No complaints

It's just the perfect kind of day the sun is shining, but the temperature will only be on the 70's.  I would say spring is here, strange it came in June.

Sex and happiness

So PopSci ran an article about the positive effect of semen on the mental health of women.  Now this is the type of science I can get behind.  The gist of the article for those that cannot be bothered to click through is that based on the results of a survey done in 2002 on a group of 293 college students:

Women who always had unprotected sex had significantly lower levels of depression symptoms than those who usually or always used condoms, as well as those who abstained from sex. There was no significant difference in depression between condom users and abstainers, indicating that the physical act of sex itself wasn't the mood-boosting factor.

Interesting broad level results but the reasoning may have come from evolutionary biology and the makeup of seminal fluid.  Sperm make up a relatively small percentage of the load, and the remaining bits are a complex mixture that has compounds that can be detected in the blood stream after sex (with out a condom)

Three compounds of interest in seminal plasma are estrogen, prostaglandins and oxytocin. Estrogen and prostaglandins have been linked to lower levels of depression, while oxytocin (which women release during birth, breastfeeding and orgasm) promotes social bonding.

So there you have it, if you want to keep a girl and keep her happy, ditch the rubber.

PopSci via The daily what

Solid Beer Commercial

I'm not normally for such obvious link bate, but this commercial is too good not to share.





via GAS

Model Airplanes

I have a little bit of interest in model airplanes, but have always been a little turned off by the price point of most of these commercial models.  I would hate to spend several hundred dollars, and hours assembling something I am very likely to crash into the ground at high velocity.

Enter Build a Foamie.

The idea of this is sort of genius, someone builds and tests the designs and then sells plans and parts lists.  See a plane you want and then for less than $20 you have a tested set of build plans that you can assemble out of construction foam.  I am sure that everything he did can be figured out on your own, but for people that are just getting started in this hobby I think it is a low risk proposition that might yield a lot of fun.

Happy IPv6 day

Are you ready for IPv6 Day?

Google has a handy little test to see if you are going to have any issues with the cut over.

For those of you that don't know about it, IPv6 day is the 24 hour test run for Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks and some of the major organizations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour test period. The goal of the Test Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – ISPs, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.


You can read more about it on World IPv6 Day.

Microsoft Groove Does stuff ---Update------

I never actually got around to saying what it was that Groove did in the last post so I thought I would finish the thought (3 years later) with what I have figured out since then.  It turns out that Groove (now Sharepoint Workspace 2010) is both a client for Groove Servers (now Sharepoint Server) and an Ad Hoc Sharepoint like software. The principle of what Groove does centers around document stores (just like Sharepoint is all about lists of documents).  The key difference with Groove what that you didn't require the infrastucture to be put into place for you it could be implemented in a peer-to-peer system with documents stored and synced on individual computers local drives. Source

Hope that helps for people that wonder what the hell Groove does, I really think that Microsoft has failed to articulate what the hell is going on with their byzantine product matrix, and doesn't do a great job of selling the features to the non-technical world.

Sysadmin Tool list

My organization previously used Sunbelt Software for Anti-Virus so I still get emails from them from time to time about their various offerings.  This list did strike me as interesting though.  It is a list of 40 "System Admin tools". I say it in quotes because several of them are ok in most situations, but it is interesting the value/non-value of free tools.  For instance 7zip, I love it.  Great program and I use it on almost every system I run.  I found out the hard way that it is not infallible, I was trying to untar and .img file to burn to usb using dd, and the file repeatedly failed, I re-downloaded it and same story.  Turns out 7zip doesn't handle files larger than 4gigs very well, Winrar or tar on a linux system and it worked fine.  Moral of the story sometimes you get what you pay for.

Anyway give them a look, the marketing department only placed one Sunbelt Software tool on the list so it actually (barely) passes the bullshit marketing test.


Via Sunbelt Software