I’ve always been a little curious about brandy, so Friday night after work I stopped at the BevMo by my house and picked up a bottle and two snifters. Don’t get me wrong – I loves my gins and tonicses. I doubt I’ll ever tire of a properly-balanced well-mixed, G&T. But at the same time…

If you live within their coverage area, DSLExtreme is offering killer promo pricing on a 6000/608 package. Try $60 a month! If I wasn’t stuck in a year-long contract with SBC, I’d jump on this. Of course your actual speed will depend on line conditions, but zippy and affordable DSL packages like this will really…

It looks like Valve will not rest until the pilferer of the Half Life 2 source code is identified and put behind bars. The FBI has started serving search warrants on people who are thought to have had some involvement with the operation.

Last night I watched the Berlin episode of VH1’s Bands Reunited. It was awesome. The premise of the show is this – VH1 sends the host of the show around the world looking for the remaining members of popular 80s bands. He has seven days to convince all of the members to get back together…

The official Mary Blair website is nice, even though there’s not much to it.

This was just sent to me- While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. Now, while doing this, draw the number “6” in the air with your right hand. Your right foot will change direction — and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Talk about obsessive. This guy bought an 01 and then an 04 Prius. You’d never be able to tell by looking at his website. Hah. Prius Info/Bluetooth is super cool. Prius Photos/Photo Album 4 shows the old-style screen displays. The newer ’04 displays are in “Photo Album 61”. What a huge difference!

Trillian was upgraded to 2.01 this week. Non-registered users can grab it at the usual place.

If you’re really in love with WinAmp5’s default skin, “Modern,” now you can make all of Windows XP look like it. Pretty spiff.

My dad’s going in for hip replacement surgery tomorrow morning. He has been in pain for years and I’m glad he’ll finally be able to get some relief. Unfortunately this means that he’ll never ever have a smooth trip through airport security checkpoints again. The procedure is usually over in just two or three hours,…