Dr. Bronner is dead, but has been reincarnated as a PS3 fan. (2008/02/08)
This is absolutely amazing. There’s a guy on a PS3 fan site who is… Well.
[read more...]The Cat In The Hat (2008/02/03)
Molly, it turns out, was indeed not yet spayed. She is now. However, she is the sort of cat who nibbles at stitches, and she now has a nasty-looking incision that went a little septic, but looks to be improving with treatment.
[read more...]Instant Review: No More Heroes (2008/02/01)
So, I figured I’d pick up the game most unlike Endless Ocean.
[read more...]Endless Ocean: Is this even a game? (2008/01/22)
I’m not exactly flush with cash these days, but the new Wii title Endless Ocean just came out, it’s only $30 (most Wii games are $40-50, and many other games are $60 at release), and I had a Best Buy discount card.
[read more...]The cat is dead. Long live the cat! (2008/01/19)
In 1990, or maybe 1991, we got a kitten. He was small and grey; my parents wanted to name him Shadowfax, but I insisted that Greystoke would be a better name. It stuck okay. He turned into an unusually large black and white tuxedo cat, and for the last seventeen years or so, was one of the most fascinating animals I have ever encountered. He was exceptionally tame; not servile, like a dog, but he acted as though he sort of understood that we were the ones making things go. He trusted humans, and put up with a great deal of stuff. He earned his own parody of a verse from Particle Man:
[read more...]Running suexec on OS X 10.5 (Leopard) (2007/11/26)
As posted on macosxhints last time around, OS X ships with Apache configured so that it would use suexec if suexec were installed, which it isn’t.
[read more...]Ian Renert wants me to take down some "defamatory" pages. (2007/11/03)
So, I used to run an ISP, and I still let a couple of the former “customers” keep files on my machine.
[read more...]Trendnet refuses valid rebate... Not this again! (2007/10/28)
So, a while back, I wanted an 8-port gigabit switch, so I got a TrendNet which was $30 – $59.99, with a $30 mail-in rebate.
[read more...]Point and click adventures are back! (2007/10/25)
I admit it: I’ve been a sucker for point-and-click adventure games for years. From Loom to Monkey Island, from Myst to the recent Sam & Max, I’ve played a huge number of these, and liked many of them. Some suck. Some are pretty good except for one bit or another – which sucks.
[read more...]Okay, this is ridiculous. (2007/10/22)
Hard drive capacities, as just about everyone knows, are given in base-10 gigabytes: 1,000,000,000 bytes. So, a 500GB drive is 500,000,000,000 bytes. Operating systems tend to use base-2 gigabytes, which are (1024*1024*1024) bytes – about 7% larger.
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