Freshwater Cichlid tank

Well as the saying goes, "The two best days for a fish tank owner is the day that they bring it home and the day that they sell it." I finally got the tank finished after adding some more rocks and upgrading the lights. We now have three Jack Dempsey Cichlids and three Convict Cichlids living among us. The best part is that my dog Canada sits and watches the fish with the same interest that we do.

So I guess that when we are at work the dog has some entertainment. As with all fish tanks, they are a work in progress and tend to change with time. I like the current set up that we have now though. We haven't had any casualties yet but the fish have only been in this tank for 10 days. I have a feeling that one of the Convicts isn't going to make it since he is not eating as far as we can see. The dog hasn't given us any complaints yet but I am waiting for the attention monster to rear its ugly head.

KISS Rick Roll

I guess that the members of Kiss were feeling like some Rick Rolling.

Media Defender makes a boo boo, I hope that they have good lawyers

Last week, the great people over at Media Defender were accused of shut ting down the Revision 3 website with a denial of service attack. If you are not familiar with Media Defender, you should be. They are the ones that the record companies, movies companies and pretty much anyone who owns distributed and copyrighted material out there hires to take down peoples websites that share these files using bit torrent. I don't see how that is legal at all but then again, I'm not a lawyer. I think that this is a hilarious mistake made by Media Defender to shut down the website of the company that actually owns the material that they are distributing. Revision 3 produces many pod casts and other forms of media through various websites. The files that triggered this to happen was apparently pod casts being distributed using legal bit torrent sharing programs. The website was down for a full three days before it was made public that Media Defender was accused of being the source. I am a big fan of the Revision 3 pod casts and was a little surprised that during this period I was not able to get any new material from my sources that distribute Revision 3 pod casts. I hope that Revision 3 gets a HUGE settlement from these douche bags. These are the same guys that tried to shut down The Pirate Bay and did actually shut down Torrent Spy for a short time. I wouldn't be surprised if some grey hat hackers turned the tables on these sell outs and shut down their entire service. (Not that I condone that) Oh yeah, here is a picture of the president and CEO of this company. Like I said, bags of douche.

New blog layout

For those that actually do read my blog, let me know if you like the new layout. I am still working on the page but I like the progress so far.

Burn After Reading, Red Band Trailer

I saw this on Movieweb.com and thought that it looked promising. I just hope that all of the good parts aren't in the trailer, which is pretty funny.

Lost your Dell laptop recovery disk? Any Dell disk will do.

If you have ever experienced the panic that comes along with needing to reformat your laptop HD but you can't find the exact recovery disc that came with it, worry no more. While I was at work we had this issue present itself and I had to be creative to solve it. We have hundreds of different Dell laptop models running around the tech departments and no one person has ALL of the model specific recovery discs for each model. I did some research and through trying some different things I found that a Dell C840 recovery disc will work with a Dell D620 machine. The recovery discs aren't model specific at all, only the OS is the difference. So, if you lose your recovery disc for that old laptop, pop the newer laptop recovery disc into it and format away.

Bill O'Reilly behind the scenes remixed

I have never been a fan of Bill O'Reilly but this makes me like him even less. If I wanted to see and hear en ego maniacal deuce bag, I would watch the State of the Union address. This is pretty funny though. The original video is below this, it's as equally disturbing.