ISSN 1496-3221
April 4, 2005
If you’re not able see any of my Recently Flickr’d images at the moment (or were Flickrless at some other point today), it appears that a sporadic DNS gremlin has been yanking their tail. I wasn’t able to load any images served from the Flickr site via my office connection, but here at the home … More
March 28, 2005
It’s not every year the incremental value of your age corresponds to the answer to life, the universe, and everything, but then again, I’m afraid that you can’t much control that sort of thing anyway. Since it is simply impossible for me not to be 42 this year, I shall enjoy the rather nice coincidence … More
March 27, 2005
Ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora. This is a Latin saying which translates into something akin to ‘… eggs today are better than chickens tomorrow’. It’s sort of a ‘bird in the hand’ kind of thing, I suppose. Happy Easter.
March 24, 2005
Damn. I had no idea that Toast used HFS rather than HFS+ for the Mac OS portion of custom hybrid discs. Normally, this isn’t an issue since I’m often compiling batches of data that fit comfortably onto a CD-sized partition. But since beginning to work on a number of DVD-based masters, I ran smack dab … More
March 23, 2005
FlickrBlog: Being owned by Yahoo fails to prevent hard drive failures. I feel their pain. If the movers and shakers at Yahoo won’t protect you and your loved ones from toasted drive syndrome, the very least they could do it provide funding for a decent failover system. In the meantime, while you’re waiting for your … More
March 20, 2005
Well, there you go. After all the mumbling, Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr. I’ll think I’ll just sit back and trust the Ludicorp gang telling me that things won’t get all futzed up just because some of the new owners wear suits. Most of the time, change is actually a good thing. One promising tidbit … More
March 18, 2005
Have I ever mentioned how much I appreciate having SpamSieve working for me? Well, let me just do that right now. Thank you Michael Tsai, thank you. I get a crudload of spam across my numerous email accounts and have been practically giddy about how well SpamSieve does keeping up with the onslaught. 99.6% accuracy? … More
March 18, 2005
Three things. A mountie in full dress uniform, Her Majesty the Queen, and a vintage Lincoln convertible with suicide doors.
February 17, 2005
To all those concerned, my apologies for the lengthy server outage today. It seems that a combination of larger than normal log files, combined with some new referrer filter settings caused this machine to gracelessly fubar itself last night during the regularly scheduled log rollover. Thanks to the many understanding folks (read: concerned hostees) who … More
February 4, 2005
After years of being able to purchase nothing but simple, ass-kicking Macintosh software from the gang at Panic, you can finally purchase their simple, ass-kicking t-shirts from their brand spanking new PanicGoods store. Even if you’re not in the market for another geeky tee, at least stick around long enough to play with their super … More