I wrote a Java based file copy utility that works kinda like windows xcopy or robocopy, but faster. Check it out.

Ben invited his mother over for dinner. During the meal, his mother couldn’t help noticing how beautiful Ben’s roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between Ben and his roommate and this only made her more curious.

Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Ben and the roommate than met the eye. Reading his mom’s thoughts, Ben volunteered, “I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Allison and I are just roommates.”

About a week later, Allison came to Ben and said, “Ever since your mother came to dinner, I’ve been unable to find the beautiful silver gravy ladle. “You don’t suppose she took it, do you?”

Ben said, “Well, I doubt it, but I’ll write her a letter just to be sure.”

So he sat down and wrote: “Dear Mother, I’m not saying you ‘did’ take a gravy ladle from my house, and I’m not saying you ‘did not’ take a gravy ladle. But the fact remains that one has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.”

Several days later, Ben received a letter from his mother which read:

“Dear Son, I’m not saying that you ‘do’ sleep with Allison, and I’m not saying that you ‘do not’ sleep with Allison. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her own bed, she would have found the gravy ladle by now. Love, Mom”

“What happened?” asked the hospital visitor to the heavily bandaged man sitting up in bed.

“Well, I went down to Margate at the weekend and decided to take a ride on the roller coaster. As we came up to the top of the highest loop, I noticed a little sign by the side of the track. I tried to read it but it was very small and I couldn’t make it out. I was so curious that I decided to go round again, but we went by so quickly that I couldn’t see what the sign said. By now, I was determined to read that sign so I went round a third time. As we reached the top, I stood up in the car to get a better view.”

“And did you manage to see what the sign said this time?” asked the visitor.

“Yes.”

“What did it say?”

“Don’t stand up in the car!”

One of my relatives sent this joke to me… it’s pretty good…

My pregnant daughter and her husband were checking out a new birth facility that was more like a spa.

The birthing room had a hot tub, soft music, and candlelight. “What do you think?” she asked.

He looked around. “Isn’t this how we got here in the first place?”

So, I’ve acquired my first Fox movie that had a “Digital Copy”, Juno. I picked up the more expensive version of the movie to try out the digital copy functionality as a point of curiosity.

Having experienced it, all I have to see is wow… now that’s what I’m talking about. With the exception of maybe not actually wasting a disk and allowing it to be downloaded instead, the Digital Copy functionality that Fox is providing is totally what I’ve been hoping for. Interestingly enough, apparently even their Blu-Ray movies have the Digital Copy. I like it. That would allow me to buy the Blu-Ray movie (without having a Blu-Ray player) and still watch the movie on my Mac, iPhone, or AppleTV, knowing that I’m going to get a Blu-Ray player at some point. The reason why I say this (and one of the reasons I liked HD-DVD so much) is because when I typically buy a movie, I rip it to my computer so I have a version of it that I can play on my computer, iPhone, and AppleTV. I would either get the DVD version or the HD-DVD version (if it was a combo format), and then that would allow me to have a high-def version, and also a portable version.
With Digital Copy, that saves me from having to do that. I just pop the Digital Copy version of the Disk in…

…go through a few steps…

…and voila! I have a movie file on my computer.

The plus side to this is the resulting movie is actually DVD resolution instead of being limited to 640×480 (or some crop of that for a widescreen picture), no instead, it’s 853×480 (or in the case of Juno, 853×461 because it’s 1.85:1). Here’s a size comparison of an iTunes Store purchased movie and Juno, which is from the Digital Copy Disk.

I have to say that as long as Digital Copy is compatible with iPod/iPhone/AppleTV, AND available on Blu-Ray versions of Fox Movies, I am totally willing to shell out a little extra money. It saves me from ripping it for the DVD version, or buying/renting a DVD version to rip if I have a Blu-Ray version. The money spent is worth saving a few hours of time.

Now if only other studios will start doing the same thing.

Well, my 2007 taxes have been filed. I think I’ve finally gotten it all figured out in how to just about break even because this is the first year that I’ve actually just about broken even.

For my Federal, I got a couple hundred back, for my State, I owe about half of what my Federal return is, and I owe about what I owe on my State for prepping my taxes and filing electronically with TurboTax.com.

By the time it’s all said and done, and everybody has been paid, I’ll be ahead by about $5 or so.

I’m just glad I don’t owe.

Ok, so I’ve gotten my Macbook Pro wiped with a fresh install of 10.5 (and patched up to 10.5.2), and then got the new Time Capsule in place (which replaced my old Linksys 802.11G Wifi router that was getting flakey).

I’ve gotten Time Machine running (which for the most part works as advertised), but I’ve got a little problem. When I have a lot of data that changes between Time Machine back-ups and it takes a while for Time Machine to copy every thing over (over the 802.11 draft-n network), I get this little window that pops up.

I don’t get the point of it or even why it’s even happening. If the problem was resolved without any action on my part, then why do I keep getting this stupid box pop up? For a notification, it’s a really crappy way of letting me know. If I click on “Continue” it takes me to the configuration screens, which I don’t want because I’ve already configured it and don’t want to re-configure it. Besides, the thermals of the unit shouldn’t even be something I can control. It should just work and if it over-heats then tell me in a manner that’s way more intuitive than that, other-wise don’t tell me at all unless I ask for it.

Anyway, here’s how it’s installed, I don’t see how it could be overheating, as there’s nothing on it or around it and it is in a fairly well ventilated area.

Anybody have any ideas? As of the last time I checked, I’m patched up to the latest versions of everything.

Well, it looks like my Time Capsule is about to be shipped.

Once I get it in place, I’ll start prepping to upgrade to Leopard, then get the Apple TV.

I really need the extra 1TB that will come with the Time Capsule. My current 400GB hard drive I currently use for backups is totally out of space.

Update: I checked my credit card I used, and it has been charged, so if all goes well, it will ship on the 29th like it says.

Update Again: It’s been shipped.

Last Update: I’ve received it.

A man appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates.

“Have you ever done anything of particular merit?” St.Peter asked.

“Well, I can think of one thing,” the man offered.

“On a trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota, I came upon a gang of bikers who were threatening a young woman. I directed them to leave her alone, but they wouldn’t listen.

So, I approached the largest and most heavily tattooed biker and smacked him in the face, kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring, and
threw it on the ground. I yelled, “Now, back off, or I’ll kick the shit out of all of you!”

St. Peter was impressed.. “When did this happen?”

“…Couple of minutes ago.”

An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her hand gun, proceeding to scream at the top of her lungs, “I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!”

The four men didn’t wait for a second threat. They got out and ran like mad.

The lady, somewhat shaken, proceeded to load her bags into the back of the car and got into the driver’s seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition.

She tried and tried, and then she realized why. It was for the same reason that she wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee and two twelve packs of beer in the front seat next to her.

A few minutes later, she found her own car, parked not more than four or five space down.

She loaded her bags into her car and drove to the police station to report her mistake.

The sergeant to whom she told her story could not stop laughing.

He pointed down to the end of the counter, where four pale men where reporting a car-jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun.

No charges where filed.

If you’re going to have a senior moment, at least make it a memorable one.