May 31, 2010

Pesticides on Fruits and Vegetables

Ever wonder what's hiding on that food your eating?
Check out this list of dirty foods, makes me glad we eat organic as much as possible. I imagine the increased cases of cancer have a little something to do with all the poison we eat and modified foods our bio-engineering companies (aka. the people who think they are smarter than God) are putting on the shelves of the supermarkets.
Pesticides on Fruits and Vegetables: The Dirty Dozen and More

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May 27, 2010

Exist Trace & Japan Files

Oh yea, I love finding new music!
Even more so, new music done by passionate Japanese artists.
I just discovered Exist Trace, High and Mighty Color and Dazzle Vision.
All can be found on JapanFiles for 99¢ a song. (and 320k high quality files, unlike some other crappy sites "cough, Amazon & iTunes")

It's a great way to support an artist w/o putting money in the greedy pockets of the big music companies.

So head on over and support the artists.

Posted by Muddy at 01:26 PM | Comments (0)

May 26, 2010

VMWare Love

Last week I was doing some training for work and while I was waiting on a very slow module to start up I thought "hey I should get vmware workstation since it's free for employees!". Yes, my brain really does have random non-related things pop into it every day.
Thus I went into our corporate employee benefits and found the info, went and registered on the site, downloaded the software then discovered I needed to log into another internal site to request a license.
That began my adventure, I'll cut it short for you.
I setup access on two different sites for managers... which reset my windows login password unknown to me at that time.
I quickly gave up trying to get a license and continued my training and finished up work.
I had a chat shortly after that with a co-worker who suggested I try the vmware player since it's free for everyone and I don't have to jump through endless hoops for a license.
I now have winders 7 and Ubuntu server 10.04 running in vmware player and love it.
It's a massive plus to be able to see how things will go during install and what problems I might have after.
I have been wanting to upgrade my old gentoo outdated install on my server to ubuntu, this has given me a chance to see what I can expect to encounter, what changes need to be made and so on.
Freaking fantastic.
Now if I could only take this current Ubuntu 9.10 install and mirror it to vmware then do an upgrade to see how it would go, off to research that!

Ubuntu homepage & VMware Virtualization Software for Desktops, Servers & Virtual Machines

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May 25, 2010

WoW and EvE Vacation

It's official, I'm taking a vacation from WoW and EvE.
WoW runs out in a week and EvE in July so I'm checking out the free mmo's in the mean time.
Runes of Magic, Perfect World International
for the moment.
I'll report back once I have my initial impressions.

Posted by Muddy at 03:13 PM | Comments (0)

May 09, 2010

F1 Spain

I would just like to take this time to thank my Mythtv Box for recording a rerun of Eureka instead of the Grand Prix of Spain this morning..... (insert cursing here).
Now I get to wait till Monday night to watch it, and enjoy my media black out so I don't find out who won or what happened.

Posted by Muddy at 10:40 PM | Comments (0)

May 08, 2010

School District: Flag Clothing Incident "Extremely Unfortunate"

Some parents of students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill are keeping their kids home from school after tension related to an incident involving students wearing American flag clothing on Cinco de Mayo spilled out onto the streets.

The students wore T-shirts depicting the flag to school on Wednesday. Administrators told the boys the clothes could be "incendiary" and asked them turn the shirts inside-out or face suspension. The boys refused so they were sent home.

Full Story

It's amazing how everything logical is getting flipped around.
Once we took pride in our flag, said the pledge at the beginning of the school day, even sang our national anthem.
Now you get sent home for having pride in your country.

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May 07, 2010

Chihiro! No!

One of my favorite artists has gone to crap *cry*.
Chihiro Onitsuka went from a passionate folk-pop singer to some experimental garbage.
After listening to a sample of the songs off her newest CD I was considering purchasing, I'm not.
Leave the odd music to Shiina Ringo at least, she knows how to make it work.

Posted by Muddy at 04:01 AM | Comments (0)