The sticky notes at the front of the page
for my 3 MPs (no, not my MP3s...)
Blogroll has moved to a
new page. It was just too huge (close to 1000 blogs in Bloglines) and helps the page load time tremendously. Blogrolling.com just sucks, and Bloglines has too much. Oh, and I have updated Blogrolling.
Have a nice day!
Sunday, April 25
Weirdness.
I have upgraded to Mozilla 1.7RC1
First, there's a bug where if you save images (and evidently pages) that are in the cache, you get an error, but it worked anyways. Filed a bug, and it came back marked as a dupe. After I searched and searched and searched to find the original. :(
Now there's a problem with editing this blog. The frame for the text editing is all out of whack. I have to scroll, but
there are no scroll bars! Scrolling with the wheel mouse works. Otherwise I'd be unable to enter this entry!
It feels a little faster, and some issues I've had with 1.6 have disappeared.
Hope that either Mozilla or Blogger get things straightened out.
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Thursday, April 22
Gmail
I found out today that
Google is offereing
Gmail accounts to
Blogger accounts who are established
and active, and I'm both.
My Gmail address is bytehead (at) gmail.com.
I signed up as soon as I heard. I wouldn't have been worried about getting Bryan.Price. Of course, if I just wanted Bryan that might have been a problem as well. I really didn't want my fallback name of cmhbytehead. So now I'm happy. Now I just have to remember to login every now and then and see what new email I have.
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 4/22/2004 08:32:00 PM
Misc. stuff
Me
I hurt. More than one extremity too. The step daughter managed to trip me as I was trying to get dinner finished last night. Twisted my knee, with a nice scrape beside it, fell against my CD rack and scraped my upper arm and scratched my forearm. This after already putting blisters on my left hand sweeping the driveway and smashing my thumb with the hammer trying to drive a nail that The_Rose wanted driven to get the said step daughter's bedroom door frame correctly in place. Of course, it's twisted. Got the outside looking fair, but the inside is still showing a gap that still exists. I'm taking 800MG of Ibuprofen that Garfield never took.
Critters
I'm getting complaints that Greybeard isn't acting too well. He's probably eaten something that disagrees with him. I haven't seen him all day, so I can't tell. I was out with Grizelle for awhile this afternoon, and she was loving it. Mostly laid under my Airondock chair in my shadow.
Hairy is still hollering for no good reasons. He was hollering today in the dining room where no other person or animal was. I went in to see what was going on, and he just sat there and looked at me. Weird cats.
Garfield
He called twice yesterday. The first time The_Rose wasn't home (she was taking hattrick to Scouts), and then he called when she had
just got home. He's homesick, that's for sure. He's sent us a letter, but it hasn't gotten here yet. I figure it will hit Saturday, because it just takes 5+ days to get mail to/from here to anywhere else except for local stuff. When I lived in Columbus I was used to first class mail taking two days to get anywhere. Except for here. It's said when I can send a letter to Los Angelos and get a reply back, before I can get a letter to Jacksonville.
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 4/22/2004 08:31:00 PM
Wednesday, April 21
Archival: Draft registration dates of men never required to register
From:
Howstuffworks* Men born from March 29, 1957 to December 31, 1959 were never required to register because the registration program was not in operation at the time they turned 18. The requirement to register was reinstated in 1980 and applies to all men born on or after January 1, 1960.
I knew this because I wasn't required to register, but I never knew the actual dates. Now I know
Relevant Link
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 4/21/2004 04:55:00 PM
Tuesday, April 20
My Political Compass
From :
The Political CompassMy Political Compass is like
this returns a 404this (updated link) (I thought it was a graphic, but it's a web page :( )
Which puts me pretty much in the same neighborhood as Ghandi!
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Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 4/20/2004 11:15:00 PM
Random blithering
Garfield
He's left the building, and is now being indoctrinated at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO starting his training as a soldier and MP.
Animal personalities
The cats have been offering all sorts of amusement lately. Hairy has been yelling mercilously at me the past few days. I make sure he has food and water, and then I see if he just wants attention. Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't. I have no idea what he's wanting. It's a pain to hear him yelling in the bathroom at 3AM just because I got up to pee in the middle of the night.
Sparx brought some KFC honey barbecued wings and offered me a taste. I ate one, wasn't impressed, and tried to throw the bones away. Hairy, smelling the food had been hollering for a taste. Well, I missed the trash can, and he literally pounced on it. This being the middle part of the wing, with the two bones, we were left with
one bone left to clean up after. I really wasn't that worried about the bones when he grabbed it, since I knew he had been getting into people's garbage for food before, so I figured he'd know better. The next day, he's coughing up clear foamy fluid. I'm thinking, oh my God, is this cat going to survive the bone? Three times he did this. The next day, he acted like he was going to do the same thing, although right before that, it sounded like a human inhaling through his nose and sucking down nasal congestion. I have a feeling, it was just that. Mucus from his sinuses, which meant that he must have been feeling pretty horrid from it. I've been suffering from a cold this past week, so I can comiserate. He's been fine since.
This morning, we had the windows and doors open, airing out the house a little bit. Grizelle, Ms. Imperious came in through an open door, ate some food, drank some water, and then marched past the open kitchen door, the open TV room door, into the computer room to demand that I open the front door for her to be let out. I thought she might just be wanting attention, but no, she didn't want to be held. She wanted out the front door. Damn cat!
Then later I go outside watching Greybeard go hunting for lizards. He gives up and gives me some loving around the ankles and goes to lay down, just enjoying being out with me. Something both kittens love to do. After getting some other chores done, and dragging the two final empty trash cans back to the house, I pick him up, and he decides to wrap himself around my neck and rub his face against my hair and shoulders, trying to root a bit, purring up a storm, and just have a ball. I showed The_Rose what was going on, but as soon as he saw her, he jumped down, like he didn't know who she was. He went to her, rubbed her ankles, and let her pick him up for a minute. Then he had had enough. We went to lunch after that.
Kali's been just weird. Sunday, right before I was taking my shower, I was scratching her head, and while it wasn't loud (I felt it, and had to put my ear down to hear it) she was actually purring. That's something that I don't think she's really done since the kittens entered the house, a year ago.
Overall, Hairy tolerates Grizelle and Greybeard, Greybeard mostly tolerates Hairy, Grizelle and Greybeard are fine with Kali, in fact they would love it if she would play with them, and Kali's finally tolerating them for the most part, although Kali seems to tolerate Greybeard a little better. He's actually snuck up on her close enough to play with her tail, and when Kali found out, she didn't get too mad. Kali absolutely does not like Hairy, and I'm not sure what Hairy's take on Kali is. When there's a fight (we hear one about every other day), it's between those two. And I'm not so sure that it's a fight, but somebody (Hairy it sounds like) ends up screaming. Of course, Hairy screams even if you step on one of his tufts of hair on his foot, not on his foot.
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Monday, April 19
A Book Exercise
from
apophenia:
A BOOK EXERCISE
From Caterina:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Just as we are afraid of ghosts and of the God of the panopticon insofar as they are imaginary non-entities - that is, because they do not exist - so, according to lacan, we love God precisely because he does not exist.
I had to fudge it. The first two books i picked up didn't have 5 sentences on page 23. Leave it to Derrida and JL Austin to have rather long sentences that fill the page. Thus, i went with Bentham's "The Panopticon Writings" (which were out due to a recent debate with my roommate).
Here is a summary of C statements, in terms of keywords.
"The Waite Group's Microsoft C Bible"
Damn, am I a geek or what? At least a bytehead? <SNORT>
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 4/19/2004 01:48:00 PM
Sunday, April 18
MSNBC - Should I Stay or Should I Go?
From
MSNBC - Should I Stay or Should I Go?:
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Sending jobs offshore to countries like India seemed like a sure bet. Now, some firms are having second thoughts.
A nice article on the perils of outsourcing
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 4/18/2004 04:45:00 PM
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Friday, April 16
Here Comes the Judge
From
Here Comes the Judge:
Here Comes The Judge
One jurist's lament over — and challenge to — the recently-enacted Telecommications Act.
By Steven Russell
You motherfuckers in Congress have dropped over the edge of the earth this time. I understand that very few of the swarm of high dollar lobbyists around the Telecommunications Bill had any interest in content regulation — they were just trying to get their clients an opportunity to dip their buckets in the money stream that cyberspace may become — but the public interest sometimes needs a little attention. Keeping your eyes on what big money wants, you have sold out the First Amendment.
I love this! Quite a take!
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Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 4/16/2004 01:42:00 PM
Sunday, April 11
Archival: Slashdot | Use Multiple Channels for Faster Wireless Networking
From
Slashdot | Use Multiple Channels for Faster Wireless Networking:
Use Multiple Channels for Faster Wireless Networking
Posted by michael on Sunday April 11, @02:16PM
from the bandwidth-hog dept.
icypyr0 writes "The Register reports: 'Current dual-mode 802.11 'a' and 'b' access points use only one of Wi-Fi's 11 RF channels at a time, with users taking turns. The Engim chipset can 'see' all 11 at once, and can use the three non-overlapping ones (1, 6 and 11) in parallel, increasing total throughput and enabling features to be incorporated in silicon that are usually implemented, at extra cost and performance degradation, in software.'"
Relevant Link
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 4/11/2004 07:57:00 PM
Tuesday, April 6
The Blogging of the President: 2004
From
The Blogging of the President: 2004:
I'm going to describe a character assasination attempt, the first one of import, in the blogosphere. This is a complicated story. It involves exploiting a heavily reactionary media environment to strike at speech for political purposes. It reveals a bipartisan problem, because blogs carry some characteristics that make them uniquely vulnerable to exploitation. And it's something that's going to happen, again and again, to both Republicans and Democrats, because of the surfeit of information and mainstreaming of online politics.
This is an excellent write-up.
From
Instapundit.com:
LEFTY BLOGGER KOS DOES HIMSELF NO CREDIT by gloating over the deaths in Fallujah. ("They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them. ") (Via Spoons.)
Upon reading this article the first time (I don't know how many updates it has undergone since), Instapundit seemed to be painting the whole left/Democrats with the same wide brush. But then, I really don't expect to agree much with Instapundit.
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 4/06/2004 10:01:00 AM
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Sunday, April 4
Have a square day!
Date: 04/04/04
Time: 04:04:04
Don't you just love it?
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 4/04/2004 04:04:00 AM
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Friday, April 2
Gmail is coming...
But it's not here yet!
Google Email (gmail) is coming, and was started April 1st. It's webmail, similar to what
Hotmail and
Yahoo offer, building on the searching expertise, and the biggest difference is offering 1 gigabyte of diskspace. You technically should not have to delete any email. Ever. Let me put all three INTP mailing lists on my address once I get it. We'll see what happens.
I did find out that there is a root account on it. :)
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 4/02/2004 11:10:00 AM
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