Category: General

BZFlag

I saw BZFlag on freshmeat tonight and decided to give it a try. Wow, total bloodbath. Kind of a fun game but would be more fun if I could routinely last for more than 10 seconds and maybe have a positive score....

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WordPress 2.5

This blog is now running WordPress 2.5. Haven't played with it too much. First impression, the new look of the admin screen is pretty ugly to me.

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Alarm monitoring

There's been sporadic crime in our area. We decided to add a monitoring service to our existing alarm equipment for $31/month.

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Freeganism

My wife was watching an Oprah show about this so I looked it upon on good ol' Wikipedia. Wow, these people make vegans look like ultra-right-wingers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegan Dumpster diving - freegan awesome....

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.3.3

WordPress 2.3.3 has been released. $ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.3 U wp-includes/gettext.php U wp-includes/version.php U wp-includes/pluggable.php C xmlrpc.php U wp-admin/install-helper.php Updated to...

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PageRank 3

For some time, I had built up to a PageRank of 6, according to http://www.pagerank.net/pagerank-checker/. Then, I had someone deface my site with spam links hidden inside HTML comments and Google picked up on that and flatlisted...

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VMW down > 30% in one day

Ouch. Naturally, this was a large topic of conversation yesterday and today at work. :-) http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=VMW Looking at the bright side, I am not vested at all, so it's not like I could have sold beforehand...