Archive for August, 2004

New Name

Posted: Monday, August 30th, 2004 @ 6:30 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I, blog was kind of lame. I changed it to “/bin/rm -rf /” bceause I just did that on my laptop before I sent it to apple and it was cool. The laptop actually survived the rm -rf without crashing though it would obviously not reboot. Most of the programs I had running survived spectacularly. […]

Apple is Annoying me / Joy of Tech

Posted: Sunday, August 29th, 2004 @ 5:09 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’m back! Beach was fun, Got tanned, drank lots of margaritas and several mojitos, fell off my bike, swam, played shuffleboard.
I Got my laptop back from apple last week, it wasn’t fixed. I’m so annoyed. It was in fact, worse. It now has jaguar and can’t see the wireless card at ALL! still only 640 […]

Fixing Wordpress & Firefox / BEACH!

Posted: Saturday, August 14th, 2004 @ 12:14 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Firefox has strange behavior, which probably is not standards compliant.
Basically, if you @import or <link a stylesheet Firefox only decides that it’s really a CSS document if the Content-Type header is text/css.
Why is this a problem? In order to make the pretty image up top and the colors change at the same time, the css […]

CYA L8R

Posted: Wednesday, August 11th, 2004 @ 4:43 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I just dropped my laptop off to get repaired. The last repair (after the water debocale) wasn’t done right. The mouse was sticky, the airport barely-functional, the optical drive totally non-functional and the ethernet… well the ethernet just behaved strangely.
So i left it with apple to get repaired. With luck I’ll get it back friday, […]

Katie.com / Vonage

Posted: Monday, August 9th, 2004 @ 3:50 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Penguin Books finally relented and renamed Katie.com which is
Katherine Tarbox’s true story of how Kufrovich [a middle-aged man with a history of pedophelia] used the Internet to manipulate and molest her, and how she fought back by prosecuting him under the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and sharing her experiences so that other teens […]

Vonage

Posted: Friday, August 6th, 2004 @ 10:53 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Got the unit at 10:26, had it installed and working by 10:32, simple, straightforward, nice little box too.
I can’t even ping the goddamed thing though… does anyone know if this thing has some kind of interface?

# nmap 3.50 scan initiated Fri Aug 6 10:38:57 2004 as: nmap -T5 -sT -P0 -oA /root/.yafm/2004/08/05/19-18-49/vonage 10.0.1.155
All 1659 […]

Vonage

Posted: Friday, August 6th, 2004 @ 10:48 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Placed order last night, faxed the LOA that will allow them to transfer the old number. Hopefully I will get the hardware before I leave for the beach in mid-august.
Got my StickerGiant.com order. The Bush Playing Cards are real cool. But the Doing my part to piss off the religious right pin was about 1/2 […]

State Mottos

Posted: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004 @ 6:05 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

State Mottos
New Jersey: You Want A ##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##$%##! Motto Right Here!
Newspaper Headlines from 2035
Texas executes last remaining citizen.
A Guide to US newspapers — I read the New York Times btw.
The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.
Explaining politics using cows Like teaching kindergartners […]

About.com GWB Quiz

Posted: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004 @ 4:49 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

My results,
The George W. Bush Loyalty Quiz
10 Questions to Test Your Allegiance to President Bush
Your score is 0 on a scale of 1 to 10. You hate Bush with a writhing passion. You think he is an idiot, a liar, and a warmonger who has been a miserable failure as president. Nothing would […]

Moveable Type / Ecto / Stealing The Network / Mark Fiore / Roswell / Gay Marriage Paper / DNC Speeches on iTunes

Posted: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004 @ 4:59 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I finally got ecto to work properly. It was very simple. HINT: Enter the correct password.
However I was unable to crack ecto according to the serial box directions. I’m very sad about this :-(.
I was going to attempt to use movable type  instead of WordPress however MT is totally perl-cgi Translation: CRAP!
Whatever.
Anyone have a working […]