A TV newsanchor ruins another anchor's career.  Newsworthy on its own account, but we here at techRivet are much more interested on HOW he did it.

Fired Philly TV anchor admits e-mail hacking

He hacked her email account by buying a key-logger and sniffing her passwords.

He bought a keystroke-logging device to get her passwords in August 2006, and intercepted e-mails from Lane's personal and work accounts, prosecutors said.

You live in a world where someone that in all likely-hood has the technical know-how within one standard deviation of the average computer user, has the technical savvy to know about keyloggers and effectively put one to use.

That's remarkable in many ways not the least of which would be as a caution. 

Cool Little Miniature Stove! - The funniest home videos are here

Succinctly put in the comments over at Metacafe: "Holy Crap"

Ya know when you shut down Windows and it sits there for a minute and then notifies you that a program isn't responding and what do you want to do about it?

You know how irritating that is to me?

I just want to tell Windows, "I said shut down so SHUT DOWN!"

Well here's the fix. All it takes is a little registry work.

1. Click Start > Run and type regedit, then hit Enter.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
3. In the right hand pane, change the following String values:
   
   • AutoEndTasks=1
   • HungAppTimeout=4000
   • WaitToKillAppTimeout=4000
   • WaitToKillServiceTimeout=4000

And if the value doesn't exist just right click and add a new string value of the same name.

Sweet.

More detail here and here.

Cool little how to [linky] on making your Creative Zen Vision:M into an eBook reader.  I'm not sure if this would work with an IPod as the screen resolution isn't as good, but it might be fine.

I recently discovered how to turn my Creative Zen Vision:M into an eBook reader. This information is cobbled together from various sources and my experiences in getting this to work.