Monthly Archive: October 2002

So one good thing at least has come of the sad sports frenzy engulfing San Francisco for this “World Series”. Driving into the city tonight there were so many blimps and helicopters buzzing and...

Not for nothing did Stephen King call his writing-obsessed fan book Misery. With so many formerely disfiguring diseases easily cured, exhibiting gross physical externalities is no longer titillating. So we turn instead to the...

So, I think I got a porno spam, but it’s hard to tell, seeing as how it arrived in German… Unlike Swedish, unfortunately, the German language just doesn’t see to lend itself to the...

So I added some new functionality to the site: a bulletin board system. If I can figure out the API I can inject the subject direcly into the posted message and replace the dotcomments,...

So me and Lisa were shopping in the local lesbian health food co-op, Rainbow Foods, and amidst all the granola there are some extremely dubious items. Like, what’s going on when there is chipotle...

So now that I read that Madonna’s latest gambit to break into movies has failed, utterly, I wonder how long before she discards the drained husk that was Guy Ritchie, Hot New Edgy Film...

So I’m back from Vegas and my immediate impression was that it’s a bit like being at Black Rock City (Burning Man), only with less nudity but more fake boobs. The exploding stuff and...

Next stop… the Flamingo. Where did I leave that Elvis mask?

Well, I’ve managed to crap out my router at home by adjusting *one* *little* *setting*. I was trying to set up a VPN endpoint. Now I’m stuck in work and there’s no way to...

Oh dear, although Zona’s product is written largely in Java, the client and server APIs are written in C++ (for the game coders). I’d forgotten just how damn ugly and complex C++ was compared...