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- The festivities have all ended, and the kids are all busy playing with all their new toys. It was a good day. Brandon really showed a lot more enthusiasm towards opening presents than I thought he wou... |
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- I spent this evening assembling monsters, dragons and "slayers" from some fantasy-game I bought for Quinton. He and Jack are... |
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- Andrea said I ain't blogged in a while. Welp, I'm just sittin' in the chair thinking about giong to taking... |
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- I have come to enjoy saying "Merry Christmas", now that it has become such a subversive and reactionary formulation. This transformation is still incomplete and unevenly distributed, but even now about 20% of the time you can see a small,... |
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- I'm thinking of that song from "West Side Story." I've often felt out of place, out of time -- born... |
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- Oh boy. That is dreadful. This picture alone should convince the |
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- [QUOTE] [B]You would all be soooo surprised if I told you who |
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- Christmas Eve was hectic... lots of buying, wrapping, neighbors, friends and general merriment. Fell asleep on the couch after almost forgetting to hang the stockings with care. |
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- 'Exposed' e-mail addresses covered up. Amazon.com has apparently taken note of consumers who have been complaining that a programming error allowed any anonymous user to view a customer's e-mail address. According to this ongoing thread in our stopping spam forum, some users ceased doing.. |
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- On Bugbear, on Blaster, on Sobig, on Slammer. 2003 was the "worst year ever" for viruses and worms according to security analysts. Worms caused billions in damage throughout the year, and their subsequent variants often crippled everything from ATM machines to anti-spam websites. Slammer showe.. |
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- TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A severe earthquake hit the historic city of Bam in southeast Iran on Friday, and the regional governor told state media that many people were killed or buried. Iranian television said the magnitude 6.3 quake leveled about 60 percent of the houses in Bam, 630 miles southeast of the capital, killing many people as they slept. |
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- Le gouvernement guinen a estim que l'lectorat s'est "fortement mobilis" pour la prsidentielle de dimanche, alors que l'opposition, qui avait appel au boycott, considre qu'il n'y a "pas eu d'lection". Aucun chiffre, aucune estimation de la participation au niveau national n'tait disponible dans la soire, et les rsultats officiels ne devraient pas tre annoncs avant plusieurs jours. |
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- A hearty Merry Christmas to all. Christmas for me went very well. My mother-in-law and her husband flew up from Florida for a few weeks. We had the big festivities Christmas Eve although the kids opened stocking and a few... |
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- I see my mother on a regular basis these days. Not because I go to the parents' house, or because she comes to see me for my wonderful self. She does come to me -- for my phone.My mother isn't the most compromosing person. When she thinks a company is in the wrong -- even when she really is -- she won't pay a bill. |
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Making luck (Dec 26 2003 01:51 GMT) - USS Clueless, with regard to the capture of Saddam Hussein, mentions “how 4th Division made its own luck”. That’s an... |
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- It sounds like great fun. Knoxville airport has the most |
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The Loot (Dec 26 2003 01:50 GMT) - Well, for anyone interested in what I got this year, here's the list: a black sweater, an NNU Crusaders keychain,... |
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- Eurooppalaiset avaruustutkijat eivät ole saaneet yhteyttä Mars-luotain Beagle 2:een. Eilen Marsiin laskeutuneeseen luotaimeen on yritetty luoda yhteyttä |
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- Suomessa ammutaan vuodenvaihteessa arviolta runsaan 10 miljoonan euron edestä raketteja taivaalle. Ilotuliteala on siinä mielessä erikoinen, että |
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Weakness (Dec 26 2003 01:49 GMT) - Just after thanksgiving, Trouble came down with some awful bug. Shaking chills, a cough, and sleeping something like 18 hours a day for four days. It sucked and I got to feel smugly superior because I assumed it was the... |
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- With the holidays rushing toward us, it should be a quiet time in the tech industry, but a slew of recent developments in the battle over UNIX and Linux ensures that anyone with a stake in this conflict will have some unsettling news to mull over. This week, computing giant Novell revealed that it has spent the past few months quietly registering for the UNIX copyrights the SCO Group claims to own, copyrights SCO has used as a basis for its attack on Linux, a UNIX clone. |
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- Now you can see what I am trying to read (thanks to Hanna for the design inspiration). Except that I spent the whole afternoon hacking the design instead of reading. Bad, bad. |
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- A top treasury official yesterday ruled that new government computers should run on Linux instead of Microsoft Windows, but IDC Israel manager Gideon Lopez dismisses the whole thing as a ploy. By Zuri Dar (Haaretz Daily via MyAppleMenu Linux News) |
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- By Matt Whipp (PC Pro via MyAppleMenu Linux News) |
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- Wow such an afternoon we had! We ate, we played word games, we opened gifts, and we laughed. My brother and his lady joined us for dinner. I had a poem ready describing our Eve festivities but some where between... |
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- younger DS did have a belt, he forgot it at the |
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- I posted another thread about the crazy mom in the airport |
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- M is standing on my right, seranading me with the acoustic guitar - a running commentary about how it's too hot to build kitchens, his fat pet magpies, dry grass... He is right (occasionally it happens). It is TOO HOT.... |
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- M is standing on my right, seranading me with the acoustic guitar - a running commentary about how it's too hot to build kitchens, his fat pet magpies, dry grass... He is right (occasionally it happens). It is TOO HOT.... |
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PilRC (Dec 26 2003 01:44 GMT) - I'm sorry for not updating much lately. My life has been very busy. One of those tasks was getting PilRC 3.0 completed. With the expert help of John Marshall of prc-tools fame, version 3. |
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- Duh. So many configuration options, and having the most obvious come unset by some accident wasted more effort than figuring out how to do Frontier includes. |
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Idol hands (Dec 26 2003 01:42 GMT) - Wow. There's nothing like spending 4 crooked hours jumping from blog to blog, soaking in others' vicarious partying. I know... Wow. There's nothing like spending 4 crooked hours jumping from blog to blog, soaking in others' vicarious partying. |
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