The Hadron Collider Rap

For Mere, who was much relieved that the universe didn’t end.

I am one grain of sand

As of January 2008 there were approximately 155,583,825 sites on the internet. That’s roughly 1 for every 42 people on earth.
Any guesses on how many of those are porn? Contrary to what your mother says, not nearly as many as you might think. Most studies estimate the rate at less [...]

Upgrading

One good thing about not sleeping is the amount of things I can get done, including things I usually stress over and avoid. Upgrading WordPress is like that. I’ve been test driving the 2.5 release candidates on my shadow site for a couple of weeks with no problems, so when the official stable [...]

Spam Assassin?

A site I run has started getting slammed with spam since I changed hosting companies. Both companies use Spam Assassin, but must have had it configured differently. Now it’s up to me to try to slow the flood. Anyone with their own domain familiar with it? The support wiki is geared [...]

My brain hurts

As Meredith would say, it melted. For 14 hours yesterday and probably that again today, I’m doing a crash-course in PHP. I knew some, enough to see what does what, remove elements, and troubleshoot problems, but not enough to sit down with an empty UltraEdit window in front of me and start building [...]

The cat put a hex on me

Actually, it’s #lastCat {background-image: url (tabby.jpg);} but I won’t quibble.

I ♥ SFF.net

I’ve had a membership on sff.net, an online group for science fiction/fantasy writers, for about 12 years now. Last night I got a reminder of why I’ve kept my account, and my primary email, there, even though I no longer write SF.
About 7:00, the phone rang. “This is Jeffry Dwight from SFF,” [...]

Irony lives

Notice the ad below the headline of the story I just posted.

Microsoft seeks patent for office ’spy’ software
Alexi Mostrous and David Brown
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Gotta love it.

Big Brother is watching–and measuring–you

It used to just be astronauts and pilots. Now, if Redmond follows through on this patent, you, too, can have your biometric data analyzed in real time and potentially be fired for failing to meet standards.
From the (UK) Times Online:
Microsoft submitted a patent application in the US for a “unique monitoring system” that could [...]

Cyber-squatting by the big boys?

For years now there have been rumors that running a domain name search on Network Solutions is a bad idea. Legend has it that if you find a name available and don’t register it immediately, NS will latch onto it. A submitter at Reddit named Geeeeoffff seems to have made a good [...]

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