Fellow BSG fans - Halloween is coming up in a few days, so Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories (love the name ;P) shows you how to make your very own Cylon Jack-O-Lantern, complete with the awesome red scanning eye.

Check out the video clip on YouTube. I think they should try to slow down the lights for even more authenticity. ;)

(P.S. Last week's episode rocked!)

If you miss appointments every year because you forget about those darn Daylight Saving Time changes, or if you wonder whether the clocks should move forward or back in the Fall, you'll be happy to see this little addition to the Windows Vista clock:


Nice touch. :)

Last night, a group of us met up for dinner in Westwood, and at some point during the conversation, we started discussing geek humor.

Then Shaun emailed this to me...

I started watching the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica after I got back from New York (thanks to my brother's recommendation), and I'm really enjoying the show. Season 3 has just started, and I've got the first two episodes queued up and waiting for me already.

Anyway, here's a tidbit for fellow BSG fans - I was watching the short Webisodes on the Sci-Fi site earlier today and noticed this clever little Microsoft ad on the side. Amusing. :)

I became a big believer in dual-core CPUs after I got my Core Duo based Tablet PC a couple of months ago. In fact, the clearly noticeable benefits in multitasking performance prompted me to sell off the Athlon 64 4000+ in my desktop and replace it with a dual-core Opteron 165 this week. The cost difference was a mere $20, so it was totally worth it.

The Opteron 165 cores run at a stock speed of 1.8 GHz compared to the 2.4 GHz that the single-core 4000+ did. But anyone who has read anything about the Socket 939 Opterons knows that they're an overclocker's dream come true. I'm currently running the processor at 2.6 GHz with the voltage dropped down to 1.28V, so it runs nice and cool, and at 800 MHz above the stock speed. The performance is already on-par with a $600 FX-60 for a fraction of the price. I'm sure I can safely crank it up some more with a few tweaks, but that's for another day... :)