TechTV ran this story about how to build a stun gun out of a cheap disposable camera. The flash capacitor seems to store enough charge to seriously hurt anyways. Very cool! New project to work on.

VB.Net offers some somewhat peculiar behavior for handling divide by zero calculations. Most languages I work with will throw a “DivideByZero” exception in the case you do x/0. VB.Net, if you are working with floating point numbers, no longer does this. VB.Net now returns Infinity for x/0 (x>0), -Infinity for x/0 (x<0) and NaN for ...

Anji sent me a link to this E-Bay lot that is rather amusing. It’s some guy selling his ex-wife’s wedding dress on E-Bay. The funny part is that he is modeling it. It’s really funny because the guy is pretty big and has several tattoes. He’s also got about 600,000 hits and counting and replies ...

Back in the old days of BBS’s, QWK and Bluewave taglines were all the rage. I’ve compiled one huge (~440,000) list here of them just because.

For my camera I bought an M42 adapter which lets me use older Pentax screw mount lenses on my Minolta AF body. This is nice since I rarely use AF and having to pay the big bucks for low end Minolta AF lenses is a bit frustrating. I’d rather be able to buy older cheaper ...