eric’s extremeboredom

…when complaining about something you didn’t like gets you on the 6-oclock news. Last night right as I was about to turn off my computer a friend of mine sent me a link to a video of the to “Monday Night Football” on ABC. Some lady “wearing” nothing but a towel basically convinvced some football [...]

So I’ve been known to tell friends…relatives…people passing by on the street…that I think Windows…..sucks. Here’s another reason why. So I needed to install Windows. I wasn’t happy about it, in fact I was nearly in tears but it had to be done no thanks to a software company finally releasing a highly anticipated game [...]

Wow, I’m going to have to add a whole category for this soon. I saw this over at osnews: Ten SP2 flaws leave XP users open to hackers The article mentions two possibly independent problems both deriving from Internet Explorer. Although they have not released any proof of concept code, I can guarentee Firefox will [...]

It appears I inadvertenly found a bug in Internet Explorer… Visit the following URL using IE (works fine in any other browser) http://extremeboredom.net/IHATEIE.html …Just another reason you should be using Firefox.

The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 1.0 today! My congradulations and thanks go out to the entire Firefox team as well as all the other people who contributed to mozilla.org in any way. I ask any IE user that comes across the page to give Firefox 15 minutes of your time. Try tabbed browsing, try the [...]

I thought this was amusing…

(I meant to post this yesterday…) So I hear the weather in canada is sunny and liberal…

Today is election day in the united states. I ask all eligible voters to go out and make their voices heard! Find your polling place And don’t forget to watch the Daily Show live tonight at 10pm (that’s one hour earlier than normal) on comedy central! Around other people around the web are encouraging voting [...]

The latest issue of WIRED came with a CD with 16 songs licensed under a new set of licences from creativecommons that permits you to rip, sample, mash, and share. Unfortunetly the question I quickly asked myself was “Why would I want to?” because most of the songs on the CD are terrible. There’s some [...]

I hope you all saw the lunar eclipse the other night. Taken with my Canon Powershot S400 More photos (not taken by me) avaliable at SpaceWeather.com.