Monthly Archives: October 2004

Kids these days!

"Topeka, KS - High school sophomore Brett Tyson was suspended today after teachers learned he may be using PHP."... Read More »

wild accusations indeed

Yahoo! News - Report: Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War... Read More »

Remote Desktop update

Friends don't let friends run apps as root.... Read More »

Scroll and be damned!

AusCERT - AL-2004.024 -- Critical Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Allows Remote Compromise by simply moving the scrollbar?... Read More »

call centre insider

Nice call centre etiquette. I was only ever an outbound caller, so my advice from experience would be more along the lines of 'please don't call me obscene names.'... Read More »

scare the kids

Free George Bush and John Kerry Jack o Lantern Patterns... Read More »

Access verboten

"Surfers outside the US have been unable to visit the official re-election site of President George W Bush."... Read More »

dead letters

Veddy interesting collection of mail. (via)... Read More »

iPod Photo

Eeee!... Read More »

“The kid has worms!”

So there's this ad for some disposable nappy on TV and they're playing it every other goddamn commercial break. They witter on about how every baby learns how to crawl differently, or something, and it's full of nappy-clad babies skittering... Read More »

Plugin fun

I've added two new plugins to my blog -- LivePress lets me cross-post to my LiveJournal whenever I post an entry to this blog, which is neato. I plan to tweak it a little to make it a little more... Read More »

Windows Automotive

No joke, but you'd be forgiven for thinking it was.... Read More »

photomosaics

Make photomosaics from your own images or Google searches. (via)... Read More »

Which File Extension Are You?

"I am .jpg. I am very colorful. Sometimes I forget things, or distort the truth. I like working with pictures more than words."... Read More »

HumaneText.service

Convert text to and from Textile or Markdown.... Read More »

the real Kerry agenda

John Kerry supports giving kids heroin to make them learn at super blurry speed.... Read More »

How the other half lives

"Last week, some fast-spreading viruses completely shut down the network in the dorms. They went into triage mode and set up an emergency virus-removal clinic... I honestly don't know how some of these students can tolerate using their computers!"... Read More »

republican rego racket

...gets a nice write-up from Robert Corr.... Read More »

blogging != conversation

"This debate keeps popping up: Can it really be a blog if you can't comment? My answer is yes, without any doubt."... Read More »

Amusing error

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll Please re-install a copy of the above file And to think that embarrassing pod bay door incident really could have just been solved with a helpful... Read More »

World vs Bush

Surprised?... Read More »

The Flangy Guide to Hating VBScript

Mummy, make the burning stop... Read More »

The mysteries of Google

Want to hear something weird? Sure you do. I've noticed a lot of traffic coming from Google over the last day or so, all pointing to this throwaway post I made about whether Bush is wired. And lo and behold,... Read More »

INDUCE withers

"The Senate Judiciary Committee has postponed a final review of the Induce Act after negotiations among the principal parties involved in crafting the bill collapsed."... Read More »

Always two, there are.

The apprentice, and the master.... Read More »

But kids are such a joy! they tell me

"A 12-year-old girl upset about being grounded by her mother fatally shot the woman in the face while she slept, police said."... Read More »

pop quiz

What do these pictures have in common?... Read More »

Is Bush Wired?

As in for sound. May contain traces of nuts.... Read More »

Crap, crap, crap

Piss. Looks like three more years of Mr Sheen; that or he'll just hand it over to Costello. Yeah, good work, Australia. Poll inside. Vote now!... Read More »

get yours here

Election porn for your cosy Saturday viewing.... Read More »

In defence of TextMate

So the ATPM head honches, Michael and Chris, have weighed in with their thoughts on the new text editor TextMate. Apparently it's been hyped up all over the show as the next big BBEdit killer. Whatever. I've been notoriously slack... Read More »

‘Wow, look at all those Apple logos.’

a veritable sea of powerbooks... Read More »

Happy birthday!

I'm in the super secret I Was First club. Are you?... Read More »

CSS Zen book!

Adding to wishlist: "Oh, and one last thing. Announced publicly for the first time at WE04, here's a little something I’ve been working on lately." Molly adds more.... Read More »

Jeffrey Veen on open source CMS

"Stop it with the jargon already. I don't know what a portlet is. Or a component, module, block, or snippet."... Read More »

‘Splosion!

Apparently there'll be more activity at Mt. St. Helens -- VolcanoCam is on the case.... Read More »

ATPM 10.10

ATPM 10.10 is out, with reviews, cartoons and other goodies for you. Read online or download your favourite flavour.... Read More »

Music biz folks act like jerks: film at eleven

Thus spoke Scott Andrew LePera: "I'm getting a little tired of these new media moguls who assume all musicians are terrified of filesharing and can't wait to line up for their craptacular service."... Read More »

In-depth Family First

Blogger and member of the AOG, Nathan Zamprogno, writes Family First- One Christian's View. Very gutsy.... Read More »

Andrew Bartlett has a blog?!

Although I find it hard to believe the Democrats can't find a few bucks in their budget to give him something with a little more cred than this purple blogspot monstrosity.... Read More »

Simpsons house

For the truly dedicated fan.... Read More »

StickiPod

Engadget reports HP's iPod tattoos sometimes leave a little something behind (via his phischiness)... Read More »

More comments on Family First porn policy

In which Tim Dunlop's readers propose 'a ban on livejournal sites containing teenage Goth poetry.'... Read More »