I’ve started to use a new PGP/GPG key for a multitude of reasons. It can be found in the link below. Here’s a signed text file explaining it a bit. If you want to read a bit more about why others are doing this as well, read this entry over on the Debian Admin site.

Joe Eversole PGP Key

To avoid a drop in sales during Passover in areas with large Jewish populations (like the New York metro area), bottlers will make limited batches of their beverages with sugar as opposed to high fructose corn syrup. This is the way the beverages were originally formulated. In the 1980’s, corn prices fell (combined with NPR Story from a few years back.

Back to the point, today I picked up a 12 pack of cans of Pepsi Throwback. Figuring that it would be the same as Passover Pepsi, I picked up a two liter and compared the labels. The Passover Pepsi had Citric Acid listed on the ingredient list, whereas Pepsi Throwback didn’t. Not sure of the who and whys, but, it’s different.

As for the taste? Anyone will tell you that a soda from a can tastes different than a soda from a 2-liter bottle. But, both the Pepsi Throwback and the Kosher for Passover Pepsi lack the mouthcoating sweet that “normal” Pepsi has… and that’s a good thing.

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Amazon is giving away free MP3 copies of Marvin Gaye’s “Lets Get It On” for Valentines Day. 256kbps, no DRM. Download and enjoy.

I just got my Warhammer Online pre-release codes on Friday and spent a good chunk of Friday night and Saturday downloading the 9 gigabyte client. I get it installed and running… it’s okay. I mean, the frame rate sucks compared to World of Warcraft on the same computer. I don’t know how much of that is “beta code” and debugging/lack of optimization, or if that is because it requires more power to make the pretty graphics.

I get my coffee and some toast, get settled at my desk and launch the Warhammer client… authentication failed. Oh, that’s right… the beta is ending. I check the website, and yep, they shut it down early this morning. No more Warhammer for me until Tuesday.

So, I launch World of Warcraft and login… “Your prepaid time has expired.” What? I don’t use prepaid game cards, I have a subscription that charges my credit card. I login to my credit card company and everything looks okay. I login to the Warcraft account management page, and it all looks okay. My account is enabled, however, it says that my next credit card change is pending on September 12th. I look at my clock… but today is the 14th? What the hell?

I call customer service, and they’re only open during the week. I go on the forums and see a bunch of other people with the same problem and the response from the Blizzard rep is “I can’t do anything about this, you’ll have to call the billing department on Monday.” Awesome.

So, I guess I’ll have to do laundry instead.

Sources: MSNBC, MSNBC Again.

We have been exploring some of the local eateries. We found two good diners. Still looking for the perfect pizza, though. This morning, I went out by myself in search for breakfast. I tried a diner that we had driven past, but it was lackluster. There isn’t a lot one can do to make bacon and eggs spectacular, but they didn’t really try. I was a little disappointed. I decided to stop at a local coffee shop called Brewed Awakenings. Nice people, the food looks and smells awesome. It has more customers in a much smaller area. The coffee is good. I think we have a winner.

I will have to come back here, for sure.