird is where it’s at. Just make a WebDAV space on your server and go nutty with collaborative calendars. Windows, Mac, Linux - it works on all of ‘em. Which I tend to like considering I work with them all on a regualr basis and I hate being tied to information. For 2005, I resolve to preach about Sunbird no more.

2. If you’re like me, you check your pockets every time you get in your car for your keys and wallet, wallet and keys, keys and wallet while tapping your pockets to feel that they are there just in case the sensation of the wallet in your pocket resting against your arse is all in your head. You are, then, equally paranoid at the thought of ever losing critical information that is on your laptop because of damage or theft. That’s why you use Password Safe to store your login/password combos, software codes, and other critical info. Again, plays well with all platforms. Keep your master database on a file server and access it from any platform. Database is Blowfish encrypted.

In the past, I’ve used Nullsoft’s little SafeSex for writing down passwords which also does the trick. Password-protected encrypted notepad that automatically deauthenticates after a brief time setting of your choice.

4. Lastly, I’ve been using DBAN for a while now. Permanent data destruction for hard drives from a bootable CD. It wipes drives clean with your choice of wipe methods including DoD spec methods.