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On a completely unrelated note, you should go download the TMBG Clock Radio from tmbg.com. Now. Really. It rules. You should do it.

heh. And from what I hear, there’s another one that’s supposed to launch a DDOS against windowsupdate.com tomorrow. Boy, I’d hate to be a Microsoft network administrator right about now. No Sleep ‘Till Brooklyn? Heck, no sleep ’till doomsday…

I don’t know if anyone reading this site has ever seen my VCD database site, or remembers it, but I’m writing a new version of it. I decided that it lacked certain features that I wanted (like an actual field for Format and Norm), so I’m in the process of writing it again. Of course, this also includes a tough choice: re-enter all of the information, for each CD (there are probably over 5000 at this point), or re-connect the old SQL server, pull the information off it, re-format the information, and insert it into the new server I can’t decide which would be a bigger pain, so for now I’ve manually entered data for a few series (B5, Highlander, a few others), just to get some sample data to use for the database, and see what I’m missing, and what’s gonna be difficult to code. ...

OK, so there was considerable vitriol in that last post. I was a little perturbed; I had just finished a call with some guy on a cell phone, who was talking very quietly, and who wouldn’t speak up. I already had the volume on my headset turned all the way up, too. Ugh. Not too much going on today; I went to the store earlier and got some of these kick-ass tortillas that Kathee told me about: 3 grams of “countable” carbohydrate. Good stuff. I’m going to whip up some fajitas tomorrow night, so we’ll see how good they really are. ...

OK, If I’m talking on the phone to you, and I say “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you. Could you please speak up”, for the LOVE OF GOD, speak the FUCK UP!

I broke down and installed a log-analysis program on the site, so now if you’re curious, feel free to click the “Logs” over there -> on the menu, and see who’s been accessing the site.

For a laptop made in the mid-90’s, the batteries for my HP Omnibook 5000CTS are still pretty expensive. The lowest I’ve foudn is $89 from this place, and I’m considering it. Even though they’re the crappy NiMH batteries (the Li-ION ones were considerable more; the lowest I’ve seen tonight is 149.00). I figure I can get two of them, that’ll provide enough juice for 3-4 hours of use (if I’m not hammering the hard drive, and the SCSI card is disabled). ...

weblog.devlogic.org is now www.devlogic.org … what was www.devlogic.org (the old site) is now cms.devlogic.org (for archival purposes). That is all.

You know, sometimes there’s just writer’s block. I should really figure out what I’m doing.

OK, it’s only been around since July 26 or so, but this is the coolest web site I’ve seen in a long time. You know how when you sign up for something on the net, they need an email address? Well, if you don’t run your own mail server, it’s hard to create fake addresses a the drop of a hat (like " bullshit@logic.cx" ; don’t email that address, it goes to /dev/null at this point). And it takes at least 4 minutes to sign up for a yahoo email address. ...