Windows share icon in Leopard is “Blue Screen of Death”.

ROFL. Classic. Go Apple.

Bank Logic

Is it just me, or do banks suck? Situation this:

I went to the bank today deposit a check that a client gave me. I deposit said check into my account. The teller, while processing the check tells me there will be a hold.

“That is fine,” I say, “how long will it be?”.
“friday” she replies.
Today is wednesday…
“I really would prefer the money sooner, it would be nice if I could get that cleared early. Is there any reason that I can not just have it cleared faster?”
“Hold on please, I can ask my manager..” she says while walking towards the back room.
10 minutes go by and she returns.
“We can have it cleared, but since there is a hold on it you will need to call in two days to see if we can clear it then.”
Keeping in mind today is wednesday, two days would be friday which is the initial day she told me the hold would be lifted.
I reply, “That would be friday.. right?”
“Correct”
“Friday is the day that you told me the check would clear initially… so.. I can put the check in now and wait until friday, or.. I can give you the check and then give you a call on friday and see if you can clear it then since I asked you if you can clear it sooner.. correct?”
“Correct” came the reply.
“…. and.. you do not see a problem with this logic?” I asked.
“What logic?”
It was at that point I turned and left the bank.

Yay. All the content is back.

I have restored all the previous posts and the permalinks. The only things that are missing are the images, but I do not have another copy of them with me. I will have to locate them in the original forms… which.. probably will not happen. Otherwise, everything content and category wise is back up. I am going to have to update the template to support pages and comments later.

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Guerilla CCTV Movies and Cheap Mobile Recording Equipment

So I saw this article a little while ago on digg… and I thought the film was a bit boring, but overall a very cool idea. There are tons of CCTV devices out there, and nearly all are operating on the same narrow spectrum, 2400MHz to 2483MHz. I knew this forever, but it did not click until now that I could possibly use a little portable Sony Watchman tv, CCTV Receiver and Battery pack to walk around and sniff out cameras for the specific purpose of guerilla movie making.

I am well familiar with sniffing wireless signals of all kinds. I used to have a specially modded Cobra scanner to pick up crazy goodies in NY. Cellular and cordless phones, beeper and pager signals, police and city works, street light control radio boxes, all kinds of crazy stuff…. anyway.

I have seen a ton of different cheap receivers on the market. Swann offers a wide assortment of wireless camera products. They are pretty cool, but they are kind of expensive. While poking about their site I saw a new product that I did not see a while back, the Mobile Viewer.

Awesome!

This baby has 4 channels, (the common ones) a dock(charger), 3+ hrs battery life at continuous use a “scan” mode so that you do not have to manually change channels, and also an audio/video out port so that you can hook it into a recording device.

Downside is that this thing is around $200. :( I kept looking around, it would seem as though Swann products are manufactured in China (like everything else) and there are a couple other places that “source” the same product under a different name.

Bingo.

4UCam has a series of products that are using the same source vendor. Yea, they are multicolored, but nothing that some spray paint can not fix. Hell, who cares.. maybe you like baby blue, or bust me orange. There is also a black model, but it seems harder to find. The monitor itself is $89.99. That is more like it!

Now I just have to find $89.99 to burn.. then I will hack a whip antenna into it.

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Stupid Chicken!

This one is fo jilla tha thrilla dilla.

(we miss u ze.) :{(