I usually reserve my rants for twitter, but I found this situation pretty interesting.  Not everyone, but a good portion of people use twitter now.  Through the huge popularity of twitter escalated short urls.  Okay, to my situation.

I saw the movie “The Hangover” last night, and it was so funny….I will probably see it 3 times before it comes to DVD.  Since I live my life in constant movie quotes I posted one of the quotes to twitter, “Tigers love pepper…..They hate cinnamon”.  No big deal, but then I received a reply from someone who I do not follow and this person does not follow me.  I check the twitter profile, as I always do, and it seems it is a spam account.  They are advertising some url using a short url, lucky for me I have a short url expander plugin for Firefox.  Their url is http://****vegastrips.com/thehangover. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re like me, you go through jump drives like mad.  I am forced to get a new jump drive every 6 months, because my pockets destroy everything that isn’t made of solid steel.  My phones take a beating, but that’s a different story.  I was browsing Life Hacker, as I do daily, and I noticed a key shaped jump drive.  Sure enough it is a flash drive made by LaCie.
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