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...

So I am working again — no mean feat in this lousy Silicon Valley economy, for a video game infrastructure company: Zona Inc. They make a high throughput, low latency back-end server for online...