Try erasing carpet. Works best on that extremely-shallow-pile industrial and school carpet.

It is easy to hack unencrypted Gmail. In two weeks it will be even easier, when the Gmail Hacking Tool is released.

Why You Should Turn Gmail's SSL Feature On Now

https, everyone.

Ok, two things. I spent four days in Cape Cod without internet or my laptop power brick, and now I'm in a house where internet access is limited and other people are using it all the time for legitimate purposes, such as job-hunting. (I can't hook my laptop up to the house's wireless, for mysterious but apparently complicated reasons...meh, I ( Read more... )

I have returned from the depths of Southern California.

I spent the vast majority of my time either asleep or reading -- either way, in air conditioning. On the minus side, the hotel room got to feel really confining. On the plus side, I finished 2.5 books, and I can now declare Terry Pratchett's Interesting Times and Douglas Hofstadter's ( Read more... )

Family is off to Southern CA for four days. We'll be back Sunday evening. I don't know if there will be internets -- probably limited to checking email.

I'm bringing 4 books with me...7 if you count notebooks with significant amounts of content.

I'm going to be at Relay for Life (cancer fundraiser thingy) for the next 24 hours.

...that should have come long, long ago ( Read more... )

Apparently it has been declared National De-Lurking Week. I doubt anyone's here I don't know about, but if you haven't commented before please do.

I'm going to be on the East Coast, visiting relatives, from tomorrow morning till January 4th (iirc). Interet access will be limited and sporadic.

Also, it's fun to try and imagine your friends drunk, and then get really hyper and see how close the reality is to the image. (This only works if you're under 21 and not party people.)

Short version: I'll be on AIM only very sporadically until TBD.

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