Even though long ago I wrote that I’d never have banner ads on a site of mine, I do now. Because I’m a whore. But as I said on UFies, on the other hand this’ll hopefully help me out with a bit of extra money so that I can keep the server up and running […]
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Finally got sick and tired of getting “oversized record” messages from Webalizer each morning from it trying to process Apache logs with lines 3000+ charachers long, mostly consisting of “\x0\x0” characters…. obviously automated zombies trying to exploit IIS vulnerabilities. Learned a bare minimum of iptables to put in a bunch of block rules, and it
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Dear Bill. Thank you again for adding scripting support to such wonderful programs as Microsoft word, allowing someone else to pass me a lovely W97M/Marker Word macro virus, which helpfully asks me if I’d like to wish Shankar a happy birthday twice each time I open or close a document. This has let me not
Thanks Again Microsoft Read Post »
I will attempt to compress my three day ordeal to try to re-insure my car into just a few bullet points. It started of course with it breaking down on Sunday. Monday and tuesday it was in the shop, but tuesday night I got it back. When I first got into the car there was
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Just heard from Pat over at the service place… sounds like the timing belt didn’t do any engine damage….. Whohohooo! This makes me especially happy after asking for a worst case senario and hearing “new engine” 🙂 I am still going to eat a big bill as I’m getting them to do some of the
Timing Belt Good News Read Post »
I’m in the middle of doing some importing of entries from back before MovableType (B.M.) and noticed that my review of Microsoft’s Media Player 7 is pretty close to that of Media Player 10, just put a bit more “to the point.” My $DEITY what was microsoft thinking when they released that piece of shit?
Bah, only four months after my last bout of car problems, I was struck again. Coming home from my folks after an awsome chicken dinner, just hitting the bypass the car stalled. Luckily right at a light, so after a couple of minutes of asking it really nicely to turn over, I pushed it off
Picture of the boys (Duane, Eldon, Alan, Shaun, and Neil) playing around at Hicks Lake yesterday.
I guess I don’t learn… me and the sun just don’t mix. Maybe that’s why I took on the life of a programmer, sitting in dark, sunless areas with nothing around me to change my skin from white but the radiation slowly seeping from my monitors. On Cat5’s suggestion a bunch of people headed up
So, Doom3 finally is done. Congrats to the iD team on their four years of work on a brand new game engine and a brand new game with a different direction (though not completely different direction) than their last one. So now I have to make the decision of do I insure my car for
Doom 3 Gone Gold, Finally! Read Post »