Some tips on cracking binary file formats, old-school style.

The official Foster’s Character Development blog. Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends is one of the funniest cartoons on cable (and the artwork is inspiring too).

Gaming Update
“Then I went out and bought a Zodiac and discovered the Pure Absolute Joy of retro-gaming. Specifically my Super Mario Bros. obsession. I’ve been going through and playing all of the old games (which I wrote about recently as well). These are sooooo much fun. I was using the Zodiac pretty exclusively until they finally cracked the PSP to run “homebrew” apps (i.e. non-managed code) a few weeks ago and now I’ve been playing using the NES, SNES and Gameboy emulators on that console instead. Man, that’s fun. The SNES emulator on the Zodiac didn’t cut it, but the PSP is just good enough to play - which means I’ve been delving into Super Mario World for the past week or so and loving every level of it.” (From some random weblog)

What Dell Support Thinks of Dell “I too am working in Dell tech support,” the poster said, saying his job had been to route calls to the proper support group. “The great thing is that tomorrow is my last day here. Great because this by far has been one of the least gratifying and frustrating positions I have ever held. Yes, there are extensive and considerable problems with Dell tech support. Their outsourcing to India is not even the least of them. Every day is a continuous assault by absolutely clueless and irate customers and an ineffective phone-based support system that is enough to make anyone crack. I’m saying that it all sucks: Dell’s systems and their support and the morons who purchase them … So many times I’ve had to restrain myself from telling customers who are whining about what a piece their Dell is that, hey, guess you should’ve bought a Mac. Goodbye, Dell!”