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.
[read more...]I am the king of all packrats. (2007/09/19)
So, I’ve been going through my old computer stuff. (Suffice it to say that the pile’s noticably bigger than it was last time.)
[read more...]New house! (2007/09/14)
We bought a house! We are moving to Northfield, MN, a small town where they have an annual celebration of the last recorded homicide, a tad over a hundred years ago.
[read more...]King of the hill (2007/09/13)
I’m donating my old computer stuff that I never use to Computer Heaven, a local computer-recycling place.
[read more...]Support the troops! (2007/09/07)
So, I’ve been talking of late to a friend who is in the military, and talking about things like Afghanistan (did you know that the US is involved in military action over there?) and Iraq (you probably heard about that one).
[read more...]Very Silly Party (2007/08/18)
I get comment spammers. Mostly I just nuke them. This one was spamming some site, but the name was great. This was the spammer’s “user name”:
[read more...]I think it's plagiarism, but I'm not sure. (2007/08/03)
So, the New Yorker’s article on spam may contain plagiarism. What’s weird about this is that the source (Spamhaus) has blanket permission to quote them with attribution, but that the quoted material, rather than being attributed, is very slightly modified.
[read more...]Woah. (2007/08/01)
Local bridge collapses, during rush hour. I don’t yet know of anyone I know who was there at the time, but it’s still pretty scary.
[read more...]Lolcat an sich! (2007/05/31)
Okay, so, lolcode is an attempt to build a programming language from lolcat captions. (One can only assume that this suggests a return to the older term for them: “cat macros”.)
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