SuperJason’s Personal Blog

Google recently added a new feature to their search results that tells Firefox to prefetch the first result when you perform a search. That’s pretty cool, and it’s great advertising for the Firefox prefetching feature that many people probably did not know about. This could be great if used properly to really make your website seem fast. I’m going to give some thought to implementing this in a few places.

Melissa and I got a puppy named Lizzy. She is a 3 month old Lhasa Apso. I’ll have more details later.

I uploaded some photos here.

Sunday I went on kind of a shopping spree because there were a lot of good deals on computer equipment in town. I got a 160GB Western Digital 7200RPM for $40 after rebate, I got the 250GB version for $80 after rebate, and I got a 725VA UPS with surge protector and USB cable for $10 after rebate. I couldn’t pass those up. They are going on eBay so that someone who needs them can get them.

So needless to say, I used my credit card a lot. By the time Melissa and I got to Sears, I had used it 7 times. When I tried to use it at Sears, the cashier said that she had to call to authorize it. After waiting a few minutes, my credit card company wanted to talk to me. They said that the activity was suspicious, and they wanted to verify it. I asked how I could avoid it in the future, and she told me that the dollar amounts of the transactions do not matter, it is the quantity of transactions. What a pain. I would think that my credit card company would figure out that I do this frequently. Being unpredictable is the only predictable thing about my card usage!

Anyway, here is some real credit card humor. The credit card prank part 2. Basically, this guy tries to find out if people really look when you sign for a purchase. He signs things like “Butthole” and “NOT AUTHORIZED”. Sometimes he even draws elaborate pictures, which had to take quite a while to draw. The best part is that he even takes photos of them, and people still don’t check the signature. His plan reaches a high when he goes into a Circuit City, and tells them he wants their most expensive home theater. He doesn’t get away with it because the manager was watching over his back. It’s a must read.

Check out this computer on Amazon.com.  It features a 10GHz processor, 2000MB RAM, and a 30,000GB hard drive.  The comments are hilarious.

I thought this was pretty nifty, here is a way to have rounded corners without images or JavaScript. Basically they use a couple of lines that get successively longer, and that makes it look round. It’s a little bit of a hack, but it’s the most elegant solution I’ve seen.

Our answering machine hasn’t been working well, so I’ve been looking for a good deal for some time now. I found the Motorola MD681 5.8GHz phone from Amazon.com. It looks like a fairly fancy phone, and it just happens to have the answering machine I want. For $50 after rebate, I couldn’t pass it up. The phone has caller ID, base station speaker phone, handset speaker phone, phonebook, and handset headset jack. I have a headset, so it will be nice to be able to use it with this phone and its belt clip. It is also expandable up to 6 handsets.

I’ve been noticing something strange about my RSS feed.  Sharpreader frequently marks all my posts as updated.  I’m going to use this post so that I can compare the feed before and after to see if it changes when I make a post.  Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

You can download the episode III trailer in amazing quality from here: http://www.digitalentropy.net/Internapse/Index.html. If you don’t mind spoiling the whole movie, you can checkout screenshots of the whole thing here: http://airheadonline.net/ep3/ep3.htm. I’m not sure where he got those, but you can basically watch the movie in pictures.

For a hilarious spoof, check out this site: http://www.sequentialpictures.com/moviestarwarsepisode3.html. They did a great job at making fun of the movie.

Hopefully this will be the best movie out of the series. The previous movies seemed kind of boring, and seemed to lack a compelling story. That is just my opinion of course. The third movie could make or break the series.

I’ve been a little behind on my blogging, so I’m going to try to work a little harder on it. Tuesday was my 25th birthday. I took donuts into work which put everyone in a good mood. Donuts make the world a better place. For lunch, the guys took me out for all you can eat Pizza Hut lunch buffet. That was excellent, so thanks guys! I can never get enough Pizza Hut pizza.

In the evening, some friends and family came over for some Dairy Queen cake. Dairy queen cake is the best. I don’t really understand why anyone would eat regular cake, when they know that ice cream cake exists in the world. I uploaded a few photos of everyone.

What is up with this? I check out the control panel for my battery backup every once and a while, and here is what it says:

381 blackouts? I don’t get it. Has the power flickered that many times? If so, I feel bad for any devices that are not on a UPS. I hear the thing beeping all times of the day.