I get a kick out of oddities on eBay. A story on ZDNet today noted that the United States Postal Service now auctions off undeliverable packages using the eBay site. I found a listing of just the "miscellaneous items" that the USPS has to offer. They also have categories for Books, CDs, Movies, and Collectibles. Fantastic.... so if you're missing a Christmas or Birthday gift, maybe you can bid on one.

I can't believe that I finally added a new chip to my PC two months ago for a bit of a performance boost -- an 850 MHz -- and Intel has 1.7 GHz chips on the market. This is out of control.

The wintry season is just about over. Most of the resorts in Colorado shut down this weekend, so I guess that means I can focus on other things that were on the back burner for a while. I think I have to finish my lamp soon -- it hasn't really been mentioned here, but I'll have pictures soon.

"Colonize.com is a leading email publishing company providing unique content publications that are enjoyed by millions of readers every day."

Yeah, sure.

I was recently subscribed to Colonize .... not on my own, however. A good friend of mine signed me up. I think she signed me up for every single newsletter that Colonize publishes.

"Colonize.com is a leading email publishing company providing unbelieveable amounts of spam to your email address and despite initial efforts to unsubscribe, you'll probably be stuck with our crap for quite some time."

My first attempt met a message that read something like this: "Due to the large amounts of traffic that we receive at Colonize.com, it may take up to 3 or 4 days to remove your address from our mailing list." It certainly did. I was still receiving email this morning when I decided to unsubscribe again.

"Colonize.com receives over 11 million unique visitors and sends over 250 million opt-in emails every month."

It's a really good thing that Colonize.com authenticates your email address, because just about anyone could sign up for their service and put your email on the list. Just look at me!

Microsoft just announced today that the next version of Windows (XP) will not natively support the new USB standard, version 2.0. Instead, MS will use the FireWire standard that was developed by Apple. The story was from ZDNet and noted that around the release of Windows 98, a demonstration of USB at a tech show caused Windows to crash while Bill Gates and another MS developer were demonstrating the technology. I looked around today to find a movie clip from the event.

Here is the movie for your viewing enjoyment.

So NorthPoint goes bankrupt, and I lose my DSL service for about a week. I'm not paying for this shit to just break, you know.