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HOW-TO stolen from Engadget - www.engadget.com

HOW-TO: Enable web based viewing and remote control over your TiVo - Engadget - www.engadget.com Every once in a while I realize I'm not hardcore enough about my gadgets, I gotta start mucking around with this kind of stuff more, remote tivo access is sweet!.

Rome Web Album

The album  from my big day out. Today I got out to see the city, and Rome has rapidly climbed the list of my favorite cities in the world. It's got fantastic weather, reasonable food prices, great people, and unbelievable scenery all around ( see pictures), some day I may try to learn italian and move here. Today I walked around downtown and waded my way through all the tourists. Apparantly on weekends with weather this fantastic romans tend to flee the city to beaches, so there was a really bad local to tourist ratio today. I started my day in the city at about 1pm with a large prosciutto e mozzarella pannino and a glass of wine, the bill was only 5 euros, that's 6 bucks for a big sandwich and a glass of wine, is this paradise? I walked around alone for a couple hours and took some pictures of a couple key spots (see album), and then met up with a friend of my mom's in the evening. We did more of the touristy thing, ate gelato, and grabbed a delicious dinner. Now I love LA, it's by far my favorite city in the states, but LA ain't got nothing on rome. This place has unbelievable history and culture, beautifull people, fantastic weather, great food, and it's even got palm trees. I think I'm home.

The X-Windows Disaster

The X-Windows Disaster a great little historical article about why X blows.

Drinks to annoy your date with

The Exorcist brilliant comic drink, worth checking out. My personal favorite drink to annoy a date with is the "Blood of the proletariat" (I invented this drink on a date with a girl who had clear socialist leanings). It's just a cocktail glass full of vodka that you carefully pour cassis into. The cassis, being denser and more viscous, stays mostly at the bottom and slowly diffuses into the drink, looking like blood in water. The punchline comes when the date asks you about the name, you replay and say "it's just like exploiting the working masses," "it gets sweeter as you go." If any of you have some good comical drinks to annoy your date with please post them