Artful spammers
I’m used to getting a lot of spam. The vast majority of it gets filtered out. Just now one slipped by my filter and I was about to delete it, when I highlighted it and saw it in my mail client’s preview pane. Now, usually spammers will add all kinds of junk characters to the […]
boy, windows can be good and yet so stupid.
How is it that with all of the cool new stuff that Microsoft has done to Windows, the Fonts control panel and installation screen has not changed in over 10 years?!
from the “ticket systems that are a ripoff” department
I’ve long hated movietickets.com. Every single movie at Famous Players has their ad in front of it, trumpeted about how easy it is, how you don’t have to line up, etc etc. What a crock of shit. I’ve never had to line up for tickets for two reasons: I always use the automated ticket machines […]
breaking the habit
Not smoking, thank goodness, but caffeine. My three coffee per day average is not a good thing. I blame the rich, smooth flavour of the free Starbucks at work though, not my own weak will to resist it. Anyways. Instead of having a coffee-coffee-coffee day I’m going to start having a coffee-coffee-green tea day. Green […]
ideas
I get tons of ideas. Mostly for software, web services, and the like. It’s kind of like I’m always thinking about how things can be improved, or what I want my computers to do and how to make it happen. The vast majority of these things never get done, because I forget them or I […]
Felix
This is Felix, our latest addition. I totally can’t remember if I’ve posted a photo of him before, so here it is. Felix is a bit of a special cat. He is a polydactyl cat, meaning that he has extra toes on his feed. In his case, he has two extra toes on his left […]
I’m still around
as you likely already know, we power-hungry North-Easters sent ourselves spiraling into a blackout on Thursday. I was at work when it happened. At first we thought we had just tripped a local breaker, but then the UPSes in the nearby machine room began their bleeping chorus. It took about an hour an a half […]
media does not live forever
Today I discovered that one of my MP3 CDs has two lateral cracks in the hub of the CD. (Photos to follow later today when I can get them off of my camera). This is the first time I’ve even seen that happen before. Time to make a new CD! (update Aug 14) ah, here’s […]
I’ve discovered Advance Wars. Advance Wars is very, very addictive. I believe I’ve failed to mention that we now have a second fish tank. This is just a little 10 gallon one that has five dwarf puffers in it. The puffers are pretty cool little fish: they’re kinda chubby and sort of flutter around in […]
tired old webcomics
I’m getting pretty tired of Sluggy Freelance. Actually, I’ve been getting pretty tired of it for a while now. When I started reading it back in 1998, it was funny, there weren’t too many characters, and the plotlines were easy to follow. I think I lost the plot somewhere in 2001, and there are about […]
