11. December, 2002 - a little fun
- Last night (well, about 15 minutes ago as I write this at quarter to 1am) I hooked up the Google Hilite stuff here on Dave's Picks. Regular readers will probably never notice, but the people coming in from google will see their search terms hilighted. Thanks to Dean over at Textism for the code.
Yesterday, I also got the St. John's Prep alumni directory in the mail. It's on a CD now, which I figured was a step forward. But rather than provide something useful like a set of web-pages, it's got a custom application that's slow to operate (on a dual-processor 1GHz G4!) and takes over the entire screen, while telling you it looks best at 800x600 (my screen's 1600x1024). Bleagh. I find myself thinking that maybe Better Nerds should take a look at making a directory that for them that doesn't suck.- Hey! My rant about the Logitech Pocket Digital got mentioned on O'Grady's PowerPage. Lots o' new visitors. Welcome.
- Create-A-Fart. Yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like. [some guy]
- 19 million mail bins are missing. I've had one for over a month, but it's been sitting there waiting for the mailman to take it away the whole time. Apparently the shortage isn't that acute. [fark!]
- Think you've got configuration problems? Imagine a Five Hundred mile email limit and how you'd figure out what's going wrong. [boing boing]
- On Hacking - Richard Stallman. A nice little essay on one of the things that makes life fun. And to some extent, hacking yourself is one of the things that can keep maturity at bay
- Amish Tech Support is hosting the Carnival of the Vanities number 12. It's blog-posts that people are especially proud of. They're self-nominated, so it's a mixed bag, but there are a few worth reading.
- Some guy named Bernie has a theory about how one gets home from the bar sometimes: Beer Scooters. Me, I usually walk. Fewer bonks that way.
- Huh. Blogstreet says Layne ranks ranks #1950 of 31078. I'm #10428. I'm a little jealous. Do you think a picture of me showing a little cleavage would help? Probably not.
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Last updated on Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:30:14.