BigCat’s Blog of DOOM

http://techdirt.com/articles/20061228/100058.shtml I agree with this article almost 100%. Municipal WiFi isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I just don’t feel like it is the right tool for the job in a lot of cases. I know Minneapolis is rolling out a city-wide wireless network, and I can’t help but feeling like it is a square [...]

Last year I did one of these posts about technology questions. It was fun, and I think there were some great questions asked. Check it out to see what we already covered. http://bigcat2k.livejournal.com/41271.html I put it to all of you to ask me the technical questions on your mind during the tail end of this [...]

Josh Carlson and I are going to run for president and vice president in ’08. We have not yet determined which one of us will be the presidential nominee, so we have decided to leave that to you, the voter / write-inner for the primary. ( read on for details ) And there you have it. Write [...]

This morning I was sitting in my bathroom, and a mouse popped out from behind our towel drawers. It runs around all crazy like trying to get out the bathroom door, and can’t cuz it is closed. So, after I finish my business, I try to trap the thing (we’ve been trying to catch this [...]

Last year the bears nickle-back was Jerry Azumah, number 23. He started at cornerback the year before that (if memory serves) and still stands in my mind as the worst defensive player that saw regular field time on the Bears since prior to 2001. This year the bears have a rookie named Devin Hester wearing [...]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=smith_michael&id=2692150&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines I think ESPN gets a duck-point when talking about Rex Grossman in this article. I specifically found this part interesting. Chicago’s defense and special teams make this team different than most. The Bears earned their last win with Grossman posting a 1.3 passer rating, and as noted by colleague Len Pasquarelli last week, Chicago [...]

http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/12/07/4577599bd7553 A Ninja asks for an apology, and doesn’t get one?!?!? I’m a little surprised he doesn’t start flipping out and killing people.

Current Mood:  impressedhttp://biz.yahoo.com/special/allbiz120606_article1.html Best Buy has a terrible stigma in my mind. Mostly of jerk-off employees (floor sales, as well as geek squade) who know little to nothing about computers or electronics, but are completely willing to vomit this wealth of nothing into your lap as if they had just coughed up little nuggets of [...]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1565076,00.html I’m more than just a little conflicted on this topic. Both arguments have merit. Barack Obama is very pro-choice. Rick Waren is very pro-life. Aids is an important topic to the secular community with a heart, and Rick Warren is trying desperately to remind the evangelicals that they have a heart and should care [...]

I’m really interested in the newest version of MythTV. It is a Windows Media Center type of program that runs on any variant of Linux, BSD, or OSX. I’m actually not interested in this just because it is both Open-Source and Linux-based, but because of the approach it takes to handling the TV recording, storage, [...]