A recent Slashdot discussion included an amusing thread about what kind of Artists programmers would be if programming was Fine Art. Hacked, collated and slashed into a tidy list with additions of my own, here is ( Read more... )

Today was a mixed day. Work went well (modulo the normal emergencies). But on the drive home I (without any warning what-so-ever) found myself coughing and trying not to drive off the road from my reaction to the gastric juices that had just decided to visit my mouth and lungs. Breathing Vomit == Nothing Good. I'm just lucky my mouth was closed or ( Read more... )

Sunbunny's laptop has built-in 802.11b wireless capability which (not having wireless installed at home) has never been of much use.

So, since I wanted to take the 200Mhz Pentium Pro Linux machine I've been using as a firewall, NAT and backups server for the last few years offline and rebuild her as a dedicated backups server anyway, I bought a ( Read more... )

Yesterday AT&T network services left a message on my voice mail saying that they were going to do maintenance on the power at the hosting facility where we host our servers and they suggested that we turn off all equipment that wasn't on a UPS. When I got this voice mail it was only 14 hours before they were going to do it - at 12:30 am to 1:00 am ( Read more... )

Opened my bedroom door this morning to see two cats and Sunbunny waiting outside again. First time since the last journal entry ( Read more... )

When I woke up this morning, I opened my bedroom door to find (as expected) two cats, and (unexpectedly) my wife, Sunbunny, all sitting outside the door waiting for me to get up ( Read more... )

Ok, I have to confess: I liked The Matrix. And The Matrix Reloaded. And The AniMatrix. And the Enter the Matrix game. They all were interesting and fun. And so when Matrix Revolutions came out on DVD I went ahead and bought it in spite of having heard poor reviews of the movie.

My mistake.

Here is my summary of the movie:

1. Rescue Neo (the ( Read more... )

Sunbunny didn't know about Googlebombing. Googlebombing is where people who have control of enough web sites trick Google into linking a phrase such as miserable failure to something such that Google returns the desired thing when queried. So I'm helping her out. >:)

In spite of the military having instituted various 'stop-loss' orders,
where people who's enlistments would normally be up can't leave the
services, the Army Reserve and National Guard still failed to reach
recruiting/retention goals for 2003. By 6% for the Army Reserve and 13% for the
National Guard.

Conceptually, you can think of these kind of ' ( Read more... )

artemii reposted a long article claiming to show how Amina Lawal wasn't really at risk of being stoned because it was inevitable that the civil court system in Nigeria would overturn the sentence as against Nigerian federal law.

I remembered having seen articles that showed that followers of Sharia law often ignore civil court ruling overturning ( Read more... )