...and apparently the culprit was in India. Now all the little ads at the top of the page are in Sanskrit. That at least lets me know that it was a web assault, rather than someone sniffing tokens in my neighborhood. And it was an exciting half hour making changes and saying thank you to everyone that let me know they were being spammed from my ( Read more... )

Busy, busy, busy.

Were catching up on things undone since the start of the PhD push. Paperwork, housework, home repair, and long-term planning projects are falling like autumn leaves. Saw our godson on Saturday and went to the Discovery Museums in Acton. Great place for toddlers and little kids. Spent the day in the Discovery side. I want to take ( Read more... )

The used car market is not conducive to creating good salespeople. Normally, I accept this stoically. But on those rare occasions that I need to buy a car, it annoys me on a deep and viceral level ( Read more... )

My car has been on the fritz for a few weeks now. The week before Christmas the radiator started to do strange things. The heat would stop working and the temperature gage would peg on H. My mechanic put some more coolant in the tank and it seemed to stop. Then the car died on Christmas morning. Same thing, no heat, H on the gauge, lots of steam ( Read more... )

So V has started on solids. And one of the side effects of solids can be constipation. I'll spare you the details, but last night was trying ( Read more... )

The C Programming Language By HP Lovecraft et al.

Fear
Thanks for all the input. I've gotten to follow up with exactly none of you. The fear comes and goes. I just need to keep finding ways to work though it.

Ritual AftermathWe had a releasing fire on Sunday night. I burnt all my journals. It feels like I've cleared out 15 years worth of space in my head. I've had the most amazing, tumbling, full ( Read more... )

I've been an IE guy for years. It was slow, chunky, but always got done what I needed. I tried Firefox, but it didn't seem to give me anything that IE didn't (or at least that it wouldn't after the next upgrade ( Read more... )

Yesterday, for no apparent reason, I could not connect my development environment to my DB. I think it had to do with installing some service patches and resetting some preferences. No problem, I thought. After poking around in the guts of both programs I surmised that a clean install would be easier and faster. But, my copy of my dev platform ( Read more... )

Somehow when I updated my computer it removed all the administrator permissions from my programs, meaning some of my development tools were failing in spectacular and opaque ways. I've found the error, but that was time I would have preferred to have spent, I don't know, actually working.

Grump.