… and I need some sleep. Finishing up an admin package for a client tomorrow, as well as some satisfying personal project stuff. It’s Sunday so I don’t want to set the alarm, but I don’t want to sleep all day either. It’s been a nice weekend.
Category Archives: Personal
New If This Darn Thing…
Well I picked up a motherboard at Fry’s with my dad, and hopefully this will resolve the desktop issues I’ve been having. The new motherboard is pretty sweet, and was quite cheap. I’m quite disillusioned of expensive motherboards with this one failing months after I got it. With the strong prospect that I’m taking my laptop back again it’s important that I at least have a working desktop though, so this will be good. It works!
Pre-Date Confidence Builder
And now, a little something for the ladies.
While It’s Hot
Not that I’m advocating anything, but now probably would be a good time to buy some PhotoMatt, especially since the price just drastically dropped and there is a new juicy front page link that hasn’t been picked up by the bot yet. Is this wrong? Maybe, but all’s fair in love and BlogShares.
In other meta-news I stole some buttons from the incredible Eric, but the real reason was I have a strange irrational desire to please this thing.
I better get to sleep though. I’m sitting in a rehearsal at 10, presenting for HPUG at 1, and again at the Web Technology SIG. Stop by HAL-PC if you’re interested.
Mouse Pad
Mouse pads are probably the most personal and often changed components of most people’s computing setup. I have come to the conclusion that every mouse-pad has a story behind it, and I’m curious to hear them. What’s yours?
I’ll start it off. I have two mouse-pads, the first has a Picasso painting on it, Three Musicians. My mother got it for me as a present, and I believe she got it from a museum store. The other one I use at my desktop has each of the Presidents of the United States on it in chronological order. I bought it when I was in Washington D.C. for the G8 camp over the summer, which was a wonderful experience by the way, and we visited the Lincoln Memorial. Your turn. 🙂
Future of Filtering
I wonder how long before filtering techniques start to incorporate some sort of OCR and that’s no longer a loophole. I’m waiting for it in SpamAssassin.
MySQL 4.1
Well everyone and their dog’s host is using MySQL 4.0 now, so in my quest to forever remain on the bleeding edge (and after some local testing) I installed it on the server and it’s humming along nicely. People may think that staying with the latest version is less stable or something, but I’ve been following the 4 branch since it went public and in all that time I’ve only had one problem (with 4.0.4 I believe), and a minute later I just downgraded back to my old version and reported the bug to the mailing list. It was fixed in the next release. What’s that you say? Your host is still on 3.23? You want a query cache and sub-queries and UNION? Well I know a place where the bandwidth flows freely and the software is always up to date. Let me know you’re signing up and I’ll hook you up with a discount. Update: Whoa! Either there’s something wrong with my benchmarks or there have been some major performance improvements in this version. I’m extremely impressed.
Hypothetically
There was once a post here, it’ll come back later.
Playing
The now playing section is now being pinged again.
Slimbrowser
Just found a quite nifty add-on for IE that gives you nicely done tabbed browsing, a sweet search bar, pop-up blocking, some auto-login stuff I haven’t played with yet, and a page zoom. Sound like what you’ve been waiting for? It uses the same engine as IE, so I see now reason why this shouldn’t replace it for me. My only compliant so far is it won’t let me reorder my links toolbar, but I can live with alphabetical. Did I mention it’s freeware? Hat tip: Dougal Campbell. Okay favelets don’t work. Bummer.
Where’d it Go?
I just noticed that an hour is gone! Okay, now I really need to hurry up and get things done. This has been an incredibly productive weekend, but you’ll have to wait a few days to see all the reasons why. 🙂
For Great Justice!
“Again, thank you all so much for the Cybertron sized responce to our story. This is so amazing.” Optimus Prime’s Weblog. Hat tip: Anil.
A Little Late
I totally missed this this April Fool’s gem. In a perfect world Jon would ping Weblogs.com when he updated and roll to the top of my link list.
My Own Medicine
What’s good for the goose… St. Thomas High School (which I didn’t attend) is now compressed and loading using the zlib method which has grown on me since I wrote that article. STHS is the one major client I have that I don’t host (hence the non-mod_gzip compression) which made things very interesting yesterday afternoon when their host moved the site onto a server with PHP 4.0.6, breaking most everything in the process. However the host was very helpful and they handled the situation quickly, upgrading within an hour or so.
One Down
The first paper is done, but I’m going to forego my usual practice of posting them here because I think it’s quite bad. Yes I know that was the original point of posting them, but any writing attempting to tie together Aphra Behn and Immanuel Kant should not see the light of day, much less the web.
Free Cupholders
For a limited time only PhotoMatt.net is offering free cupholders to all Internet Explorer users on Windows. Get ’em while they’re hot! Hat tip: Waxy.
Chilly
Someone must have bumped the thermostat upstairs, because it has gotten quite chilly around here, at least compared to how the weather has been for the past few weeks. Time to closet the hawaiian shirts (and certainly the no shirt) and break out the sweaters again.
For Those Lonely Nights
HoldTheButton.com. What else is there to say?
Axis of… What?
Got this from my darling sister, enjoy:
Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the “Axis of Evil”, Libya,China and Syria today announced that they had formed the “Axis of Just as Evil”, which they said would be more evil than the Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address.
Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new Axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. “Right. They are just as evil . . . in their dreams!” declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. “Everybody knows we’re the best evils . . . best at being evil.. . we’re the best.”
Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil. “They told us it was full,” said Syrian President Bashar al- Assad. “An axis can’t have more than three counties”, explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. “This is not my rule, it’s tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil Axis. So, you can only have three, and a secret handshake. Ours is wickedly cool.”
International reaction to Bush’s Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as within minutes, France surrendered.
Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what has become a game of geopolitical chairs. Cuba, Sudan and Serbia announced that they had formed the “Axis of Somewhat Evil”, forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the “Axis of Occasionally Evil”, while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the “Axis of Not So Much Evil Really as Just Generally Disagreeable”.
With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up,Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the “Axis of Countries That Aren’t the Worst But Certainly Won’t Be Asked to Host the Olympics”.
Canada, Mexico and Australia formed the “Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Some Nasty Thoughts About America”, while Scotland, New Zealand and Spain established the “Axis of Countries That Want Sheep to Wear Lipstick”. “That’s not a threat, really, just something we like to do”, said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell.
While wondering if the other nations of the world weren’t perhaps making fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axis, although he rejected the establishment of the “Axis of Countries Whose Names End in ‘Guay”, accusing one of its members of filing a false application. Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges.
Israel, meanwhile, insisted it didn’t want to join any Axis, but privately world leaders said that’s only because no one asked them.
Personal Details
A remark was made to me the other day that there are scarce personal details of me on this site, a fact I can’t deny. This obviously means one of two things:
- My life is so interesting I’m currently in negotiations with MGM over the rights to be used as the basis for the next Bond movie, or
- My life is so incredibly boring that if I were to post details of it here people would actually fall asleep while reading and then the comment section would be full of random letters as a result of people’s heads hitting their keyboards.
The jury is still out on this one. Anyway, so today I was eating a cheese sandwich…