http://geekyweekly.com My life as a computer/photo/sound/book/music/movie geek Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:37:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Washington Mutual's fall was quick and painful. The bank's stock was down like 95% with a market cap of $2 billion and a couple hundred billion in outstanding loans so there's no surprise they failed. What does surprise me is how quick they went down. I opened a checking account ... http://geekyweekly.com/2008/epic-wamu-fail How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett Good job politicians, kill a bill in committee that could have helped avoid the meltdown of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Anyone know if the California budget got signed yet. Last I saw the Democrats agreed to remove their hairbrain schemes of ... http://geekyweekly.com/2008/how-the-democrats-created-the-financial-crisis Company of Heroes is a WW2 real time strategy game that was released in September 2006 and its standalone expansion Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts was released in September 2007. I won't go into a lot of detail, but if you are a gamer then you must play this game ... http://geekyweekly.com/2008/company-of-heroes-pc-game-review Salon.com | Fresh blood for the vampire. I probably wouldn't normally agree or even read the writings of a self proclaimed feminist, but her insights into the current election and Democrats are interesting. The only really wacky thing she goes into is her belief that abortion is our way of defying ... http://geekyweekly.com/2008/feminist-camille-paglias-take-on-sarah-palin-and-the-democratic-party The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. can't have So Ford is complaining that they can't bring a good fuel efficient car to the US because of the barrier diesel presents. You know what, if you advertise a car that gets 65 mpg, the public isn't going to care what it ... http://geekyweekly.com/2008/the-rest-of-the-world-uses-diesel-why-cant-we Obama: "I'm Not Going to Take Your Guns Away" He tells a group of workers at a Pennsylvania glass factory that he wouldn't take away any of their guns even if he had the votes in Congress and just wants to keep them out of the hands of gang bangers and ... http://geekyweekly.com/2008/obama-on-gun-control-for-some-reason-i-dont-feel-reassured I have the priveledge of sitting in cube land and I get to overhear many enlightening conversations. Several times a week I'll hear rants about how stupid and evil Bush is. Just heard someone make a big deal about Cindy McCain being the same age as John's sons from his ... http://geekyweekly.com/2008/shouting-across-the-cubicle-aisle No, they are. Just a little comparison I saw on Drudge: Anybody ever seen the media portray Obama in a negative light? Think they'll do a follow up story on why Sarah loves her husband? http://geekyweekly.com/2008/mainstream-media-not-biased If you've never opened up a computer case in your life then you can pretty much just ignore this post. I had been running an old WD 250gb SATA HD and an even older Seagate 200gb IDE HD and was starting to run out of room. WD and Seagate both recently ... http://geekyweekly.com/2008/computer-upgrades If you subscribe to my comments feed you probably see all the comments related to my plugins. Over the past 2  years I've had a thousand comments and probably at least another thousand emails exchanged with Wordpress users. I must have found a pretty good niche with my ordering plugins ... http://geekyweekly.com/2008/wordpress-plugin-popularity