Apparently, your body isn’t the only thing being benefited by a moderate exercise regimen. It appears that exercise makes you smarter. While most of these studies were done on rats and mice, they suggest that working out generates neurochemicals that help damaged brain cells and help grow and nuture healthy ones. The article also suggests […]

Not much of interest has been going on recently. I’ve been up to my same old tricks, working on projects at home and still seeking employment. My Firefox extension has been on hold in recent weeks and will continue to be until atlas is up and running again, which should be soon if I can […]

I decided I was going to use swaret to upgrade atlas (which ran Slackware 10.0). However, the upgrade was less than successful. At first, I only thought that, for some strange and unknown reason, that most of the upgrades failed. Well, a couple days later, Sharon couldn’t log into atlas because of an error in […]

The best commercial from Super Bowl XL had to have been the MasterCard commercial with Macgyver. Why? Because it’s Macgyver. And stuff blew up. Enough said.
Oh yeah, the game was pretty good, too. It didn’t quite live up to its extra-large moniker, but I’ve seen plenty worse.
EDIT: Not Citi, MasterCard. And now you can see […]

Yesterday, I was having lunch with a friend of mine, and the subject of my current state of unemployment came up. He then asked whether I had read Steve Jobs’ commencement address at Stanford from this past year. In replying no, he said that he would provide me with a copy, and, sure enough, he […]

I just heard on CNBC that the U.S. is beginning negotiations with South Korea to establish a free trade agreement. The Bush Administration, for all the things that they’ve done wrong (and about which I’ve complained fervently) in the past five years, has been doing one thing right — promoting free trade. During Bush’s first […]