Monthly Archives: June 2006

The Apaches Are Back

By raishad | Published: June 27, 2006

Today’s Video of the Day is The Cardigans – “You’re The Storm”, from their criminally overlooked 2004 release Long Gone Before Daylight. It’s today’s video pick because Long finds the lead singer, Nina Persson, scary, with the dark eyeshadow and everything. Me, I’m the complete opposite. Also the video is nice if you like the [...]

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Deodorant

By raishad | Published: June 26, 2006

I have a quick little quiz for you people today, only 1 question Which of these 2 symbols is associated with Nazism? a) b) Take your time… The answer is of course b, the Swastika. Hopefully this wasn’t news to you, unlike the 2 youths at Walgreen’s yesterday who gave me guff for my Communist [...]

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Capital Jinx

By raishad | Published: June 20, 2006

Trinidad & Tobago then Dallas All in the same day

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Who knows what we’re Infor

By raishad | Published: June 17, 2006

Yes, June 15th has come and gone, signifying my first month as an Associate Software Engineer. It’s been a great month. I really enjoy my job. The kind of enjoyment that makes me excited to get up between 6 – 6:30am. Though I still find it hard to fall asleep before 11pm. I’ve tried with [...]

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Wine + Tiger + FreeNX = WTF

By raishad | Published: June 13, 2006

Situation: You’ve installed Wine onto your headless Linux server with the goal of using DVDShrink. Afterall, the server is mostly idle, must use those cpu cycles for good! After following the instructions, you get to the setup portion and what do you see, Indeed. But if you connect the server to a monitor, Wine works [...]

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Smurfs don’t lay eggs!

By raishad | Published: June 3, 2006

I have finally found a replacement desktop for the super cute picture of Kristen Bell playing a Nintendo DS, And yes that was painted by Bill Sienkiewicz. The Venture Brothers Season 1 DVD was released this week, and I finally finished all the episodes with commentary and the extras. And you know what I got [...]

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kilometers per liter

By raishad | Published: June 2, 2006

Reason #284 Why The RAV4 is the Best Car Ever, 188.3 miles / 7.199 gallons ~= 26 miles per gallon And yes, that is in rush hour traffic Also, I found a kicking rad shortcut to work. It’s the best shortcut in the history of mankind I would say. It’s so good, I fear just [...]

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