Last weekend, I was driving through the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle and noticed a crazy billboard with the slogan “Open your snack hole” and almost veered off the road.
Turns out, this crazy ad campaign is for McDonald’s. 

(picture courtesy of uneasysilence.com)
What makes this even funnier is the McDonald’s slogan “i’m loving’ it” in the bottom left corner.
Coincidentally, I [...]

Paypal is one of the most frequently phished sites on the since the risk-reward ratio is so high for attackers.  By harvesting only a few accounts, attackers get can get access to real money. Compare this to phishing for email account which hardly have any direct monetary value.
While these attacks are hardly untraceable, it has a definite real impact [...]

Many people, including me, that bought a Samsung Blackjack when they were just released didn’t get the extended battery and cover.  Looks like Cingular/AT&T must have got a lot of complaints because they’re now giving them away for free for those “customers dissatisfied with battery life”!  These are the terms:

Extended battery is also available as a [...]

The NoFollow attribute for all user generated content was originally intended to combat blog spam.   The theory was that a spammer could increase their page rank very easily on search engines by spam commenting hundreds of blogs.  By adding a NoFollow attribute automatically to user contributed content, we would enable search engines like Google and [...]

Even though I got Vista to work with my Sony SZ notebook (VGN-SZ381p), my machine has still unstable due to the beta drivers I was using. 
Thankfully, Sony finally released non-beta versions of all their utilities and drivers.  Since some of the Sony utilities depend on others to be install beforehand, the install order is critical.  I [...]