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The Fail Blog

Ron — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:31:41 +0000

Very funny site highlighting failure all around us.

http://failblog.wordpress.com/

COD:4

Ron — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:02:05 +0000

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare is the best multiplayer FPS ever. If you happen to play, drop me a line.

Halloween Cocktail Party

Ron — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:12:52 +0000

Cocktail

party to celebrate Halloween. Pictures below…

Go Ahead, Make My Day!

Ron — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:29:53 +0000

Greetings from Jackson Arms [visit] gun range in sunny San Francisco, CA!

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Birthday Calculator

Ron — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:43:01 +0000

Just type in your date of birth and find out some useless facts about your birthday.

Go Here!

The Story Behind These Company Names

Ron — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:21:20 +0000

Adobe - Came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server -– thus, the name Apache.

Apple Computers - Steve Jobs was three months late in filing a name for the business because he didn’t get any better name for his new company. So one day he told to the staff: “If I’ll not get better name by 5 o’clock today, our company’s name will be anything he likes…” So at 5 o’clcok nobody come up with better name, and he was eating Apple that time… so he keep the name of the company ‘Apple Computers’.

CISCO - Its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco.

Google - The name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders – Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page resented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’

Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett, and the winner was NOT Bill…the winner was Dave.

Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics = INTEL

Lotus (Notes) - Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ‘The Lotus Position’ or ‘Padmasana’. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft - Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-‘ was removed later on.

Motorola - Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE - Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). Acronym for: One Real A****** Called Larry Ellison??

Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

SAP - “Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing”, formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the ‘Systems/Applications/Projects’ group of IBM.

Sony - From the Latin word ’sonus’ meaning sound, and ’sonny’ a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN - Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say dry’ (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root `xer‘ means dry.

Yahoo! - The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

(SOURCE: http://www.blogiseverything.com/factoids/the-story-behind-these-company-names)

George Costanza’s 10 Commandments for Working Hard

Ron — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:27:59 +0000

1. Never walk without a document in your hands
People with documents in their hands look like hardworking employees heading for important meetings. People with nothing in their hands look like they’re heading for the cafeteria. People with a newspaper in their hand look like they’re heading for the toilet. Above all, make sure you carry loads of stuff home with you at night, thus generating the false impression that you work longer hours than you do.

2. Use computers to look busy
Any time you use a computer, it looks like “work” to the casual observer. You can send and receive personal e-mail, chat and generally have a blast without doing anything remotely related to work. These aren’t exactly the societal benefits that the proponents of the computer revolution would like to talk about but they’re not bad either. When you get caught by your boss - and you *will* get caught — your best defense is to claim you’re teaching yourself to use new software, thus saving valuable training dollars.

3. Messy desk
Top management can get away with a clean desk. For the rest of us, it looks like we’re not working hard enough. Build huge piles of documents around your workspace. To the observer, last year’s work looks the same as today’s work; it’s volume that counts. Pile them high and wide. If you know somebody is coming to your cubicle, bury the document you’ll need halfway down in an existing stack and rummage for it when he/she arrives.

4. Voice Mail
Never answer your phone if you have voice mail. People don’t call you just because they want to give you something for nothing - they call because they want YOU to do work for THEM. That’s no way to live. Screen all your calls through voice mail. If somebody leaves a voice mail message for you and it sounds like impending work, respond during lunch hour when you know they’re not there - it looks like you’re hardworking and conscientious even though you’re being a devious weasel.

5. Looking Impatient and Annoyed
According to George Costanza, one should also always try to look impatient and annoyed to give your bosses the impression that you are always busy.

6. Leave the office late
Always leave the office late, especially when the boss is still around. You could read magazines and storybooks that you always wanted to read but have no time until late before leaving. Make sure you walk past the boss’ room on your way out. Send important emails at unearthly hours (e.g. 9:35pm, 7:05am, etc.) and during public holidays.

7. Creative Sighing for Effect
Sigh loudly when there are many people around, giving the impression that you are under extreme pressure.

8. Stacking Strategy
It is not enough to pile lots of documents on the table. Put lots of books on the floor etc. (thick computer manuals are the best).

9. Build Vocabulary
Read up on some computer magazines and pick out all the jargon and new products. Use the phrases freely when in conversation with bosses. Remember: They don’t have to understand what you say, but you sure sound impressive.

10. MOST IMPORTANT:
DON’T forward this to your boss by mistake!!!

Jim Poserina’s Project 50

Ron — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:25:53 +0000

Project 50 is one man’s quest to see the United States of America. That man is Jim Poserina.Written by Jim Poserina of JimPoz.com:

The Project began on a sunny afternoon in June of 1999 in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. I was walking down Park Street with my best friend Vanya Cohen when, all of a sudden, I turned to him and said, “Hey V, take my picture. I’m going to take a picture of myself in front of all 50 state capitols.” And thus Project 50 was launched.

Successful completion of the Project requires 100 photographs: 50 state capitols, 50 state welcome signs. As of August 2003, I have taken 69: 33 state capitols, 36 state welcome signs.

About Me

I am 27 years old and a 1998 graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in history and political science, and twenty credits short of a B.S. in computer science. I was recently laid off by AT&T where I was a webmaster and lab administrator in Middletown, NJ. I’m a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, Alpha Phi Omega fraternity, and Mensa (not to mention AAA).

Check it out

Happy Easter

Ron — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:27:08 +0000

Happy Easter to all. Our bunny friend here is happy to see you again this year.

Happy Freakin Easter from Fred the Easter Bunny

Do you wear striped shirts?

Ron — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:31:17 +0000

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen on the web. If you ever wore a striped button down shirt, then this is for you.

Click here for the link