May 31: Show Me Your

Hmm. Thanks to the lovely Aimee Deep, I learned of this. Apparently, Tatu is soliciting naked pictures of teenages to use for their next album cover. Can't beat that, although it's a wee bit weird that age of consent, Mike, is only 14 in Russia.

May 30: 1/Good = Bad

I've noticed something strange. Two strongly correlated laws:
1. Good news never comes without bad news. This keeps you grounded in reality.
2. Bad news never comes without good news. This keeps you from wanting to shoot yourself.

The bad news is that I seem to have lost all of my journal entries and layouts from 2002. CRAP. The good news is that I've found journal entries from 1998 and 1999.

There's bad news attached to that one too, though. These things are REALLY lame. If I ever ran in 15 year old me, I'd kick myself in the head. As cool as it is to read the old entries, I am never letting them see daylight.

Finally, the good news that's attached to the bad news that's attached to the good news that's attached to the bad news is that I've remembered a physical journal from summer 1999. Whenever I get the chance and some alone time with a scanner, I'll be putting those online. They're all about my misadventures in Scotland (June 29th - July 21st, 1999). Bonus.

May 30: Weatherpixie

Hey, check this out:

It's a WeatherPixie — very cool. You just go fill out a form to find the closest weather report to you and you get self-updating image that shows the weather. You can even choose your weather person.

Go check it out.
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May 30: Moment of Silence

Let us have a moment of silence for Simon's poor car, which he has abandoned in Australia to seek the louder life in Canada.

May 30: Gone in n Seconds

I saw Gone in 60 Seconds tonight. It wasn't the first time, but it was the first time I'd seen the whole thing. Before, I had just sort of seen the middle. I knew he was stealing tons of cars, but I didn't know why, and I didn't know what happened to them. Now I know.

It wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't particularly great. It's rating on the IMDB is only 57%, which actually puts it below Star Wars Episode I. Sad. Apparently, the original movie (from the mid-seventies) was much better, and had a 40 minute car chase scene. I must rent that sometime.

Anyway, to get to the point of the post, I'm thinking I could do what they did in the movie. Oh, sure, I don't have the tools or the team, and I certainly don't have the experience. They had an eight AM deadline on their steal-a-thon. Let's see.

It's 1:12 AM now, so if I left this very instant, I would have less than seven hours to steal fifty cars. Not bloody likely. They had twelve. So, ((7/12)*50) gives me a target of ~29 cars. Since there were three teams, I'd only be able to do one third, so, roughly 10 cars. They had tools and cool gadgets, but they also had Angelina Jolie's, um, assets to distract them, so it evens out.

So, I'm just gonna go out and steal me ten really nice cars.

Yep. Here I go.

Oh, wait. Crap. Something distracted me.

I'm not into a life of crime anyway.

May 29: Hats for Clowns

They're having a contest over at the Weebl and Bob web site to see who can come up with the best remix of “Hats for Clowns”. I don't expect to win, but I've made my own entry for the hell of it. I just wanted a copy of the song to put on CD. The best they did was give me the chunks, so here's my entry.

Let me know what you think.

May 29: Loser

I'm watching daytime television, as I often do during the daytime, and since I can't find the remote, I've been watching TLC for the last few hours. As far as I can tell, all this consists of is “A Blank Story”. I've watched A Personal Story, A Makeover Story (the carpenters from Trading Spaces), and now, the saddest of all, A Dating Story.

There's this radio DJ chick looking for love. Something has happened to make her believe that going on a dating show might solve her problems. There are three guys vying for her attention, and one of them SHOULD have sent up a warning flag as soon as he walked in.

He's a Klingon. Or, at least, he thinks he is. He really does. He does everything in full Klingon make-up and dress, and is planning on taking her to a Star Trek convention. Now, I love Star Trek as much as the next geek, but that's just sad.

I can't believe I'm watching this garbage.

Anyway, I'm bored, and posting as usual. I just finished some PHP coding, to update LinkPool a wee bit. Notice the sidebar?

Oh, and by the way...new layout. But duh.

PS: I forgot to mention the new karma links. You can see them under every entry (right next to the comments link). It's a way of rating entries, built into Nucleus. Basically, if you like an entry, click the +. If you don't, click the -. And only vote once.

May 28: Sandy Toes

Home improvement sucks. Not the show (although it was pretty lame), actual home improvement. We're nearing the end of week two in the great Stair Sanding Adventure. I'm very sick of it.

I'm not sure if I've enumerated the layers to be found on these stairs. From top to bottom, we had:
  1. Blue carpet. Once nice and fluffy, it fluffed no more.
  2. Orange carpet. Yes, orange. (1) was here when we moved in, and the bastards that owned this house never ripped up the old carpets before putting down a new one. It might, however, have been due to...
  3. Two centimeters of foam, followed by a liberal dosing of Uber Glue. Yes, Uber glue — it appears to be mixture of wood glue and general carpenters glue. It's still sticky after at least twenty years.
  4. Wood, precious wood.
The wood is actually quite nice, it's pine. We've gotten all of the carpet and foam up, but the foam/glue residue is very hard to get off and needs to be sanded off by hand. All three of the power sanders we've wielded have proven ineffective.

I hate the dust.

Today, we learned that taking off the stairs and sanding them individually was much faster (I actually suggested this a week ago and was shot down). The problem is that there are no less than six nails per stair and they're very, very long. It's hard to remove them without mangling the wood or bending the nail. So, the adventures continue. Friday and Saturday are filled with more step adventures. I am very, very glad I work on Saturday.

Every day in every way, I'm becoming a better stair sander.

PS: I can't wait for 2Fast 2Furious.

May 27: Pffzzzt!!

I had the WORST night last night. ugh. You know when you just wake up for no reason in the middle of the night, and all of a sudden you're totally awake? I had one of those. I am so tired.

The job interview I had this morning, however, went well. I think. I'm supposed to get an answer on Thursday, so that's cool. I'd be an emergency room ward clerk (read: do everything, bi0tch!), and it sounds fun. Or busy, at least.

I'm working on a new layout for the site. It's quite nice (in my somewhat biased opinion). I'm considering posting a picture of it and getting you guys to rate it. I might just surprise the world, though. I like it lots, and it looks great in Mozilla.

May 27: Sha^3

New CD burned.

Continue reading “Sha^3”...

May 26: Anggun

Whilst channel surfing, I hovered longer than usual on Muchmoremusic during a french video. You know how I feel about these.

However, the song was really catchy, and the singer was kinda hot. Her name is Anggun. Most of her fan sites are in either Italian or French (she's Indonesian). Knowing my luck with the Internet, they probably say something like “This is Anggun, she used to be a man.”

Either way, the song is catchy. Go look up “Un Geste D'amour” online. It had a cool video that would have been cooler if I could read French.

In other music news, the new Ricky Martin song (Jaleo) is more terrible than you ever could have imagined. It's basically three minutes of him saying “alay alay alay alay alay alay alay e oh”. If it comes on, take my word for it and rip off your ears. Or change the channel.

And get It Just Won't Do by Tim Deluxe (featuring Sam Obernik). Great song. Mediocre video (lots of low quality TnA).

May 26: Cyberdigeridoo

Oh, great. Just great. The Americans are electing a chief of cybersecurity for the office of “Homeland Security”. You know what that means: someone who might actually know what the little padlock icon in his browser means.

Seriously, though, this is bad news for the entire world. Since almost all of us are running American-made software in numbers that far outweigh the foreign stuff, any changes made to laws “for the benefit of the American people” (read: for the benefit of spying on EVERYONE) will directly affect everyone. Some old, upper class white man will be controlling how we use computers and the Internet. Be concerned.

In other news, Mike's entry for the MuchMusic Temp 2003 contest is complete. He and Steve spent the last two weeks or so working on it, and it's quite good. I will post a copy online once the contest is over — Mike doesn't want it up until then. It's about 53 megs of Div-X goodness. Quality.

I saw Bruce Almighty last night. It was excellent. I love Morgan Freeman's acting, so having him as god was quite amusing. Hey, I'd worship him. Sacrilege aside, the movie was entertaining and brought up some interesting theological questions from time to time. One has to wonder if a god really would ever want to take a vacation.

Some of the humour was subtle, and a lot was way over the top, but overall, I think it was a great movie. I give it a 0.9.

We actually had all intentions of seeing The Italian Job (or the Italian Jorb as I like to call it). However, it turns out that it isn't in theatres until next Friday. Go figure. Stupid misinformation. Anyway, I really have to stop seeing car action movies, and any movies that make pulling off a big crime look glamorous. I can just see Mike trying to talk me into hitting Fort Knox because he thinks he can pull it off. Right.

Anyway, I have to go. To do a number one.

May 24: Hiya, Drunkies!

What a weird night. Since everything in life is a chain reaction (A leads to B leads to C ... leads to A in the occasional Star Trek episode), let me start from the beginning.
  1. Mike loses his cell phone last week.
  2. Mike goes to the apartment of his friend Ashley because he lost her phone number with the phone.
  3. Steve decides to go visit a friend who lives in the apartment next door.
  4. We go to retrieve Steve and he makes us go into his friends apartment to see how disgustingly dirty it is.
  5. Two weird, unknown girls are there who just strolled in. They con Mike into driving them to the Mumford bus terminal.
  6. Simon calls while they're being all drunk and high and underage in the back of the car.
Sigh. Stupid people. Last time I go with Mike while he does a good deed. Those girls were dirty.

Anyway, the actual day was fun. We gathered crap for tomorrows's imminent yard sale and had a barbeque, even though it was ever so slightly too cold. Oh, and Mom bought Star Trek IV on DVD (widescreen director's edition). Yayness.

At any rate, it's 12:11 and I have to get up for work in less than seven hours. So I'm off. Bubye.

May 22: Canadian University to Begin Training Hackers

from the learning-from-the-other-side dept.
torok writes “According to an article at The Edmonton Journal, The University of Calgary is going to start teaching select computer science students to write software viruses in a special new disconnected lab. Will Canada be accused of training the world's next generation of cyber-terrorists... or peacekeepers?”

For all the linky goodness, hit /.

May 22: Nexxus V

Well, I finally obtained a new cell phone, after almost two years with Nexxus IV (a really old Sanyo phone with no cool features whatsoever).

Here's Nexxus V, which is a Samsung SPH-A450. It's quite nice. Bright blue screen, animations, lame ringers. And it flips, which is something I've always wanted. =)

Mike also got a new cell phone...guess what kind.

Yeah, I got the same phone as Mike. Lame, I know, but I really liked it. He got it yesterday. This just follows in the pattern we have: I look into something, and forget about it. Mike gets it, and I remember. Then I get it. Behold:

1999 - High speed Internet (same company).
2000 - New desktop computer (almost identical setup).
2001 - Palm handheld (same capabilities).
2002 - Laptop (almost identical setup).
2003 - Cell phone (same model).

Anyway. When you get here, Simon, you should get the same phone. It's nice and pretty cheap. Plus, it's just plain cool when a bunch of people have the same phone.

May 22: Ouch.

Ugh. I have the worst luck ever. Thanks to an exploding glass while I was doing the dishes, I have two nasty gashes on my right hand (inside of index finger and outside of thumb). Gotta love being both clumsy AND a borderline hemophiliac. It's fortunate school is out for the summer, because I can't hold a pen. Typing is still fine though.

For those of you having trouble emailing me, fear not. You should be able to get through now. If you get the whitelist auto-reply, that means that your address isn't in my address book (although it probably should be). Click here to send me a message that will get through. Don't forget to fix the address though.

That's all. Bubye.

May 21: I Feel So Fine

I never bother to make track listings for any of the CDs I burn. I figured the best place to keep track of this sort of thing would be here.

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May 21: Poodle Hat

Weird Al has a new album out. Even though most people got sick of him around 1996 (Bad Hair Day), I still like his stuff quite a bit. =)
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May 21: Sickness

Ugh. I'm sick. I hate being sick — it doesn't happen to me all that often. Maybe twice a year. Although David, apparently, gets sick once every five years or so. Lucky bastard.

I spent yesterday in headached, sinus-clogged misery. Around eight pm I got sick of lying on the couch and climbed upstairs to bed. I woke up at eleven this morning, two floors away from where I went to sleep (??) and very groggy. But not nearly as sick. I'm still very hot, though, and sweaty fingers make it hard to operate a touchpad. Since navigating the Interweb sucks with a keyboard, I'll either have to plug in my mouse or joystick.

Apparently, there is a bad flu going around. I guess I have that. It's only one of those 24 hour flus, so I'm almost over it. Yay for me.

Yesterday, in between my winding, I spent five hours driving around with Tony. Superficially, we were supposed to be dropping resumes off for him. In reality, we were really just driving around. I think he only dropped off two or three. Someone, we managed to visit every borough in Halifax (for the non-Haligonians, that would be Cole Harbour, Dartmouth, Halifax, Bedford, and Sackville. Oh, and Waverly, although I think that's still technically Dartmouth). It was fun, and very hot. Yesterday was the second summer-like day we've had, and the first day that felt 100% like summer. It was 27C at one point. I think it's time for the air conditioner to get installed again.

The rest of this entry shall be geeky.

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May 18: Camwhorez

This has to be one of the funniest web sites in all existence. It's short, simple, and informative. Mike, I highly recommend that you get a wig like this guy has and start camwhoring. Seriously.

May 17: Countdown

I was cruising around a few PHP scripts and came across a nice countdown function written by Jim Goldbloom.

The result of that is here.

May 16: Pine

What a long, crappy day. Today was the Day of the Steps (bah bah bahhhhhnnnn). We ripped up the carpet in the stairway, only to discover terrible 70s-era orange stuff underneath. And get this. That stuff was glued down.

What was wrong with the former owners of this home??

Anyway, after much ripping, tearing, prying, and sanding, we discovered that underneath all the carpet and glue and crap, there was some really nice wood. Pine, in fact. So, we sanded them smooth and left them for the day after seven hours or so of work. They're not done, or anywhere near it, but they look much, much better. Just wait til they get stained. They'll be so pretty.

All the sanding gave me a massive allergy attack, however, so I've been in bed for the last two hours and I'm now ready for sleep. Work tomorrow and all.

Until then, I guess, I bid thee farewell. Or firewall. Or something.

May 15: Xenon

I'm too tired.

May 13: Thirteen

My Internet connection has been tres wonky all day. So, it's a fitting close to today that it's down. Again. I'm writing this in Notepad, and I'll post it tomorrow. If I remember (it's safe to assume that if you're reading this, I've remembered).

I was digging through some old files (as I often do, in case you've not noticed) located on Jupiter and found a backup of my old Favorites folder. I haven't gone through it too much yet, but the first link I tried actually worked. It's funny, since it hasn't been updated since 1999. The Favorites aren't all that old, however.

I often wonder how many gigabytes of data I have lying around. If you count my data CD library, you start off with around 57 gigs. It's hard to estimate, since I only put 640 megs on my first 20 CDs (back then, you had to be careful if you wanted to avoid coasters). And the last 20 have all been 700 megabytes. I'm assuming an average of around 660 megs each.

That's the vast majority of my data. However, I've got 5 accounts on Jupiter, various FortuneCity accounts that actually still work, a box load of floppies, accounts on Borg and Skywalker from school, and so on. Tons and tons and tons of stuff. I'd love to just sit and sift someday, but I think I'd end up doing that for the rest of my life. I almost have enough data.

It's amazing, really, that I could ever be bored when I have this much stuff. Yeesh. Look at my emulator folder alone — 2000 games for Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Genesis, and Gameboy. Oh, and Nintendo 64. Good thing hard drives don't get heavier when they're full, or my backpack would've broken long ago.

Tonight was fun. Tonight was stupid and useless and meandering, and a little bit familiar during some weird moments. I'm starting to wonder if I've done everything before at some point. I almost wish I believed in the whole past lives concept, because it might explain my nearly constant deja vu. For someone with such a bad memory, that's odd.

Sigh. Stupid Inter(mittent)net connection.

May 13: LinkPool

I am ever-so-pleased to announce the grand opening of LinkPool.

I've noticed you guys posting quite a few web links in the comments here, so I thought it would be good to just move that to a more central location.

LinkPool is a really simple concept: you post links to cool things you find, and other people look at them. Just go check it out to see what I mean.

This would be considered “beta” at the moment. Eventually, I will put the 5 most recent links in the sidebar, and allow you to show only specific categories (which are whatever, cars, computers, movies, music, news, people, politics). Another lacking feature is that it shows all of the links in one giant page. Eventually, I'll break it down to ten per page or so, a la search engines.

At any rate, start using it so I can see how well it works. Thanks.

May 13: New Blings But No New Toilets

Well, the Americans have finally gotten over their green and black color fetish for their money. Behold, courtesy of CNN, the new $20 bill:




It's definitely an improvement over their old design, but it's still pretty bland. And who is the guy on the front, anyway?

In other news, the Microsoft iLoo Internet-enabled toilet finally turned out to be a hoax. I had a feeling, but since it was popping up all over the place, I started to believe it. No loss there, I wouldn't touch a keyboard that was in a public bathroom. People would just be looking up porn all the time. On the other hand, it could have made for an interesting form of digital graffiti.

May 12: Counters

No need to worry about visiting the site through the front door anymore (if any of you ever actually did). I've integrated my crappy counter into the logo in the top left corner (if you have a script called blah.gif.php and try to access a file called blah.gif, it will run the script). The only trouble is that it's a bit too sensitive. If you read the journal and then view the comments, you increment the counter twice. I'll have to do something about that, maybe with cookies that expire in an hour or something (if person with IP X has been here in the last hour, don't increment, or whatever).

Meh. I'm loving the rain we're getting! It's not that freezing cold crap we've been getting all spring, it's real rain, with thunder and all. I love that kind of stuff. It makes everything feel so clean when it's over with.

I wouldn't mind some nice weather, though. It's been rainy for a week and a half.

May 12: Monkey Waffles

Tony wants some feedback on what domain to buy. So, go here and tell him to get monkeywaffles.com — now!
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May 12: Please Stand Up

The amount of funny crap you can find on the Interweb is super-great.

May 11: Miniputtputt

Mini-Golf is a fantastic past-time, and I highly recommend thee try-ith it.
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May 11: Eject0r

Alright, just when you thought absolutely nothing new could come from the single disc storage front, the CloverCase Ejector comes along. How cool is that thing? I'm thinking of ordering some — anyone want to go splits on a ten pack?



May 11: It's Mother's Daaay

It's that special time of the year — that one, more-significant-than-normal Sunday — where we should all get together, sit down with our families, and listen to Mother's Day by Blink-182.

Seriously, though. Mother's Day is a strange holiday. As important as it is to make our mom's realize how important they are to us, it still feels like a manufactured, Hallmark holiday. Something made-up to sell roses and cards.

Mother's Day, as it stands now, was first “officially” started in 1908. If you squint your eyes and turn off your speakers, this page has information on its origins. Midi's should be banned. Forever.

Oh well. Happy Mother's Day, Mom. I bought you a movie. It's got that scary freckley kid in it.
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May 11: Wanna See My Nanotube?

Hmm. That's not a very flattering title.

Anyway, Slashdot had an interesting story about nanotube RAM, which will someday pack more than 1 terabit per square centimenter! That's absolute insane...sigh. I can't wait. =)
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May 10: Handprints

When I was fifteen years old, I dipped the palm of my hand into a pool of bright blue finger paint and pressed it against a piece of paper. It was an indelible mark — something to say “here, this is part of me, I create with it.” I still have that page, folded up in a box of possessions that are meaningless one at a time, but taken together tell a story of how I once was.

I wish I could do the same thing with my mind, somehow make an imprint of it so I can look back on it someday and know what sort of thoughts I was thinking and how I felt. A snapshot of myself, as it were. I guess this little journal is as close as I can come.

I really wish I was a better journal writer. More reliable. Over the last five years, I've stopped and started a half dozen times, always giving up on writing because something more pressing appeared. But the other activities always faded away and I was left with only vague memories.

I checked through some old files. I still have most of the journals, and I think it's time to bring them together. Sure, they're sparse, but they're the best I have. I can't even remember what clothes I was wearing yesterday, so it's not like I can rely on memory to serve me. As embarassing as it can be to look on myself five years later, I can learn from it. I can gain experience from my own inexperience as I fumbled from point A to point B.

I'm at work and I'm dead tired. I think I should call Castro and warn him that I won't be doing anything tonight. I wish I was, since I haven't seen him in eons. I really must bring him around more often, since he's good company. Maybe tomorrow night.

May 09: Boom Boom Kitty Fuck

Please do me a favor and enter the site from the front door. I've installed a rather rudimentary counter, but it only increments on the front page. It's so simplistic that if I put it on the main blog, it would increment every time you read comments or whatever. So, it's there for now. I'll fix it later, but I'd appreciate you guys using the front page until further notice.

I'm off — toodle dee dooooo.

May 08: Check It Out - Check It Out - Check It Out - Check It Out

Greatest car mod ever.

May 08: Croissants

Hmm. Croissants. What a weird food.

They're like a really, really squishy (and slightly sweet) bread. I'm not sure how much I like 'em, but for now, they're good to munch on.

Mom went to Costco and bought vast amounts of croissants, apple turnovers, and pirolines. Yum.

I went to see the IMAX 3D Space Station (again) tonight. The hospital had a half price deal for employees, so I took advantage of the offer and saw it again. Fun.

However, I was quite distressed to find that our IMAX isn't showing Matrix Reloaded. We only get the normal theatre version — how crappy. I'm sure it will still be cool, but...not as cool.

May 07: RIAA is a Monopoly? No, Really??

Dmusic.com has a great article all y'all should read. One of their writers is offering the United States Copyright Office evidence that the RIAA is engaging in monopolistic activity.

It's good evidence, and you know what? There's only so many times The Man can ignore evidence like this and support Big Business.

May 07: Eye Cue

Ugh. I have the attention span of a fruit fly. I went to Hotmail to check my spam count and I saw a banner for an online IQ test. Out of morbid curiosity, I took it.

Apparently, I have an IQ of 131 and I'm a “visual mathematician” (a la Albert Einstein — RIGHT). That IQ is lower than I used to be on those sort of things. Maybe it's because it's still early. Oh well — it's not like IQ tests mean anything. We learned that in psychology.

I wish there was an online version of the Wischler tests. Those were fun.

Anyway, if all y'all feel like doing the IQ test thing, it's over at Emode. It's only 40 questions. Don't give them a real email address, though.

The Emode site has a whole crapload of different quizzes. My “relationship color” (??) is purple, meaning I “tend to be a cooperative, passionate partner who is able to balance your own firmly held beliefs with strong negotiation skills”.

According to the “emotional IQ test”, which tells me how people-smart I am, I have an EIQ of 120. This is way above average and obviously totally incorrect.

Fun stuff, though.

May 06: I'm Could Be a Millionaire

According to HumanForSale.com, I am worth precisely $2,318,502.00. Groovy.
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May 06: Sweetness

I'm thinking of purchasing this briefcase full of diamonds. I haven't read the entire website yet, but it sounds like a fantastic deal.

It'd be pretty cool to haul that around. I just hope I don't get jumped by thugs or something.

Yeah.

May 06: Hotness

Kinkylicious has some real hotness with their Milla cam.

Yamu.
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May 06: GTI vs Civic

Steve has done a fantastic job in finding this, one of the most amusing Flash things I've seen in a while.

Keddy, did you do the sound effects for the Civic in that animation??
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May 06: USA! USA!! USA!!!

Sigh. USA should actually stand for “Uninformed Stupid Assholes”. Check this out. It's absolutely pathetic.

Thanks to Bad Ass Mofo, we have this lovely quote:

For those of you whose mouths are agape in shock, lemme clue you in on a little secret: in the deep south, they ain't too fond o' the nigras.

Whatever. Un-fucking-believable.
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May 05: Checkin' Da Email

One sec. I have to go check the new strong_bag_email.

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Ooh, it is good. I love Stwong Bayd.

How are all y'all? What a great evening! Sorry Steve, I have to publish your lactose intolerance to the world!

Yessh, Steve has discovered he is lactose intolerant and made me pull the car over many-a-time on the way back from Bedford tonight. Good think he didn't heave up a lung in my car, or else I would have...made him...um. Clean it, I guess. But anyway. Steve goes pukies, milk is no good.

Scratch it off the list.

Anyway, I'm getting ready to engage in a mad junk food swap with Penny. Yay for weird food we don't get here! Did you know they don't get Aero bars in Seattle? Funny, huh?

May 05: Ready for Sleeps

I am so ready for some major sleepage. Long day, and splitting headache for the last few hours. I don't usually get headaches, so I'm blaming Penny for mentally directing hers towards me. :|

I got lots of work done on the server tonight, however. The www folder was absolutely full of crap I didn't need (there were at least a dozen non-functioning .html files in the root), and the folder structure wasn't as good as it could have been (for example, the admin area for the journal was /nucleus/nucleus).

So, I've moved the journal from /nucleus/ to /journal/ (this was very painful since I'd hardcoded the URL in all of the page templates, and Nucleus makes it a bitch to change them all). I toasted most of the non-functioning crap in the web folder, redid the front redirection page so it would be prettier (and also so the damn site would get sniffed by Google), and fixed part of the journal template that had a mistake, making my email address not visible.

Lots done. Plus I did a larger scale version of the logo you see in the top right. It's almost desktop wallpaper worthy. I love simplicity.

Anyway, I had submitted that little blurb I wrote about the Supersite review of Longhorn onto /., and it got put up. However, I got totally flamed by the hardcore Linux geeks. What can you do? Most of the facts they pointed out I already knew and hadn't bothered to keep in mind. Sheesh.

I'm leaving (sleeping) now. On a jetplane (not really). I don't know when I'll be back again (tomorrow).

So many brackets in this post (stick!).

PS: I almost forgot. I finally applied the site layout to the comments pages. Whee!

May 04: Donkey Poop?

Just making sure my journal is still working. I'm reorganizing my server.

(update)

Yay, it's done. So much cleaner on the hard drive. I moved a bunch of things around, but it shouldn't matter much.
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May 04: Sigh

Companies remain stupid.
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May 04: Be Prepared!

You know, us Canadians can benefit from the US Government as much as their own citizens. Thanks to them, we have this website to learn how crazy and paranoid they are. And, better yet, we have this website to show us what the icons REALLY mean.

Bonus.

Warning: The previously mentioned site generates a nauseating amount of pop-up windows.
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May 04: Summer Flicks

Sure, it might be getting a bit old, but American Pie 3 looks like it might be funny. Most of the ladies are gone (Alyson Hannigan remains) but the MILF guys are still in it.

I'm sorry, I really like the American Pie movies.

May 04: Longhorn

Paul Thurrott has an excellent preview of Longhorn milestone five over at his Supersite for Windows. It looks like this may be Microsoft's equivalent to OS X — the next version of Windows will have a 3D accelerated desktop and other graphical goodies. In addition to this, it will include a journaling file system, so us mere mortals can enjoy what Linux Geeks have had for years.

May 04: Confused

I was surfing /. and found this. What a creepy idea.

The Onion had an article parodying a similar, non-existant product. People take some concepts too far.

May 04: Once and For All

Alright, I'm here to stop the boy vs girl / mysogynyst vs feminist argument once and for all:

Girls: You bleed once a month but you get to have babies. You're better at multitasking. You're more content with expressing yourself and that's fine.

Guys: You're going to be stupid, but more mathematical. For some reason, you can have sex with lots of ladies and everyone says it's okay. But you're forced to live vicariously through whatever technology you have since you can't have babies. Or so they say.

No...wait. Those descriptions are meaningless. We're all people, we can all do whatever everyone else can (except girls can have babies and boys can pee standing up. Actually, some very scary girls can pee standing up too, but that's another story). There is no considerable difference between the genders.

So why do guys and feminists always end up clashing? If I saw a nine foot penis made out of snow on the Harvard campus, I would laugh my head off. I would laugh just as hard, if not more, if it was part of the female anatomy. So why did a group of feminists scream bloody murder and knock the thing down?

I don't understand the gender wars! There's no difference, people. Get over yourselves. Everyone should just start getting along.

May 03: Crashie Poos

I love Slashdot — you learn the most interesting things.

The people at Secunia have posted a warning about how Internet Explorer 4.0 and above can be crashed with just five lines of ordinary code:

<html>
<form>
<input type crash>
</form>
</html>

I've reproduced the file that does the crashing here. Try it — crazy, huh?
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May 01: Turkey's Done

I've found that that since school let out, I've already done everything. Isn't that strange? Too much free time, I suppose. I need to get another job so my weekdays are filled up a bit more. Too much free time is generally regarded as a bad thing.

I really can't wait until the actual summer arrives. Free time is much nicer when the weather isn't crappy. We're currently engaged in a three day cycle of 1. nice weather 2. rainy weather 3. cloudy and damp weather. It's very, very annoying. Worst spring ever.

However, the winter coat has finally been cast off and I can enjoy the great outdoors every now and then. It's not quite at the “take the laptop outside and listen to the birds” phase, but it's close.

Anyway, I'm done writing for now. The turkey's done.

May 01: Coolness

From Slashdot:
High Density CDs (from the totally-incompatible dept.)
goofrider writes “Sanyo introduced a new format called HD-Burn, supported by their new DVD+/-RW chip. It allows the drive to burn up 1.4GB of data using a regular 700MB blank CD-R blank. The resulting HD-Burned CD-R can only be read by supporting DVD/DVD-ROM drives and CD-ROM drives. Most DVD/DVD-ROM drives can support the format via a firmware upgrade. It's unclear how easy and how likely will it be for future drives to support this format. In contrast, Plextor released their new GigaRec technology in their new PlexWriter Premium (read a review here). GigaRec also records on regular blank CD-Rs, allows up to 1GB of data on a 700MB disc. however, the disc can be read on any modern good-quality CD-ROM drives with no firmware upgrades required. So now I can record 2x the data on a CD-R but I still can't have filenames longer than 64 characters. :)”

I don't know which one sounds more appealing — 1.4 GB or 1.0 GB with better compatibility. Either one sounds cool, but that 64 character filename limitation is still annoying.

I wonder how it works...