Random Stuff

Damn, someone beat me to it. Originally I had posted this entry as a reminder to myself to post a picture of scoble dressed up like the MSN butterfly thing, but somehow it was posted as live instead of draft, so whoever saw it just saw a copy of the blog entry that I had […]

If you’re wondering what to get me, please consider the Robosapien, quite possibly the coolest looking toy ever. It actually looks surprisingly like a cool robotic arm I used to have as a kid, which you could control with two joysticks.

Darren Barefoot is for collecting donations to help pay for the cost of sending flowers to random couples (gay and straight) in San Fransisco. It’s a pretty cool idea, and many thanks to Darren for recognizing the problem with delivery cost and helping to fix it. On a similar note, Kethryvis pointed out this website

Wow, the image of the day today is of an F-16 Thunderbird pilot just as he ejects. The info link has video and other pics. Oh, and UFies appears to be crashed/halted/offline. Great. Probably the box is getting scared because today it has to go home. I’m sure it’ll be rebooted soon and come up

Through a post on Nat.org I ran through Katrin.is. I’d say that she’s a very interesting person, with an interesting life, but I’d only be half sure. Seeing as I don’t read Icelandic it was a bit hard to figure out exactly what was going on. However, it was pretty neat to try. Going purely

I don’t know if I should be surprised or impressed or not, but I have to say I was happy to get a call this afternoon from my building manager saying he’d gotten the request for work order I had dropped off (around 10 the night before, dropped off to the local building manager, the

To go with Dana’s presentation /. linked to a good article on analyzing a spam compromise where a machine was attacked and used to send spam. This article goes through the detection and analysis. Very interesting!

New version of Gallery released. I’ve updated my install with one of there pre-packaged looks.

This is new…. providing useful information in spam. I just got an email with the following: Subject: Broken link in www.arcterex.net There appears to be a problem on this page of your site.   On page http://www.arcterex.net/news-to-98.html   when you click on “me”,   the link to http://www.arcterex.net/alan@northco.net   gives the error: Not found.   Suggestion: You may have forgotten

When I saw Richie’s post about how he got an automated roomba Robotic Floorvac I was interested… get ’em at costco, not clean, heck, it does hardwood it says, so I could let it loose in the apartment and not worry about dust and cat hair…. But then I read about how smart they are