Ha! Going through old boxes and tossing everything I dont need led me to find my old BCGs.

For those that dont know, BCGs are birth-control glasses, given to you during basic training in the military.

Big, thick, heavy, ugly, brown plastic things that can survive anything you throw at them.

Ive been sitting here like a big dork, in fact, wearing them for the last twenty minutes, bringing back memories of my time with the US Army, both good and bad.

The movie Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 received a perfectly-bad 0% rating from the meta-review site Rotten Tomatoes, meaning that not even one of the hundreds of movie critics the site tracks gave the film a positive rating, something increasingly rare in an industry where there’s usually an obscure critic from an even more obscure magazine or newspaper willing to trade a good review for a free trip to the corporate preview. Even stinkers like Catwoman or Garfield rated above a 10%.

Apple’s Quicktime site has the Farscape: The PeaceKeeper Wars mini-series trailer up.

For those of you who are familiar with bittorrent, you can use it to download the Serenity (Firefly movie) teaser that was shown at this year’s Comicon. Unfortunately, it’s a handicam recording of the screen showing the teaser, so half the time you can’t tell what the hell’s going on.

For users of the popular mp3 player Winamp, there’s currently a malicious exploit circulating through the ‘net that makes use of the software’s feature that automatically installs downloaded skins.

Details about the exploit can be found on the Winamp community forums.

The Harsh Reality of an IT Project Life Cycle:

• Phase 1: Uncritical acceptance.
• Phase 2: Wild enthusiasm.
• Phase 3: Dejected disillusionment.
• Phase 4: Total confusion.
• Phase 5: Search for the guilty.
• Phase 6: Punishment of the innocent.
• Phase 7: Promotion of nonparticipants.

Gamespot has an article up now listing games known to have problems with Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, mostly due to security upgrades to the networking components.

If you’ve been having trouble with some of your games since installing this latest operating system update, you might want to check against the list to pinpoint where the problem might be.

Microsoft also has a list they’ve compiled of applications they know to have problems with the update, along with some possible fixes.

I know that there are a number of websites that allow you to use your artwork to create products like t-shirts and mugs available for sale, but I didnt realise that the print on demand industry has taken off on the web as well.

Sites like Lulu.com seem to have finally made self-publishing rather easy to do, which is good news for those of you writing your own books. Of course, the bad news is now you actually have less of an excuse to never finish them.