http://billeberly.com Witty Comment Here! Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:17:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After my car got broken into a few weeks ago, I started worrying about one of most precious possessions: my laptop. After a few hours of hacking I came up with this script called Bacon (beacon was too obvious), which sends the laptop's current IP address and some other info ... http://billeberly.com/2008/laptop-theft-protection-with-bacon So you might have noticed that my site disappeared for a while. I was on a sympathy strike with the Writer's Guild, and I'm finally back to blogging now that that everything is settled. In fact, I was so sympathetic that I started my strike 5 months before they did. ... http://billeberly.com/2008/back-to-work Thank you Meriam Webster for adding ginormous to the dictionary, so people can stop telling me that it's not a word. http://billeberly.com/2007/new-words I've tried to avoid ranting about politics on here, but this time Fox news has gone too far. "That man...did a whole generation a disservice" Of course, they're talking about the evil Mr. Rogers http://billeberly.com/2007/fox-news Someone should come up with an "away message" type feature for cell phones. Instead of having to do all the complicated stuff to change your voice mail message, you should just be able to hit a button and say "I'm in a meeting, I'll be back in 30 mins" or ... http://billeberly.com/2007/cool-idea-for-cell-phones I would like to extend my most sincere thanks to the Cherokee clothing company for creating size 31x30 pants and Target for selling them. For the first time in quite a while I can actually buy pants that fit me. http://billeberly.com/2007/gratitude The 2nd version of my Beryl theme "Dark and Nameless" is out. You can download it here. Here's a couple screenshots: http://billeberly.com/2007/beryl-theme God bless the USA http://billeberly.com/2007/mc-rove