http://www.paulkimbrel.com This, that... Wed, 21 May 2008 05:53:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How do you take down an armed gunman from the KGB? Duct tape over the eyes from behind! I mean... what would you do? http://www.paulkimbrel.com/2008/05/21/macgyver-rocks/ Wow. I really blew it on that last post. I even proof read it a few times. But it was just bad. Bad, bad, bad. I mixed up you're and your. I mixed up buy and by. I mixed up site and sight. ... http://www.paulkimbrel.com/2008/05/09/so-whats-my-problem-anyway/ You can't say you can't do something when you read a story like this... a 78 year old man loses his sight, and then goes on to bowl a perfect game: Blind Bowler Scores Perfect Game It reminds me of what my friend, Steve, who taught me guitar basics, always told ... http://www.paulkimbrel.com/2008/05/09/so-whats-youre-problem/ Okay... big question to you iTunes weenies... why iTunes? In my quest for a pure Open Source system, I got stuck on iTunes since that's been my sole source to buy digital music. But I've never liked the iTunes interface and hated that I couldn't take my ... http://www.paulkimbrel.com/2008/04/18/amazon-mp3s/ I like Windows XP. I really do. But Microsoft seems bent on ditching a decent operating system for Vista despite calls from them to be rational. I've talked to several people about their Vista experience and only two have had favorable results. And, of course, they ... http://www.paulkimbrel.com/2008/04/18/i-think-im-turning-open-source-i-really-think-so/ A while ago, my wife bought me a SanDisk Cruiser 4GB USB flash drive. The thing works pretty well, but for encryption, it uses SanDisk's proprietary U3 software. U3 is nice and all, but it locked me into the Windows platform and I always seemed to have issues ... http://www.paulkimbrel.com/2008/04/14/bye-bye-u3/ In what can be best described as an "Onion" article in real life, the good folks of London are padding their lampposts to prevent people from injuring themselves while texting on their cell phones. Unreal. Padding to Protect Pedestrians I think everyone should be issued a helmet and a padded vest. http://www.paulkimbrel.com/2008/03/07/padded-lampposts-for-text-injuries/ My good friend, Mervin, had a comment to post on my "USD" blog entry. There was so much to it, I thought I'd put it out here as a blog entry: First, I have to say... Yes, Paul is weird. However, I don't want to minimize his fact and ... http://www.paulkimbrel.com/2007/09/27/money-money-money/ Remember that chart I put on my "Amero" post showing the decline of US Dollar (USD) against the Canadian Dollar (CAD)? Well, we've all but hit parity (1 to 1) with the CAD today. The USDCAD currency pair got down to with in 1.0002. That means the ... http://www.paulkimbrel.com/2007/09/20/so-long-usd-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/ And I'm not going tell you who he is. Why? Because my Google ads keep showing his name it ads. And the ads are for auditory signals used to grab your attention when a person is trying to contact you through the radio based telephony device strapped to your ... http://www.paulkimbrel.com/2007/09/11/who-is-this-guy-anyhow/