Author name: Arcterex

A Film About a Shark

Time for quickly pimping a website before I head to work this morning. Justin, who runs Chromogenic.net, threw a short film out on his blog. Very cool. I can’t say I actually understand the film mind you, but I understand using cool old visual equipment to create something.

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Not the Best Haircut Apparently

Apparently the haircut I got over the weekend wasn’t the best, or perhaps, was the worst. Personally I don’t care, but it’s interesting to list out people’s rections. Firefly and Mom both said they didn’t like it (but they said it nicely) One comment that “the RCMP look doesn’t work”. One comparison to the Quake

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Friends From Out Of Nowhere

Well tonight was cool, even though the day was busy (got wood out of back yard, helped move baseboards, did some christmas shopping). Iambe and Engel called around 5 and said they were back in town! Of course my first reaction was “come over come over!” with complete disregard for their jet-laggedness or any other

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Accomplishments for the Weekend

Well, at least I got a couple of things done that were on my list. I figure I may as well record them else I’ll get depressed at the lack of progress in things I’ve been seeing in myself lately. First of all I finally finished off (well, almost) the phone/net/cable wiring in the house.

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And the Winner Is….

<drum roll> Mr Robert Scoble or making the most idiotic statement of the year! His “letter to Bill Gates” (his employer) on how to make a cool music player (with which to crush the iPod), included this statement. Open source has become a metaphor for things done in public view with public input. Actually, you’re

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Another Frustrating Day

Yesterday the whole day was spent (for the most part) fighting a fire involving a client, an SSL cert, and IIS and Tomcat. This morning the first thing on my plate was owner of said install decided that the fact that it was sitting there rebooted with IIS not running in the morning it must

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