Marky’s Web Log

Just saw a comment about how cheap life must be to people that ride motorcycles all year round.  I want to make this very clear to people that don’t understand.  YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!

I ride year round and my life is extremely valuable.  My childeren and wife are priceless.  God gave them to me as a gift and I cherish Continue Reading »

This is awesome.  Tragic I don’t know that the kids that this is aimed at are going to completely understand it.  I can only hope they understand that GenX f’d up and we are trying to fix it.  Well most of us are.

On my cooking site elkif.com, I post recipes that require fractions. Often I want to make it readable but HTML/Wordpress don’t make any allowance for that. So here is what I use for my fractions;

• ¼ = ¼
• ½ = ½
• ¾ = ¾

There is more if you want different fractions by using ⁄ with a number in front and in back.  An example of fraction slash is 3⁄8 which equals 3⁄8.

Today I am mourning the death of Lingon. An excellent Plist editor for OS X. I was going to write about how Zug told me that there was a dedicated plist editor in 10.6 (one of the few redeeming qualities of 10.6) and then immediately told me that it wasn’t as pretty as Lingon. I started to gather web links so I could give Continue Reading »

I will say it proudly, I am terrified of flying. Absolutely terrified. I kid you not I actually cry when I have to be in an airplane. That is why I Drive to Las Vegas from Reno when business takes me that direction. I am OK with the extra time it takes from my life as I am really that terrified of flying.

Some weeks ago Miller with CDW and I were talking and we were discussing how he was riding around and saw a young lady (kid like 7 years old) wrecked her bike and Continue Reading »

As a long time Slashdot reader I have learned that Slashdot can have some very sensationalistic headlines. This one is by far one of the worst I have seen yet. Saturn has a giant ring around it? Really?

Saturn has rings? Nuh uh!

I sent this email out to the staff of my $DAYJOB.

As of late the Technicians of the world have been overrun with some malware called “Antivirus Pro”. It is delevered via a flash banner with Java embedded that runs when you close the popup. Then demands your credit card to remove the virus that it self Continue Reading »

Since my world really is based in Windows, and some major changes are happening. Windows 7 and Exchange 2008, I have been focusing on Windows as of late. I still truly believe that Ubuntu and Linux are very very very close to opening the worlds mind to change. But the business world is still very grounded in Microsoft. At the end of the day Microsoft products are what pay my bills.