Net Sieve

Can’t say I’ve seen this freeware before – hope you have some bitchin’ use for it:

The program “Satellite Antenna Alignment” is used to calculate the angles necessary for installing satellite dishes. The main difference from similar software is the possibility to calculate the position for all satellites at once. Thus, you get a clear picture about what satellites can be physically visible from the location where the dish will be installed. It should be kept in mind that the program makes a purely theoretical calculation according to formulas and in real circumstances a lot of additional factors should be taken into account when a satellite dish is installed. These factors include various obstacles (buildings, trees), the landscape, the altitude, transponder orientation, polarization, etc.

Anyone may use this software free of charge for private, non-commercial usage. Knock your satellite selves out.

From what I hear, you can never have too much water. While we may be facing more than we need soon if global warming (natural or otherwise) comes about, the Moon and its future inhabitants are a bit short at the moment.

Of course once you get a decent base set up, you can ferry craft off the moon’s surface much easier than from Earth. Go grab an asteroid or two composed mostly of ice and melt it up there. Mmm good.

Yes! After perusing the New York Yankees Spring Training Schedule for 2008, I’ve found a chance too see them hit it with the Astros up in Houston on March 3. Sweet mama! I’m not exactly your quintessential New Yorker, but I’m not exactly a Texan either and who’s going to pass on a chance to see the real “America’s Team.” (Sorry Cowboys’ fans, but it ain’t them.)

Having faced the likely fact that I’ll never see a real game (who wants that pressure?), training is the place for me to be. Yankees Spring Training tickets are available, the mood in training rocks and I can walk out, zone out, take a nap – whatever – without feeling like I missed anything crucial. Perfect for my new no-stress lifestyle.

Clearly this is not your common cold. Who’s with me in believing that our next president will be a virus? They’re obviously much smarter than the one we have now and they will make war a lot less expensive. The next military industrial complex will focus on producing tissue, vapor rub and decongestants to sell to our enemies at back-breaking prices.

Mind you, this is my Optimistic view of the future. In the real future, they’ll just say screw it and kill us all.

Have a nice day.

P.S. Notice how I restrained myself from any mention of the fact that this strain of super cold chose a military base to attack? Biological warfare is such a myth.

It’s been a few minutes since my last Conspiracy Theory posts, so I naturally couldn’t resist this bit of the news.

Honest to Google, the first thing I thought was “Wow, who would benefit from making ad serving so dangerous? Now, webmasters will have to go through ‘highly trusted’ ad servers like those Google could provide … Wait a minute!”

Now before you think I’ve finally gone the way of the UFO abductionists, think about the Big G’s latest bitch slap to every site that dared to run text link ads that were not Google’s. I say if it walks like a Chupacabra and sucks blood like a Chupacabra, it’s a Chupacabra.

Nerds program a robot to dance … now that is news. How did they know where to begin? Pray god not their old “Thriller” videos. This is like a train wreck. You have to see it no matter how horrifying it is.

I say anything we can make more human-like, the better. And if they follow Asimov’s Three Laws at least we’ll have some decent human-like behavior in the world again. It’s been far too robotic or at the other extreme, animalistic, for some time now.

This stands as the coolest idea evar, but what, this is only the new millennium?

Put your brain and your insatiable hunger for games to good use by helping to provided food for those who have real insatiable hunger. This is so simple … hey, maybe it’s what Google had planned for their ads in video games. And All this time I was insulting them and their charitable intentions.

Gak! (Sorry just choked on my bitter bitter laughter.) Off to play FreeRice.

Now if this doesn’t get you behind the One Laptop Per Child program you’re extremely cold-hearted and evil and/or you work for Microsoft, Google or the RIAA.

Look at those faces. Man, the world just opened up for those kids and they’ll even see their own little chunk of it in a different light. This is one of the coolest projects of the millennium.

Why are investors as jittery as little boys who have to go real bad? If they’re so damn chicken hearted why don’t they just use their money to buy gold and hoard it under the mattress like the good old days?

Is technology on a downturn?

“Why yes, Bob. We expect Americans to turn away from technology within the next week and all major world countries to follow soon after. Meanwhile, look for a sharp upturn in the recycling sector as 30 billion people hasten to rid themselves of high tech appliances.”

Why do I not trust this? Why must I be so cynical?

Oh. Right. It’s Google. Well, at least we know they’ll never use this for evil. What would be the benefit of that?

Oh. Right. It’s Google. I’ve had to create a new blog category for them. See if you can guess which one it is …