Year 2005

Monster.

I hope they catch and publically flog the idiot responsible for perpetrating this fake military death notification. I will never understand the depravity of some people.

Jumpin’ Jehosophat!

I sure could get into some trouble ’round the office with one of these rapid-fire badboys: Firewheel Rubber Band Gun Somehow I doubt I’d be able to expense it, though…

Sabayon: GNOME-Centric SysAdmin’s Dream Come True

The Sabayon project looks very, very promising for sysadmins (like me) who have a large population of GNOME users whose desktops the admins want to autoconfigure. Although I deplore GConf (it’s basically a Windows Registry, implemented in flat text files…

Brilliant!

It seems as though Tim Blair has stumbled upon the transcripts of the ever-nefarious Karl Rove’s brainstorming sessions in preparation for the execution of Rathergate. The fiend! Heh.

Web Designers, Your Book Has Arrived

Any web developer worth his or her salt these days has familiarized themselves with CSS, which adds great depth and complexity to the site designs and layouts possible in modern browsers. Those same developers may well be familiar with the…

Vaguely Disturbing/Humorous Spam Email Of The Day

The following spam email: Subject: Re: Slutty Housewires Cheats on husband [emphasis mine. -ed.] From: Concern R. Inclosed < [email address deleted]> To: [me] Message: What are the washing instructions? [spam link clipped] The less routine the more life. Uvidimsja…

Uh Oh.

EB just called. My Gran Turismo 4 preorder just came in. On an unrelated note, I’ve got to, ummm, be, uhhhh, somewhere else right now…