AtomicBaboon!?!

This weekend I met up with my friend John and his wife and little boy and we all went to El Dorado Springs to the motorcycle dealer there. John had never been there and I like looking at Triumph's so we made a trip up there. I ended up filling out a credit app in preparation for my future ordering of a Thruxton.

The problem is I am a very indecisive person. Those who know me personally know this all too well. I can't make a decision to save my life. It's hard enough for me to decide where I am going to eat lunch everyday. Anyway, where I'm going with this is I need to buy a house. I would like to have a house before I have a motorcycle so I have somewhere to keep it. That would be the responsible decision. However, waiting until I get a house means waiting to have fun. I want to have fun riding a motorcycle NOW not later. But, if I have a motorcycle now where do I keep it. I still live in an apartment. I don't want to leave my motorcycle in the parking lot. I could "borrow" space in friends garage or rent a small storage space but talk about a pain when I want to go ride it.

Bah... anyway. Look at what John did to his motorcycle. It's crazy looking! It will definitely turn heads! Other colors are available from Tomhawk tires.

I was just reading an entry over on Threat Level (formerly 27b Stroke 6) about a "Hacker" that supposedly gained access to publishing company Bloombury's internal network where he found a copy of the final Harry Potter book.

Reading this, a few things came to mind. First of all, my BS Monitor picked up on some stink. Second of all I thought to myself, "Why would someone waste the time and take the risk to break into a network to steal a copy of a Harry Potter novel?" Third, why are they calling this script-kiddy a hacker? Honestly, he sent an e-mail to someone that had malware attached. When the recipient opened the attachment it provided him with the means to access their network. Most likely the guy downloaded it from some 31337 h4x0r site and attached it to the e-mail. Of course, there may have been some degree of social engineering involved to get the recipient to actually open the attachment. However, in my experience, these guys usually end up being wannabes looking for attention trying to prove they are 1337. Lacking the know how they download something written by someone who actually does know what their doing.

Assuming the guy did write it I still don't understand why he would waste the time to steal a Harry Potter book. I mean, seriously... come on. There are an infinite number of more entertaining if not more productive things to waste your time on. It all just seems silly to me. Anyway... yeah... there you go... I just think it is stupid.

I just added something called Snap Shots to my site. When you move your mouse over a link to an external site it will pop-up a small preview of that destination site. It gives you a quick glance of what is there before you go there. If you don't like it there is a disable button in the upper right hand corner of the pop-up. Let me know what you think.

I have been using Songbird to play and manage my music collection. It is a nifty alternative to iTunes that has add-ons for iPod support, Last.fm, Qloud, importing your iTunes library, among many other things. It is supposed to not only manage your music collection but your collection of bookmarks to music stores, music blogs, network media devices and services, and any other bookmarks you choose.

On top of all that, like Firefox, it is built using Mozilla so it supports many of the same features and it is Open source so you can hack on it if you want. Keep in mind that it is still a work in progress though. I haven't had any problems with it but it is not a completed product so if you run into some odd behavior don't be completely surprised. It is however very functional and nice to look at.

It comes with a nice set of default bookmarks and among them is a site called Scissorkick.com which is a blog about interesting and oft unheard of music and artists. So far just about everything I have heard there has been extremely cool by my standards. If you like music that is "Organic, electronic & everything in between" I'll bet my right shoe you'll like what they have on scissorkick.

P.S. I am willing to bet my right shoe because it has a small pebble in it right now that is driving me a little crazy. Of course I could just take the shoe off and remove the pebble but that would make sense.

Make any sense?

"You can drag a dead horse to water, but no matter how much you beat him you can't make him drink."
-Me

For you Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA) fans out there, the band has their newest album entitled "Era Vulgaris" on their website for your listening pleasure. The official album release is June 12th (next Tuesday). I like it so far, but I like pretty much anything they do to some degree.

Chatter pointed out that there is a new blogger that calls himself "The Secret Drinker" that started The "Dive Bar" Review. That could be an entertaining blog I think.

Have a good Friday.