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June 26, 2003

Blog  One Day

One day I will write the perfect post. Every word will be both a geek-culture reference and a literary allusion, and also a relevant link to another blog. It will form a perfect bricktext at 72 columns, with acrostics on both the left and the right. The post will be in the form of a sonnet and the entire thing will be a palindrome.

Also, it will make some kind of sense.

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June 16, 2003

Blog  Tiger: Raggin' & Rantin'

Blog of the Day is Tiger: Raggin' & Rantin', for his fine sense of grammar and his judicious use of language, as approved by 7 out of 10 alien species:

Anyone who is offended by my review of their entry, remember I am merely stating my opinions and they may not necessarily be the opinions of any other single person [on this planet, as I have been contacted and told that my opinions were officially adopted by an entire alien sub-culture in the Ming Sector and most of the species in the Gamma quadrant.]
Tiger has a fine review up of the entrants in N.Z. Bear's New Weblog Showcase. If you're interested in Blogging (as opposed to just individual Blogs), or if you're looking for new Blogs to read, it's well worth the time to read Tiger's review and take a look at the Bear's showcase.

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Blog  Secret Project X Update

Well, the server seems to have utterly failed to melt, and Secret Project X is nearing completion. It actually seems to work, but needs a little fiddling before I unleash it on an unsuspecting world.

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June 14, 2003

Blog  Secret Project X

Light blogging today and tomorrow because (a) I am feeling blah and uninspired, and (b) I am busy working on Secret Project X. If SP X doesn't melt my server, it should be up for the world to see in the next few days. If it does melt my server, well, it's been nice talking to you.

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June 13, 2003

Blog  Collinization

Blog of the Day is Collinization:

So here I am, 22 years old with the house to myself for 10 days, and a huge bag of frozen peas covering my face. Of course the painkillers they gave me (which don't work) don't mix very well with alcohol, so I get to hear all my friends get drunk while I suffer in the darkness of the green giant's bounty.
Scroll down to the entry Life tells me, 'Grab your ankles!', and after you read that, work your way upwards. (It's at Blogspot, so permalinks aren't very useful even when they work at all.) Make sure you put down any beverages before getting to Thank You Sir, May I Have Another?, as the management will not be held responsible for the consequences.

(Thanks to Susie at Practical Penumbra for pointing me to this one.)

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June 10, 2003

Blog  Geographica

Blog of the Day is Geographica, hosted by Mapchic:

Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to me
I’m still unemployed
And I have no money.
Oops, that was five days ago. Sorry, Mapchic!
I have to admit that I am a bit sad that I did not get a chance to go to China and see the Yangtze before the gorges were flooded. I understand that it was a lovely region.

What I do know for certain is that this dam will render all previous physical maps of China obsolete.

The changes wrought by this dam go way beyond those of a simple new roadway – instead there will be a new physical map of China. A new lake (no name has been released) will be created it is expected to stretch for almost 400 miles upstream along the Yangtze. The flooded area will cover 2 cities, 11 counties and 116 towns.

Yes, and I wish they'd stop moving borders around and changing names and stuff like that! I just bought a new atlas and I'd like it to last at least a little while, thank you!

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June 09, 2003

Blog  Rob is Still in Japan

Blog of the Day is Rob's Still in Japan:

As we got into the elevator to go to our hotel room, a Japanese family got in with us. The kindergarten-aged girl took one look at us, marched up to me and insistently held out her nametag. We weren't quite sure how to react.

I looked at her nametag, and blurted out the first thing that came to mind: Aa, Minako-chan, hajimemashite! The young girl's face broke out into a huge grin, and she danced back to her equally happy parents.

Make sure you check out his photo album too.

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Blog  So, This is W.Bloggar?

Hey, it got my categories! Neat. Now let's see if it works...

It does indeed. Cool, very cool. w.bloggar: recommended by Pixy Misa. On the basis of three whole minutes of experience.

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June 08, 2003

Blog  One Shoe Off...

Susie of Practical Penumbra asks the question that's been on all our minds:

Ever tried to manage a movie theater on a Saturday night with only one concession register open and one of your employees stuck on the roof?
Nooo... No, I must say that I haven't.

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Blog  How's It Look?

Ambient Irony should look rather like this:

(Click for larger image.)

If it doesn't look like that, please leave a comment to let me know. Make sure you say what browser and operating system you are using.

Thanks!

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Blog  We've Got Movable Type!

It's up! I just made a tarball of my MT test site, scp'd it up to my server, unpacked it, fiddled with permissions and Apache options a bit, and viola!

If you're reading this in IE, though, it's not my fault!

Update: Then I ran into errors in MT, ended up deleting the whole thing, installing 2.64, reimporting all my entries, re-adding my plugins, fiddling with my templates and stylesheets to get them working again... It could have gone smoother.

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Blog  Blogger is Back

Joy. A three hour outage doesn't even earn a mention on Status.Blogger.Com, it seems.

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June 06, 2003

Blog  Ewww!!

Is that how this blog [The old Blogger blog. — Ed.] looks in Internet Explorer? I must admit, I'd never tried it; I use Mozilla for everything these days. No wonder nobody was reading it.

Well, anyway, that was easy enough to fix. Thank goodness it's just tables and not stylesheets.

And Internet Explorer really doesn't get the idea of "reload", does it? Cow of a browser. People use this thing? By choice?

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June 04, 2003

Blog  Infernal Combustion

Frank J. of IMAO has the skinny on how internal combustion engines work:

Well, if you check around the engine (do this when it is off and on a non-haunted car), you'll see a magic rune imprinted on it. This spell keeps the fire inside the engine. Were it ever scratched off, the next time you start your car, KA-BOOM!

Every 100,000 miles, you really should have the rune re-enchanted by a sorcerer. Check you car's owner manual for more information.

What Frank doesn't explain, though, is that the rune is there to keep the elves in. The elves actually do the work of moving the pistons, y'see. They're kind of like the magic smoke that is used in so-called "electronic" equipment; you'll have noticed that if the smoke ever gets out, the thing stops working. When you send it in for repairs, all they really do is put new smoke in.

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Blog  Finding Captain Nemo

James Lileks has found a movie he actually likes:

I also watched “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” New restored widescreen Technicolor Cinemescope etc. version. Having only seen a scratchy pan-and-scan on TV as a kid, I was curious what the movie really looked like. Oy. It’s just sublime.
I also want to know the story behind the Kirk Douglas interview he mentions.

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June 01, 2003

Blog  Readers? Or Not Readers?

I just took a look at my Sitemeter referral stats. Endlessly fascinating. Apart from my friends on the JREF Forums, I have a (presumably disappointed) fellow of excellent taste looking to download the Marx Brothers on Bittorrent; a couple of irritated people who were after a review of the Gigabyte GA-7NNXP (I must say it looks good on paper, and I may be getting one when the next pay cheque comes in); more people of discernment looking for Jungle Guu, Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar and Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (AnimeSuki is where I found Jungle Guu, but it's down right now. It is available on Kazaa, partly because I'm sharing it (cough). Likewise MST3K; I have about 20 episodes downloaded and shared - that's around 14GB worth. Sugar is available on DVD, so be nice and buy it.) And someone arriving from gravett.org who I'll forgive for the blinking links because I'm listed in (his? her? its?) blogroll. And a fine blogroll it is too; look at the company I'm in: James Lileks, Glenn Reynolds, Rachel Lucas, Frank J., Emperor Misha, Tim Blair, Mr. Mustard... I mean, I'm down near the bottom of the page, but what a great page to be down near the bottom of. Except for the blue text on a blue background, that is.

For the person who wanted to limit uploads in Bittorrent under Linux: the --max_upload_rate option may do the trick.

The person looking for pictures (presumably) of Guu in the bear suit: sorry, I don't have any.

The Weird Al fans: sorry, I still don't have Poodle Hat. It's not out for another week in Australia.

Wow, there really are a lot of people looking for reviews of the GA-7NNXP. Sorry, I could swear I found one at work on Friday, but it doesn't show up in my searches now. You could do worse than looking here at nForcersHQ or keeping an eye on AMDZone. If you live in Australia (like all right-thinking people), CW Supplies have the GA-7NNXP for $333 and the nearly-as-good GA-7N400 Pro for $239.

As for the people searching on "Nullarbor Plain horned kangaroo" and "mootrix comic", well done! You've discovered Ambient Irony!

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May 28, 2003

Blog  Blogger is Scroggled

Blogger won't talk to me. Well, that's fine. I won't talk to Blogger either.

Meanwhile, coolness is where you find it:

As perhaps the clearest evidence yet of the power of sophisticated but inexpensive game consoles, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has assembled a supercomputer from an army of Sony PlayStation 2 devices.
I know that's why I bought mine.
Perhaps the most striking aspect of the project, which uses the open-source Linux operating system, is that the only hardware engineering involved was placing 70 of the individual game machines in a rack and plugging them together with a high-speed Hewlett-Packard network switch. The center's scientists bought 100 machines but are holding 30 in reserve, possibly for high-resolution display application.
Or possibly because they still haven't finished Final Fantasy X.

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May 26, 2003

Blog  Bunyip Blogging

Blog of the Day is Professor Bunyip:

Anyone who works on the theory that you get what you pay for can't be too surprised by Blogger's recent problems. They've driven Tim Blair to a new home and tempted the Professor to follow suit. Unfortunately, despite donning a pair of elephantine trousers, borrowing a back-the-front baseball cap from young Master Bunyip, and addressing his computer his "dude", all that slash-dot-font-template stuff at Moveable Type was incomprensible when the Professor logged on early in the evening. It was even moreso after a bottle of red, several ports, an Irish coffee, a few more ports and, ill-advisedly, a long telephone conversation with Mrs. Bunyip's youngest brother, the clan's purported expert in matters cyber. The only wisdom gleaned from that exchange: An intoxicated academic should not expect sound counsel from a red-eyed young fellow whose explanations are punctuated by the background bubbling of a bong.
Stylesheets! Bloody stylesheets! Even if you get them right they don't work!

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Blog  Oh Boobies, Wherefore Art Thou?

America is on holiday and half my favourite bloggers are AWOL. Blogging being the incestuous business that it is, this means I don't get to steal report any new news from other blogs.

Meanwhile, Fark is having a boobies moratorium. Really, why bother running the site if you're not going to have boobies?

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May 25, 2003

Blog  I Taut I Taw A Leprechaun!

Blog of the Day is Eject! Eject! Eject!:

When I was nine I saw a leprechaun.

I’m not kidding. I was in the back seat of our car driving up the hill from the hotel my dad managed, back in Bermuda. I’d ridden up that hill, in that seat, hundreds of times. I knew every rock and clump of grass by heart.

Anyway, there he sat, up against a familiar rock: little green pants, little green vest, little green top hat, small little bone-white pipe. Captain Ahab beard – white, no moustache. I screamed like we had just run over Lassie.

Bill's an essayist rather than a day-to-day blogger, so he doesn't update his site that often. When he does update, though, it's guaranteed to be good.

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May 20, 2003

Blog  Internet Explorer Blues

OK, the site now looks fine in Mozilla and Opera. It also looks fine in Internet Explorer. Exactly how I wanted it. As long as your font size is set to "medium". Mozilla and Opera have no problems with changing the font size; Opera has a nifty trick of scaling everything and works no matter what; Mozilla works perfectly at three sizes and reasonably well until you start getting into the absurdly large; Explorer - resize and bleah. Well, I'll probably do a "plain jane" stylesheet for people with odd browsers, or those who need font sizes cranked up real large. Hmm hmm hmm. I could make things scale a little better if I made the sidebars wider. Hmm hmm.

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Blog  I'm Not A Web Designer...

But I do play one in real life.

While my database is rebuilding I thought I'd try out a Javascript-based trick for browser-selective stylesheets. Works. Ha ha! Of course, I still can't get IE to display things properly, but at least now I can decide exactly how I want it to be broken.

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Blog  Mojira!

Mozilla users can preview the new Ambient Irony here. IE users can wail and gnash their teeth. If you don't have any teeth, they will be provided.

(If you're reading this then you've obviously made it to the right place. Leave a comment. Let me know what you think.)

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Blog  Grr! Grr, I Say!

Oh, that's charming. Blogger ate my rant. Grrr!

And Moveable Type, while stable and elegant, is as slow as a wet week. Grrr! Grrr!!

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May 19, 2003

Blog  Archives!

We got archives!

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Blog  Suburban Blight

Blog of the Day is Suburban Blight:

And the Winner Is...

Yes, it's time once again for the Unmitigated Twat of the Week Award! This week, we're departing slightly from tradition; this week, there was a tie for first place. All of these ladies' twattiness is equally unmitigated. So, without further ado, I give you The Unmitigated Twats of the Week, the High School Hazers!

Mom, if you're reading, cover your ears. Or, umm, eyes. Now.

Kelley gains points for quality anti-idiotarian rants, but loses points for having a blog that looks so much better than mine. But I've got Moveable Type working now, so in a few short days weeks I should be moving to a shiny new home.

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May 18, 2003

Blog  Fiddling With Topicons

Installed the Topicon plugin. Looks like it will work well once I've got some nice icons done. I'll need to fiddle with the size and spacing a bit, though.

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Blog  Well, That's Different

Having re-re-installed Moveable Type, I realise that something was seriously screwed up at first and style sheets weren't working at all. No wonder it looked like crap.

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Blog  The Blog Has Landed

Yet again.

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Blog  Fun With Referrers

To all the people looking to download Poodle Hat, I'd just like to point out that (a) it's not even out yet and (b) maybe when it is out, you could, like, you know, buy it.

On the other hand, if you're looking for Azumanga Daioh, it's on Kazaa.

Interesting thing, Sitemeter.

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Blog  Practical Penumbra

Blog of the Day is Practical Penumbra:

Many people have asked me why I called my blog "Practical Penumbra." (Actually, that's a blatant lie; no one has asked. But I'm sure a lot of people are wondering........ok, maybe not a lot. But I digress......).
I have always enjoyed saying the word "penumbra". It is, however, a difficult word to slip into daily conversation. I have therefore always wanted to name something "Penumbra" for that very reason, but having no offspring (unless Frank decides to take me up on my offer to bear his children), and an adopted kitty who came with his own perfectly good name already, I have never had the opportunity to name anything "Penumbra". But just "Penumbra" seemed a little lacking, so, having long been a great fan of alliteration, "Practical" sounded like an excellent adjective.
Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
While I still think that Ambient Irony has a better sound to it, she's right about that alliteration. (It took me four tries to type that damn word correctly, by the way.) Maybe I should try a bit of that... Invidious Irony? Ambient Ambiguity? Hmm...

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May 17, 2003

Blog  Friday Fishwrap

Blog of the Day is Friday Fishwrap:

I don't know why these made me laugh so hard.. I think it was the possum.
This refers, of course, to Teen Girl Squad over at HomeStarRunner.
Note that the obligatory adorable kittens have all found good homes, so you're too late!

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Blog  Remember James Lileks' Swing?

No, me neither. But Gnat seems to like it.

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May 16, 2003

Blog  Report From Planet IMAO

Frank J. over at IMAO discusses feminine hygiene and notes that any dead bloggers should redirect all their traffic to him. If I die, Frank, I'll make sure I do that.

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Blog  Time For Your Meds!

Blog of the Day is Time For Your Meds!:

Cameron Diaz performed my surgery. Well, at least after I got the IV of Versed, she did. And she did it topless, folks. It was quite a show. Everything went well (how could it not?), but it was not without mishaps.
Come for the kitties, stay for the awww, they're so cuuute rants.

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May 15, 2003

Blog  Gweilo Diaries

Blog of the Day is Gweilo Diaries:

Today we've got a possible North Korean plot, Chinese underwear soup and lots of gratutitous breasts.
He's wrong, of course. Breasts are never gratuitous.
gra·tu·i·tous Pronunciation Key (gr-t-ts, -ty-) adj.

1. Given or granted without return or recompense; unearned.
2. Given or received without cost or obligation; free.
3. Unnecessary or unwarranted; unjustified: gratuitous criticism.

Well, okay, I'm happy enough to accept definitions 1 or 2. But unncecessary, unwarranted or unjustified? Bah!

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May 14, 2003

Blog  Flooded Lizard Kingdom

Blog of the Day (Hey, didn't we just do one of those? Yes, but it's after midnight now, and anyway, I like this one. Yeah, well, okay, but don't blame me if we all die horribly. How the heck could that happen? We're just recommending a Blog of the Day! Yeah, I'm just saying... Oh, are we still on?)

As I was saying, Blog of the Day is Flooded Lizard Kingdom presented by Princess Piewacket:

Me: "Mom, when you requested a decorative rain gutter spout that looks like a stone gargoyle for your suburban Houston house, you said you wanted the plain gargoyle or the dragon gargoyle. But you also said you wanted the long kind, and those only come in plain gargoyle and stupid-looking squirrels on a rock. So I got two plain gargoyles, figuring that then they would be twins and have a psychic link that they could use to communicate if invaders enter the yard."

Mom: "Good thinking."

Gargoyles! I always wanted to be a gargoyle!

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May 13, 2003

Blog  The Puppy Pile

Blog of the Day is The Puppy Pile! ktpupp's just started and needs encouragement.

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May 12, 2003

Blog  Mean Mr Mustard Sleeps In The Park

Blog of the Day is Mean Mr. Mustard who is in his own words "lazy as a comatose sloth on Thorazine". Good thing blogging doesn't require strenuous physical activity, then.

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Blog  Mooveable Tripe

I'm tinkering with Moveable Type but right now that blog is even uglier than this one. When I get it up and running, you'll be the second to know.

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Blog  I'm A Worm, I'm A Worm, I'm A Wiggly Worm!

All of a sudden I'm a wiggly worm. Not, as it turns out, because anyone reads my blog, but because I was indexed by the automatic indexer at blo.gs. Alas. But I'll enjoy my wormhood while it lasts, which is not likely to be long.

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May 11, 2003

Blog  Kids these days!

The Defective Yeti is on the receiving end of the blissful ignorance of youth.

Meanwhile, The Ghost of a Flea is on a roll, and points us to - among other things - the Cheeky Girls. I'm not sure if I'll forgive him for that.

Oh, and Cold Fury fisks a sandwich. (You Instapundit [no link] readers will have seen this already, which just shows that you should have come here first! Or something.)

He should have done what I do: Take an Aussie Snacks Roast Chicken Roll (which consists of - get this - roast chicken, on a roll) and add some mozarella cheese. Two minutes in the microwave and you have piping hot mouth-watering cheesy chickeny rolly goodness. Yay!

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Blog  Amateur Hour

Blog of the day is Amateur Hour, if for no other reason than introducing me to the amazing collection of nifty Flash games at Orisinal. Amateur Hour has some interesting points to make on media and communication and stuff like that too, so give it a read when you get tired of eating flies.

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May 10, 2003

Blog  Relativistic Helicopters

Steven den Beste, who knows, like, everything, explains why you can't build a helicopter whose rotor moves faster than the speed of light.

So you might as well stop trying now, and take up basket-weaving.

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Blog  Motley Cow

Blog of the day is Motley Cow. Your host for this evening is Zarathustra2101. No, I don't know what happened to the previous 2100 Zarathustras.

I'm sure I've seen that cow roaming around Sydney, by the way, but right now I can't find an appropriate link. Bah!

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Blog  Lileks Is All

What the audience could not possibly know was that I was absolutely, completely, soaking wet.

Lileks, of course.

And it's Natalie. Doh!

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Blog  Four!

Five if you count Harvey.

And the BloggerPeople seem to have fixed the Mozilla problem. Either that, or it was an ephemeral phenomenon like rainbows and butterflies, only less pretty and more annoying. New Improved Blogger seems to be working well. Maybe it's time to monkey with my template so I can get the archives back up.

Of course, it will still eat your posts whenever it feels like it. Damn and blast!

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May 09, 2003

Blog  Migratory Irony

Well, I migrated to the New Improved Blogger without testing it first. It seems to work fine except that I can't log in using Mozilla anymore. Well, poot!

Anyway, coupla quick links:

Slutertarian or Slutpublican? You decide.

Dave Barry has an interesting article about Fire Ants and the Flies That Eat Them.

And Frank J. over at IMAO enlightens us as to the speed of gravity, in case any of you were wondering.

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May 07, 2003

Blog  Three!

I got three visitors at the JREF Storm Shelter!

Three!

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May 05, 2003

Blog  No Link

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, who doesn't need another link, looks like he writes a lot, but most of his blog is really made up of quotes. Well, I can do that too:

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

There. That's always been a favourite of mine.

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Blog  Blogger New

Tastes great, less screwed-up archives. Or so they say. I'll give it a whirl with a test blog before the wholesale migration.

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May 04, 2003

Blog  Land Of The Lost Blogs

'Smatter of fact, I did write a blog entry on Friday. It went something like this:

Blog of the day is Sedgewick's Adventures in College - or it would be except that by some strange twist of fate Stupid Stupid Blogger™ is down again and I can't update my blog.

Anyway, I know exactly how Joanna feels when she says "It's 5:18 in the frappin' morning, and I still haven't gotten any sleep." I do that all the time. At least I'm not in college any more, so the only exams I have these days are these once-a-month get-it-right-or-your-ass-is-fired bill runs.

I love bill runs.

Or maybe that's the Travacalm talking.

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April 29, 2003

Blog  Googleage

Meanwhile, Google has picked up my blog! If you search on "Stupid Stupid Blogger" I'm right there. On page 2.

Funny how that works, considering that no-one links to me and it took months to pick up my other site.

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Blog  Blogosphere

I'm part of the Blogosphere Ecosystem!

'Course, I'm an Insignificant Microbe, coming in at number 1964 out of 1966, but you have to start somewhere, right?

Right?

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April 20, 2003

Blog  Stupid Stupid Blogger™

Stupid Stupid Blogger™ ate my post. In fact, Stupid Stupid Blogger™ has been effectively down for hours, at least as far as updates go.

Fortunately, I'm smarter than Stupid Stupid Blogger™, and I copied my post when by Geeksense™ started tingling. Just as blind people tend to be more alert to sounds, working as a programmer for [mumble] years helps develop a sense of when an application is going to barf in your lap.

Anyway, the BloggerPeople™ have fixed whatever it was, so I'll post my post now.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 08:46 PM | Blog | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 19, 2003

Blog  You Know Who To Blame

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0005'

Invalid procedure call or argument: 'mid'

//functions/doAutoLogin.inc, line 15

Ah, that explains it.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 04:09 PM | Blog | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Blog  Bluggy Bogger?

Has Blogger always been this buggy? My archives are broken. I can't regenerate them. I can't fix them. I can't even delete them. I've seen no shortage of other server-side errors either.

I'm new to this blogging thing, and thought that this was the easiest way to start. Now I'm thinking it might be less painful to write the whole thing in Python, if not 6809 assembler.

The phrase "stupid stupid Blogger" springs to mind for some reason.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 04:02 PM | Blog | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 17, 2003

Blog  Nuke The Moon

First I say that a blog has to be about something and that I can't just sit here and babble about what I've been watching, then I sit here and babble about what I've been watching. (Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu and Azumanga Daioh, for those who haven't been paying attention.)

So to redeem myself, here's another link to someone else's blog, and more specifically Frank J.'s proposal to Nuke the Moon. For peace. Of course.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 01:34 AM | Blog | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 15, 2003

Blog  Evil Vanquished

Ha! I defeated the evil Blogger-Mozilla-Paragraph-Breaking Link Bug. View Dave Barry's blog in Mozilla to see what I mean.

Or just read it in your browser of choice. He always has the most interesting links.

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April 14, 2003

Blog  So What Is This Blog About, Anyway?

I mean, a blog is supposed to be about something, right? I can't just sit here and babble about what I had for dinner (hokkien noodles with chicken and sweetcorn, not very good), or what I've been reading (Laurel Hamilton's Cerulean Sins, not very good) or watching (Azumanga Daioh, downloaded off the net. Very good.)

Right now this blog isn't about anything much, so if you've had your fill of the cute kitty (which should take all of five seconds unless you're Sakaki-san), go read Lileks, who probably does have something to say.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 11:30 PM | Blog | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Blog  That Cat

That cat is looking at me funny. (Of course, now that I'm running MT, that cat is gone. I'll need to find a new that cat.)

Posted by Pixy Misa at 06:40 PM | Blog | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Blog  This Is My Blog

There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 05:20 PM | Blog | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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