I love inventing FTL drives. (2010/09/08)
So, one of the recurring needs for science fiction stories is some way to travel faster than light, without which interstellar travel is impossible, and this tends to gravely undermine many awesome story ideas.
[read more...]More thoughts about Real ID (2010/09/06)
A while back, I quit World of Warcraft over Real ID. A few days after this, Blizzard announced that they were not, at least for the moment, going to go ahead with the announced plan to move all their forums over to posting exclusively under peoples’ “real names” (by which they mean “the name registered to the account, whether or not it is your legal name”).
[read more...]How to use OS X Server's built-in spamd (2010/09/02)
So, I’m now using OS X Server for a machine which does some email processing, but for Various Diverse Reasons, it is beneficial to me to be able to use the spamc client directly, which means I need to have spamd running. Luckily, someone else cleverly already solved this problem, producing a launchd .plist file for spamd.
Bye, Newegg. We liked you when you were still good. (2010/08/30)
So, Newegg started sending spam.
[read more...]How to respond to software "piracy" (2010/08/27)
A software developer sent an unusual copyright-related demand to The Pirate Bay – he feels that the attempted crack of his shareware application was of poor quality and ultimately mockable.
[read more...]Hearing music is so very, very, weird. (2010/08/24)
So, they’re still messing around with ADHD drugs and dosage. Currently, the experiment is bupropion (aka wellbutrin and about 6 other brand names), which tends to increase availability of dopamine and norepinephrine.
[read more...]Might have to start doing this again... (2010/08/22)
So, I recently read an interesting book (Pragmatic Thinking & Learning), and it’s gotten me to thinking about the whole blog thing. I have a hard time remembering to do things that don’t call themselves to my attention, but I really enjoy the sort of thinking-out-loud that a blog provides, so I think I’m going to start trying to remember to post more often, possibly even setting up reminders so that this happens automatically.
[read more...]So long, and thanks for all the fishing dailies... (2010/07/07)
A few years back, I decided that I wanted to try one of these Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs). After some poking around, and research, I settled on World of Warcraft. My reasons at the time were simple; Blizzard had a stellar track record of doing their best to make every game solid, well-considered, well-planned, and so on.
[read more...]Hey, Google: Being evil is not just doing evil (2010/02/12)
Google’s corporate motto is, officially, “don’t be evil”.
[read more...]The No Asshole Rule (2010/02/01)
I recently picked up a copy of Robert Sutton’s book The No Asshole Rule.
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