I was searching the Internet for a way to get Firefox to play embedded AVI's and BEHOLD, there is a way. Some guy in some forum posted these 2 lines of nifty code to add to your config file in firefox...
Edit the file
Appdata%/mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat
There's two of these files; make sure you get the one that is in the firefox sub-directory.
"
G:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\npdsplay.dll|$ |$
1091573676000|1|5|$
Npdsplay dll|$
Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library|$

10 <-- HERE IS THE 1st CHANGE from 9 to 10
0|application/asx|Media Files|*|$
1|video/x-ms-asf-plugin|Media Files|*|$
2|application/x-mplayer2|Media Files|*|$
3|video/x-ms-asf|Media Files|asf,asx,*|$
4|video/x-ms-wm|Media Files|wm,*|$
5|audio/x-ms-wma|Media Files|wma,*|$
6|audio/x-ms-wax|Media Files|wax,*|$
7|video/x-ms-wmv|Media Files|wmv,*|$
8|video/x-ms-wvx|Media Files|wvx,*|$
9|video/x-msvideo|Media Files|avi,*|$ <-- ADDED THIS LINE
"

Make sure firefox is closed before you do this. After this is done, you can play all the avi's you want.

Microsoft has always offered copies of security patches and the like on CD for a nominal fee of $6 or so plus shipping. In what I can only perceive as a move to save face after all the problems that were identified pre-SP2, Microsoft is giving SP2 CD's away for free. If you didn't download the Network install or are on a slow connection, this is a great way to get the updates free from Microsoft. Click here to fill out the form. It takes four to six weeks to get the CD, reportedly.

Grendel sez: Yeah, I ordered my CD a while back, and got it in a little shorter than 6 weeks I believe. However, now that so many people have heard of the free CD offer, I'm sure it'll take quite a while.

Tired of wanting to check something out and have to put in your email, credit card, or not register at all? Well, there is hope.
Mailinator lets you create a fake inbox for a few hours. The beauty of it comes when asked for an email; just go to Mailinator and let them hook you up.
The second one is cool but you have to be a Citibank card holder. Citibank lets their card holders create Virtual Account Numers for online shopping. No longer do you have to put in your credit card to get the shipping info (which, thankfully, is becoming less common).
The last is just too cool. Tired of typing in name, address, and everything else just to read an online newspaper? Then check out BugMeNot.com. Just type in the desired site and you will have a username and password withount entering a thing!
Thanks to these sites you can beat the system.

Grendel sez: BugMeNot is a cool site. Even cooler, for those that use Firefox, is the BugMeNot plugin. All you need to do is just right-click in a field to fill in, and the extension grabs the correct info from BugMeNot, and fills it in for you. Pretty slick.

I just received my new GPS that I purchased from a guy on SomethingAwful at a nice price. It came in this afternoon, and almost immediately, I visited GeoCaching.com to get the coordinates to the nearest caches to me.

I went looking for 3 of the nearest caches. After some looking, I located my first one. Inside I found a log book to log my visit, a camera to snap a pic, and some goodies. I left a couple of knick-knacks and took one to keep.
I searched for the other 2 for a little bit, but they'll have to wait for another day, since I ran out of daylight.

Update: Found a couple of caches in Nacogdoches over the weekend, left a travel bug in one for the Nac crew to find.

Due to the fact that I'm sure it'll be bumped from the shoutbox kinda quick, I decided to post the link to the personality test for others to take.

Post your results in the shoutbox if you wish. The test is not run by more, nor is it biases towards any one type of personality. Just something fun, that is much nicer than receiving a FWD in your mailbox: "zOMG ROFLMAO!!~! HAY d00dz, taek this test itz so kool!!1! pas it on or esle you will get herpes! LOLz!"

Anywho, take the test if you got some time, post your results in the shoutbox.
some results:

Grendel - ENTJ : 28 56 50 33 ..

MrPresident - ISTJ : 22 11 44 11

MackieMan - ISTJ : 33 1 11 89

Grimlen - ENFP : 44 50 56 89