Kinda makes you want to cry

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

Great cartoon on the Credit Crisis

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Sweet article on the Game of Life.

Dr. Dobb's | An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time | April 1, 2006

Baby Names

My wife and I are thinking about possible names for the bouncing baby boy we are expecting in May, we have put some of our options in a poll. Help us out by selecting your favorites.

Updating XP to MCE

I used a XP to MCE converter. I didn't follow the directions exactly in that I didn't burn the disk to a CD and boot it, but rather just ran the CD off of MagicIO. The problem occurred when I went to do the Step 4 Roll Up. It claimed it will only run on a verion of MCE, which I wasn't...

Turns out you have to modify a registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\MediaCenter\Installed <ref> and change it from a dword to a string... (at least for my setup, installed XP from a VLK build...).

Well of course you can't just go into regedit and change it. So I had to dl Offline NT Password and Reg Editor. Not the prettiest thing in the world, but it did eventually work. I had to delete the existing key and create another one with the same name, but a String. Then edit the value to 1.

It appears to be working now, yeah!

Baby names and politics

Couldn't help but put this up.  Pretty interesting correspondence, not that surprising though.

Red and Blue Baby Naming: Inauguration 2009 Edition | The Baby Name Wizard

Good advise on resume writting.

Make your resume not suck!