I sent Google an email asking them to use KITT. I guess that purchasing the rights to KnightRider would be too expensive. Oh well.

What is your chess rating?

The world is flat; it only appears to be round, because it is periodic. :)

I used to help out with a chess organization's website. We had a bulletin board; however, I modified the verification code to ignore the input from the captcha. I added a paragraph instructing the potential user to search the site for the answer to a question. We went from 3 - 5 malicious accounts per day down to 0 since that was implemented.

I've noticed that right after an Apple spec update, their prices are similar to their competitors' products in the same class; However, during the year the other manufacturers drop prices or update more frequently than does Apple. If one does this comparison 6 months from now Apple will be collecting a tax.

I used to work in a call center for a credit card company as an IT guy. One of my colleagues found a better job; however, he could use the extra cash and offered to work part time nights for the credit agency; well, one of the big boss men in the building said no, because he only gave a week's notice. Thus the boss man questioned his loyalty to the company. Even though my friend had about a week to go, I didn't see him again; however, I did about pee on myself when the big boss man boomed through the IT office door. He was red as could be. His only words were "Where's DONNY!" He left the IT office and stormed through the building looking for him. Donny had hightailed it out of there long before then. Donny found a thank you letter from the boss man on a public share drive. Anyone in the company could have seen it. The thank you letter was for a competitor of ours. Donny took it upon himself to forward that letter to everyone in the building and to everyone at corporate. (My IT manager made me delete the email before I could read it.) Donny called eventually and told us that it read something like the following, "All, I'd just like to point out the loyalty to our company that Mr. X. Attached is a letter that he wrote to Company Y." You all are probably thinking what a riot. The funniest part is yet to come. Evidently, Mr. Boss man was really good at what he did, so a few months later he received a huge promotion from the company. I so wanted to tell Steve, "I guess you should be sending Donny a thank you letter, huh?"