Silicon Asylum

Caught this on another blog I read now and then and thought I'd take it myself. It's slightly unfair as there are a few things that are in the "never gonna happen" category. From a UI design point of view I think they should give you the option of stating so and then have a section for standard results (as seen in the first few lines below) and a section refined results (based on the "never gonna happen" selections you made). But that's just me. (Say there were 10 things that fell into my "never gonna happen" set, that'd mean I'd actually score closer to 55%). The Life Experience Test Overall, you have partaken in 87 out of 169 possible life experiences. Your average life experience score is therefore 51% . The average score is 51% , making your experiences more than 46% of the people who have taken this test. The average for your age group (26-35) is 53% . Broken down by category : Art: 6/17 ( 35% ) Career & Work: 7/13

I just ran across this on some forums and was VERY happy to see it. It partially restored my faith in literacy amongst today's youth. Sadly there is actually a minor grammatical error in it but it's still a step in the right direction. Update 20131001 : Seems the image linked above has been removed at some point. As this post is basically 5 years old I'm not 100% sure but I believe it had been the same as:

As some of you may know I have a pretty healthy TV addiction so without further ado here is the fall premiere schedule I've put together. Please feel free to comment if you can think of anything I've missed. (Especially new series). Gossip Girl (CW) Sept 1 8PM Prison Break (Fox) Sept 1 8PM (2 Hours) One Tree Hill (CW) Sept 1 9PM New 90210 (CW) Sept 2 8PM (2 Hours) Bones (Fox) Sept 3 8PM (2 Hours) Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles (Fox) Sept 8 8PM House (Fox) Sept 16 8PM Survivor: Gabon (CBS) Sept 18 8PM Smallville (CW) Sept 18 8PM Big Bang Theory (CBS) Sept 22 8PM Heroes (NBC) Sept 22 9PM (2 Hours) CSI: Miami (CBS) Sept 22 10PM Boston Legal (ABC) Sept 22 10PM NCIS (CBS) Sept 23 8PM Law & Order: SVU (NBC) Sept 23 10PM New Knight Rider (NBC) Sept 24 8PM Criminal Minds (CBS) Sept 24 9PM CSI: NY (CBS) Sept 24 10PM Ugly Betty (ABC) Sept 25 8PM Grey's Anatomy (ABC) Sept 25 9PM (2 Hours) The Office (NBC) Sept 25 9PM ER (NBC) Sept 25 10PM The Amazing Race (CBS) Sept 28 8PM Th

While I was out in Vancouver during the summer someone recommended this little restaurant, I REALLY enjoyed myself and wanted to put my thoughts out there for everyone else. Their website is still under construction (currently just addresses and phone numbers). I dined at the following location: 1479 Robson St, Vancouver Tel: 604-689-4272 When we arrived (we walked from our hotel), we were greeted immediately at the open front door. Once inside the greeter said something in Japanese and all the staff in sight welcomed us (as they did for everyone that came in while we were there). To some this may seem obnoxious but it really wasn't. We were promptly given the choice of a 'normal' (North American) table or a more Asian table (you take your shoes off and put them on a shelf, sit at a low table with room for your legs to dangle). We chose an Asian table (as we would have had to wait for normal table. We'd previously gone out for Sushi at another place so we tried for the

A colleague of mine sent this along yesterday: Are you a computer security professional? It's a very accurate description of me and basically everyone I work with directly, kind of scary that it's so close actually.

I came across a neat little screencast that covers a bunch of the new features in Firefox (about 4 mins long). If you're a fan and haven't installed a beta or release candidate you might wanna check it out. Maybe even if you have installed the beta you'll wanna check it out as it can give you some tips that you may not know.

* Hancock . Will smith, dysfunctional comic book superhero movie. Just caught a commercial for this one last night while watching TV, looks pretty good.

As some of you may know I do work involving IT Security for a living. To make my life easy I often use BackTrack . BackTrack is a Linux LiveCD that includes a whole load of IT Security tools (nmap, kismet, nikto...100s of tools). As with many online communities these days they offer forums for their users to ask questions etc. What amazes me is the sheer idiocy of some of the people we get on the forums. I can completely understand that lots of people want to been a l33t h4x0rs. But SERIOUSLY...WTF PEOPLE! For every good post (someone with a decent technical question or someone that wants to share something cool) there are 20 posts from truly clueless individuals, like: "If i Don`t have any clients connected to my wep ...." WTF are people doing trying to crack WEP and "test" Wireless Access Points, if they don't even know how the freaking things work.....actually strike that not how they work but just the basics of the terminology surrounding the thing. You d

Looks like I missed some notable ones: * X-Files 2: I Want to Believe . (Downloadable trailers here and other info here .) * Journey to the Cener of the Earth . Based on the Jules Verne classic.

Note: I've linked to Apple's trailers, the links are likely to become invalid over time. Just google the movie names and you'll find the official sites. * Wanted This one was completely unknown to me until this morning. Angelina Jolie & Morgan Freeman in an awesome Mr. & Mrs. Smith meets Transporter kinda flic. * Mongol . The Genghis Khan story. * Hulk . * Indiana Jones - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . * Hellboy 2 - The Golden Army . * IronMan . Starts tonight (2 May 2008). * Bangkok Dangerous . Nicholas Cage plays an assassin in Thailand. * Get Smart . Action comedy remake of the classic series with Maxwell Smart and Agent 99. * WALL*E . Pixar's next, about a little lonely robot. * The Spiderwick Chronicles . I just found this on Apple's site, however it says Feb 2008 and I don't recall seeing it in previews or commercials. The official site says DVD June 24. * Batman - The Dark Knight .

http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2007/06/salary_comparison It loads a flash animation...move the slider left/right. Gist: 1970 - CEOs made 28 times more than average workers. 2005 - CEOs made 465 times more than average workers. Gouge!

Homonyms are words that are similar, but have different meanings. Examples of homonyms include: two/to/too, accept/except, and there/their/they're. All of which I have no problem with. The one that always catches me is affect/effect. I've tried to google up some simple rules but haven't had much luck. According to YourDictionary.com there are 5 rules for their use. Including 2. It is appropriate to use the word "effect" if one of these words is used immediately before the word: into, no, take, the, any, an, or and. As if I'm ever going to remember that (along with 4 others) while I'm writing a document. Some people say it's simple. That "affect" should deal with influence while "effect" should deal with result or causality. But to me that doesn't clarify it sufficiently, sometimes something can be interpreted as both resultant and causal. For example, I had to send an email this morning with the following line: Not to mention

I'm a big fan of Numb3rs which is usually on Friday nights, the good news is it's now back with new episodes (post-writers guild strike). It looks like CBS has put together a spoof on Apple's PC vs. Mac commercials. I found it kinda amusing so I thought I'd post it.

Found this great collection online today and thought I'd pass it along. Freaky Light Graffiti Gonna have to play with this concept a little over the summer with my new DSLR.

I've NEVER seen anything like this before. You know you goto parties and there's always an annoying person that has to make their crystal wine cup sing but that's just completely annoying and ear breaking compared to this. It's safe for work. Just watch it. You'll need headphones. Crazy Crystal Glass Music Making

I found this amusing so I thought I'd pass it along. Gallery of trees "eating" things , you know if you leave something on/against a tree long enough the tree will claim it as it's very own. I really liked the motorbike and Christmas light pics. The bike doesn't loot that old but it's leaning against one of those crazy fast growing tropical trees.

For anyone geeky enough to care, NOAA is reporting that Solar Cycle 24 has begun (as of Jan 4th). This means that solar activity (storms, flares, wind etc.) is now on the up-swing. The solar activity maximum is expected around 2011/2012. For anyone that doesn't know solar storms can seriously mess with our little planet by disrupting satellite communications, power grids ( MTL 1989 ), etc. For all the latest greatest on astronomical events which might affect us check out spaceweather.com .

Well it's a New Year so I'm going to start with a new rant. I hate the forward button, I understand it's place in the evolution of email etc. but it seems that the only time I hear from certain relatives is when they're taken in by a stupid forward/chain email they got. This time of year there seems to be a reoccurring one suggesting that people should refrain from purchasing gas on a particular day. You know the email, I'm sure you've seen it. Basically it states that if everyone refuses to buy gas on a certain date it will cost the oil/gas companies so many 10s of millions to billions of dollars. Here's a few reasons why these forwards/chain mails are complete stupidity. The calculations are always wrong. 1) Yes, there are ~33.3million Canadians, but guess what? NOT ALL OF THEM DRIVE. Even if we assume the entire population between 15 and 64 drives that's only ~23million. Now what happens to that ~23million if we remove say 10% for public transit, 10%