I’ve wasted two hours today deleting comment spam and trying to spam proof the two Movable Type based blogs that coexist here, since I’m fairly positive that none of their readers are that interested in the enlarging of body organs. MT-Blacklist, which has been installed for a few months, just wasn’t cutting it [...] » Read more

Covad was in today, wiring up my phone line for DSL. I switched from Speakeasy’s standard ADSL service – requires landline service, no wiring, self installation kit with phone filters – to their Onelink plan – no landline service needed, wiring required, technician install. I started the process on September 22nd, one week and [...] » Read more

Worked today, not because I’m such a lame workaholic, but because I’m taking Friday off: I cashed in some air miles to visit Susan. Alaska Air really does have a good program: eight trips to the Bay Area or so, booked online, earned me one saver ticket. When booking two weeks ago, I couldn’t [...] » Read more

The car has been insured, passed the smog test (needing only a gas cap replacement, the inspection of which seems to fall under the purview of emissions control), and has been properly transferred to my ownership. I have not hit anything or anybody – other than my narrow driveway, scraping the right side of [...] » Read more

Bizarre web statistic of the day: > grep house_move1.jpg access_log | grep 0[78]\/Mar\/2004 | wc -l 161 161 reloads of one image from one IP address, and still counting. Yep, some silly person is morbidly fascinated with a very dirty fridge. [...] » Read more

The hard drive on this server died yesterday. The blog’s back up but I’m still ironing out some issues. Back to regular programming shortly. [...] » Read more

I ordered DSL through Speakeasy on the 6th or so, and the DSL modem and self-installation kit showed up on Wednesday. That made it eight days, start to finish, amazing compared to the month-long waiting period the last time around. And the hardest part about the installation this time was deciding where to put [...] » Read more

I’m 24. As David so charmingly put it, in a couple of years from now I’ll be Christmas fruit cake (nobody wants them after the 25th, har har). In two separate conversations with entirely different people, I have inadvertently used an invented abbreviation – “boxin” – when I really meant to use “botox”. [...] » Read more