Darkavich's Daily Ramblings Ramblings of a Mad Sys-Admin

August 29, 2008

some animals are more equal than others?

Filed under: SPEW — Darkavich @ 10:21 pm

I am not sure why this hasn’t made national news… There are always two sides to every story, but the video sure make it look like these guys stepped over the bounds of their authority. One makes you wonder about the kindler gentler world being promissed by certain people.

Sorry, about the ads.

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5670682

Where has customer service gone…?

Filed under: Items in the Pensieve,Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 9:55 pm

…It’s alive and well in the home appliances world.

On the heels of my wonderfull experience with KitchenAid I had to return one of my Henckels knives because a crack appeared in the blade. I wrote to them to see what the cost of repair was. They told me to ship them back the knife. I did that and promptly forgot about it for four weeks. Today my brand new knife arrived for free!

I am so glad that companies still stand behind their products. Too bad it’s a German company and not an American company.

Political FUD

Filed under: Items from the Quibbler — Darkavich @ 9:31 pm

I have been paying attention (my first mistake) to some of the comments made after McCain picked his VP choice. The biggest issue I have read is the inexperience of the governor of alaska. So I thought I would do a quick Wikipedia search of all the past presidents and see what their experience in public office was before they were elected as vice president or president. I found the results interesting:

Washington (No government experience, military only)
James Monroe (governor for 3 years and 4 months)
Andrew Jackson (senator for 16 months, governor for 8 months)
Zachary Taylor (no government experience, only military)
Millard Fillmore (no experience before elected VP)
James Buchanan (senator 4 months)
Abraham Lincoln (two years in House of Representatives)
Ulysses Grant (no experience, military only)
Chester Arthur (no experience)
William McKinley (4 years governor)
Teddy Roosevelt (2 years governor)
William Taft (1 month Governor cuba)
Woodrow Wilson (26 months governor)
Herbert Hoover (no experience)
Franklin Roosevelt (3 years governor)
Dwight Eisenhower (no experience, only military)

Take the results as you will… All I point out is don’t always listen to propoganda and FUD. Educate yourself and make sure your decision is your own and not just being a parrot of the news media.

August 25, 2008

Oh Mighty Isis

Filed under: Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 10:01 pm

So at the ball game today I decided to see how good the iPhone app is that recognized songs and allows you to purchase them. Between each inning they play music and I have wonder what some of the songs are. So, I started up Shazam! and well… Shazam! it recognized every song!

This app rocks!

August 23, 2008

Yubico’s Yubikey

Filed under: Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 9:36 pm

I received my two yubikey’s today. I quickly found the wordpress plugin and it JUST works after adding the plugin and setting up my account. Now I want to see if I can use this for my unix login and all other forms of authentication.

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