Yesterday was another wet and rainy day, and it affected my outlook all day. I just wasn’t very excited about anything, and from the sounds of things during my brief outing for lunch, I wasn’t the only one. It was a good day to huddle at home.
Today, we’re supposed to have “brilliant sunshine” all day. And after yesterday’s lethargy, I find myself once again with a pretty full list of things to do. Not the least of which is figuring out a way to deal with my mom’s car. It needs to be sold, and the neighbor of hers who wants to buy it has decided that they’re just not going to be able to afford it now. Which leaves me with a car that I need to sell that’s located about eighty miles from where I sit typing this. And the one sure buyer (a friend who runs an auto dealership) is another hour in the opposite direction. It’s not an impossible problem to solve, but it’s complicated enough that it will require either some thought or some help.
Meanwhile, if you’re located near me and interested in buying a 2002 Dodge Neon ES with low miles, drop me a note. I’d like to get it dealt with soon, so I can cross something off of the to-do list.
- A Minnesota Appeals court says gun law is invalid. This means 2003’s conceal and carry law will be appealed to the state Supreme Court, plus lawmakers will try to introduce a new law. But it also means that a very large percentage of other Minnesota laws could be struck down, since they also don’t meet the single-subject rule. Joel Rosenberg has some analysis of where this leaves us. [press-patch]
- They’re still busy out there in Mountain View: Google intros Q&A service which will give you an answer before the search results if google figures you’re asking a question it knows the answer to. [slashdot]
- Scott says Assembly language lives! I think there’s a point there, and I’ve been pondering assembly language for one of the (non-web) projects I’m working on. I haven’t made the jump yet (and I tend to favor hand-tweaking the compiler’s assembly-language output), but there are a few functions that ought to be faster than the compiler makes them. [scottk]
- Jerry’s been seeing a lot of False Positives for Internet Explorer in his logs, and discovered that they’re almost all referer-log spammers. When he filters those out, he sees that IE only has about the same number of hits as Safari. Interesting how much share IE loses when you only count the real browsers. [flutterby]
- The Vi Lovers Home Page has to get added to my “reference” section of bookmarks, I think. [accordionguy]
- Not surprisingly, I guess, Computer keyboards havens for superbugs in hospitals. But they’re the only piece of equipment in a typical hospital that isn’t disposable and can’t be sterilized. Which, I guess makes them disposable after all. [boing boing]