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Picking up a hooker in your work van.... see more Epic Fails Bustin' a cap in your homie..... Practicing your sword fighting skills...... Slangin' dope on the corner..... And lastly, stalking girls at the beach......

What a time I have had in the last week and a half.  After months and months of waiting, we were finally able to close on our new house and it was time to load the moving truck.  The worse part is it was one of the hottest days this summer in Florida, and the ground temp was well over 110 degrees.  I hired one of the teenagers from my martial arts school to help us, so that ended up being a very helpful decision. I have spent the last week building all types of thin...

I took a field trip with one of my daughters to the Brevard Zoo, as part of the 3rd grade field trip for this year.  Despite being a very hot Florida day, we saw some really cool animals and I was able to get some great shots. View Full Album

This is our Christmas Tree for this year.  It’s around a 6-7ft. Fraser Fir.  The lights are LED, with various ornaments.

Every day I visit tons of website, forums, and social networks for all types of topics, most of which are technology based in some sort of form.  This election cycle has really brought out the best of the liberal “group think” mentality regarding Obama.  On just about every social network Obama is praised as “the one” and any hint of disagreement with his policies or ideals is immediately responded with accusations of racism, or just plain insults.  Anybody who wants to claim that...

Google Knol, which looks like it could be a direct competitor to Wikipedia opened for users yesterday.  Knol is "authoritve" articles which emphasize authorship.  The point behind this is you know who is writing the content.  Wikipedia has fallen under criticism for users being able to manipulate articles without leaving much of a papertrail.  Knol seems to seek to avoid these kind of issues. Another feature is called "moderated collaboration" where a user can accept, reje...

I was reading an article on ZDNet today which states that Facebook has overtaken MySpace in terms of world-wide unique visitors.  It's kind of surprising for me since I had heard Facebook traffic has been declining.  Analyss suspect much of this growth is due to an increased presence overseas, which does make sense. Advertising dollars has still been a big problem for sites like Facebook, but it seems some recent hires in the PR department might be a way to turn their "image" around...

If you spend any amount of time on the Internet then I would probably bet you have be subjected to some form of talk about social networks.  Heck, even here on WinCustomize and JoeUser I regularly talk about the usefulness of such networks.  We have a growing group on Facebook about desktop customization , and several of us use Twitter as well. With all these current networks, and more popping up all the time, it can be difficult to keep track of them all.  I use quite a few...

Piracy, whether it be of games, movies, software, or music is a pretty hot topic these days.  On one side you have people against piracy who usually claim copyright should be protected and what people are doing is just plain stealing.  On the other side there are people who think attempts to squash piracy are against someones "freedom" and argue that piracy doesn't affect the bottom line in business. I have been looking through a bunch of websites that one could say the readers are ...

Since the political season is heating up even more, and politics is a hot topic on Twitter, we have created our own account for The Political Machine.  It will be regularly updated with links and comments about both the upcoming game, and articles on the PoliticalMachine.com website. There are also some great Twitter clients for both Windows and Mac. Witty Twhirl Visit our Twitter page and click follow to keep updated. The Politic...

FriendFeed popped out of nowhere for me.  I hadn't heard or seen of it until I saw a blog post from Robert Scoble .  With so many networks out there like Twitter, FaceBook, Flickr, etc. it's sometimes hard to keep track of all the people you follow.  FriendFeed helps out by displaying what exactly your friends and contacts are doing on other networks.  Once you signup (it's free), you just add as many of your own services as you like, and there are quite a few, and get conne...

After being in beta for quite a while, Microsoft officially released Windows Live SkyDrive. During the beta testing users had up to 1GB ofonline storage, but today it was upped to a whopping 5GB! In additionto the increased storage, SkyDrive also rolled out in 35 countries aswell. " You'vemade two things clear since our first release: You want more space; andyou want SkyDrive where you are. Today we're giving you both. You nowhave five times the space you had before — that’s ...

I have used Flickr off and on for the last few months, and finally upgraded to a Pro account because it has become and invaluable way to share and organize my photos.  Recently I received a beta invite to Photophlow and have been trying it out for the last week or so. The concept is rather simple, but the developers are doing a fantastic job implementing it.  Basically Photophlow is a way for Flickr users to share in real-time their photos with other users.  This is done in ...

I normally use Google Reader to view all my RSS feeds I am subscribed to.  I don't have an exact number of how many feeds I exactly subscribe to, but it's a decent number.  While I was looking through them today I thought it might be interesting to see what are the top 5 or 10 RSS feeds that our community members subscribe to. Here are some of my favorite feeds: CyberNet News MacRumors Mashable Scobleizer GameSpot News ZDNet News WinCustomize News If you...