Guile’s World

It was the lead item on the U.S. government’s daily threat matrix one day last April.

I guess it’s “Career Opportunity” week here at Guile’s World. Today, you have the golden opportunity to become a private interrogator in Iraq. Do you get your very own prisoner to abuse, or do you have to share with the marines?

Girls Gone Wild is looking for a "hands-on, take-charge" guy as their new Director of Production. Excuse me while I go dig out my Humber College production videos…

Taking heavy fire from the NetSky.P and NetSky.Q virii, casualties are heavy. Trying to train Thunderchicken to filter it out but not having much luck. Hand-written Mail Rule doing most of the heavy lifting.

Toyota has unveiled a concept car, the Sportivo Coupe, that automatically narcs you out if you’re speeding.

CNet News.com.com.com is carrying a story about a planned interim release of Windows XP to keep the income stream flowing fill the gaping hole in the product line tide us over until Longhorn. The Microsoft geeks have watched The Matrix too many times, apparently, because it’s being dubbed “Windows XP Reloaded”. I assume that’s an internal name.

Gibson is launching a digital electric guitar. It looks and plays like a regular Les Paul, but instead of pickups and audio cable, you plug in an ethernet cable. Unfortunately, this means you can’t plug it into that 1944 Fender amp. Worst idea in the history of electric music or the next big thing? Time will tell.

I understand the need to have timeouts when you’ve logged into an online system, online banking for example. But why are so many sites incapable of dealing with clicking “Log Out” when the session’s expired? When the session’s expired and you click Log Out, the response should just be “ok, done,” not a page screaming at me that my session’s expired and I need to log in to do that.

Our good friends in the Recording Industry Ass. of America have taken the law into their own hands and starting conducting police-style raids on street vendors of illegal CDs.

Excellent, insightful article on self-censorship, heretical thoughts and what to do with those thoughts. Should be required reading for the entire world, and especially for those people who think it’s necessary to enforce political correctness.