This has to be the best motorcycle photo I have ever seen. It is on an ‘04 Harley-Davidson FXST. In case you don’t know what 0341 means, 0341 is the Marine Corps MOS number for infantry mortarman.

I found this picture on ChopCult.com. You can see the guys profile here.

About 7 months ago  wrote about a Silverlight fail. I have another one for you:

What’s funny about this error message is I never installed Siverlight. How can it expire if it’s not installed? By the way, Silverlight is a FREE plugin. How does it expire to begin with?

I did a little bit of online research, and apparently it goes deeper than this. I clicked on ‘No’ when I saw the message so I can’t vouch for this. But the link that is in the error message, you can’t copy that link. So you have to type it in the address bar of the browser manually. Once you get to the page, you get the same error message and can’t update Silverlight. You have to go to the Silverlight page instead of the Silverlight update page.

So good job, Microsoft. Not doing so good when it comes to contending with Flash.

I had a car accident last night. This morning I woke up and thought that I needed to make sure I reported it to my insurance company. So I called them up. Half way through telling them my policy number I stopped and realized something. This is how the conversation went;

Me: (half way through telling them my policy number) … Oh crap!
Insurance: What is it?
Me: I just realized… I didn’t have an accident. It was a dream.
Insurance: … What do you mean?
Me: My little sister was in the car with me. She lives in Texas and I live in California. It had to have been a dream… I’m really sorry.

At that point she started laughing at me. She wasn’t happy about having to work on the weekend but that just made her entire day.

So the dream was that I was in Texas. And my little sister and I were in my Mustang. We were stopped at a stop light. We were in the left lane to turn left to go to my parents house. Two motorcycle cops that were headed in the other direction flipped on their lights and sirens. The light turned green and the guy in front of me went. I decided to stay were I was so the cops could go by before I went. They headed over toward my side of the road. The first cop went by me and started weaving in and out of the cars. The second one started to do the same thing but lost control of his motorcycle and scrapped the entire passenger side of my car.

I pulled over to the gas station on the corner and started trading insurance with the cops. They were being complete jerks to me saying it was my fault somehow. Suddenly, Dylan, my sisters stepson, appears in the back seat and wants out to see the damage. I let him out. He starts laughing at me and I said “Shut up! Get back in the car!”

We finish trading information and we drive off. That’s when I woke up. That’s when I decided to call my insurance agent. I felt like an idiot, but at least my car was fine.

When I first updated to Snow Leopard I was using a Logitech mouse. But I kept having problems with it. Some of the time it would read my single clicks as double clicks. So if I was selecting a bunch of files to be deleted, it would then open them all up. It became very annoying. So I started using the Mighty Mouse until the Magic Mouse came out. I use the Magic Mouse exclusively now.

I have to say the Magic Mouse is almost the best mouse I have ever had. I say almost because with both the Logitech mouse and Mighty Mouse, I had a way to do application Exposé without touching the keyboard. For most people, this isn’t a big deal. But I spend a lot of time on the computer. Shortcuts like that really help.

I’m pretty sure Apple is working on updating the Magic Muse driver to do it now, but in the mean time, you can use BetterTouchTool. I have it set right now to three finger click opens up Exposé. I can easily change it to a two, three, four, or five finger click, or tap, or swipe. It’s a pretty nice little program. If you gave a Magic Mouse, I recommend you try it out.

Even if you don’t have a Magic Mouse, you can still use it on multitouch touchpads on the Macbook and Macbook Pro.

[Update Jan. 11th, 2009] There is also MagicPrefs which looks like it does the same thing. I haven’t tried it because BTT is working great for me.

Entourage has only 18 hours 56 minutes until the next scheduled check for new emails!