Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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Dan Breaks The Internet… Again
Whoops. You'd have thought I'd have learnt my lesson when I fucked around with BIND last year, and 'broke' a small portion of the internet, but no. I managed to 'break the internet' again while playing with the Domain Name System settings on big. That's why Scatmania was inaccessible for the last day or so …
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I’m Surrounded By Idiots
Conversation with a co-worker, who shall remain nameless:
Her: Is anybody any good at Fireworks?
Me: Yeh; you just light the blue touchpaper and run. But seriously, you ought'a be using Corel Photo-Paint.
(I wander over to her desk, and see that she's working with a bitmapped image of our logo - she's trying to remove some of … -
Computer Hardware For Sale: Bargain Prices
Overclockers Australia is running an article, collecting together advertisements for computer hardware and software over the last quarter of a century. I've pulled out a few of my favourites:
1989 Tandy 500 MC Professional - only $8499; VGA graphics, 386/20MHz, 2MB RAM - this computer's a real beast: and what a bargain! Late-80's Portable Computer … -
64-Bit Columbine
Toy... Phill from work has gotten himself a sweet new AMD64 processor; I went round to help him install it after he thought he'd broken it during assembly (turns out he'd missed a power lead and hadn't fully locked the processor into it's socket). Jeez; those 64-bit processors have a heap of pins (as one …
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Reb’s Back
Looks like I am making a regular reader out of Reb, my ex-. She posted another comment today. This time I'd improved the trace algorithm already (mostly out of curiosity). She's connecting from her Tiscali IP (80.40.255.212). There's no (meaningful) firewall running on the connection, and ports 439 (DASP), 445 (Microsoft-DS) [that could be interesting], …
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The Jews Are Back In Town (Spread The Word Around)
A large number of orthodox jews have descended upon Aberystwyth as part of an annual tradition going back for as long as anyone seems able to remember. They charter a train and rent out PJM, the student village. It's an interesting spectacle. I recall that about this time two years ago I had a fire …
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An Idea - How To Get Treeware Junk Mail Banned
Here's a thought: a way to try to get unsolicited (treeware) junk mail banned -
Every time you receive a bit of junk mail, just go and put it back in the post box: it's almost all franked mail, and so the post office will re-sort it and deliver it back to you. Put a tally … -
Making Progress
Claire's at work this Saturday morning, so I'm taking advantage of the oppertunity to finish the web site I'm developing for my dad - almost got a deployable version ready, which is nice, because I could do with getting his feedback on it and (assuming all's well with design and whatnot) deploying it "live" on …
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A Win For A Sensible Web Browser
I'm making progress with the people I work with. I've now got six of the eight folks in our office using Opera (they were formerly using Microsoft Internet Explorer, and some of them have tried Mozilla Firefox. Perhaps my recent spate of 'blog posts criticising Microsoft's browser - combined with the various hacks I've been …
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Dadadodo Poetry
Decided to have Dadadodo, which I used yesterday, to generate some poetry based on my vanity pages from the old version of AvAngel.com, my perpetually-under-redevelopment web site. Take a look at this:
My body, of the religion,
That of seeing myself in a moment,
Stares ahead.
Always been an existential touch,
And I banish this.
My life, without a link, … -
Damn My Buggy Code!
Whoops! As a result of some buggy code I'd written, my recent 'blog entries didn't get cross-posted to LiveJournal, as they usually do - it turns out that the cross-posting code I wrote only works if I write my entire blog entry at once... and my recent entries have been quite long and so I've …
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Dadadodo: Exterminate All Rational Thought
Downloaded a copy of Dadadodo, a syntax-capable word disassociator. Simply put, word disassociation programs tend to work by taking a body of text and randomly shuffling chunks of it around. Dadadodo instead builds a probability tree based on the frequency at which words occur in sequencial relationships with one another, and uses this as it's …
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Dreams Within Dreams Within Dreams
Last night I had a very odd dream, with references to previous (recurring) dreams, interspersed with appearances from people I've met since:
The dream begins in rough marshy ground. There is a dredger visible in the distance, but only one of it's two pumps appears to be working. I'm there with Claire, and we're trying … -
Things I Don’t Have Time For At Work
No, contrary to my co-worker's assumptions, I don't really have time to re-draw a set of web buttons in a different shade of green just because he's indecisive about the last three shades of green were 'wrong', but he didn't know by which direction and wasn't able to give any indication of what colour they …
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Something Cheery
I see that Slate, a magazine run by MSN (and owned entirely by Microsoft), recently published an article promoting the idea of not using Internet Explorer. Whoopsie, say Microsoft. Better yet, the article suggests using Mozilla Firefox, their main competitor in the browser market, instead.
Promised you something cheery. There it is.