One big change with my new desk at work is that I don’t have a direct
line of sight to outside anymore. (I can sort of tell if it’s light or
dark out via my monitor mirror or the general office lighting, but I
miss subtleties that way.)
To fix this, I’ve got gkrellm running with its webcam module, [...]
I bought a guitar!
It’s an OLP MM1, which is a
licensed entry-level copy of the Ernie Ball Axis made overseas.
I’m getting it secondhand (but only barely) from a friend who moved on
to a Les Paul Jr. pretty much right away. It’s coming from Texas, so
it’ll probably show up towards the beginning of next week.
While I’ve played [...]
I’ve been sort of sick of being a bit on the heavy side for quite a
while now — I went from being tall and scrawny at the end of high
school (6′2″, 32″ waist, dunno how much I weighed) to being a bit too
solid by the end of university (38″ waist, ~220 lbs). Somewhere in
between sounds [...]
Care instructions: Wipe clean with damp cloth.
Credit cards, debit cards and the like list their account numbers on the
front with the numbers in groups of 3 or 4, because humans have an
easier time dealing with numbers in small groups than larger. (Compare
phone numbers.)
Why, then, does every online store in the world refuse to let you type
in those spaces when you enter [...]
I moved desks at work again today, which is the fourth move in two and
a half years. With the exception of one move (after the first round of
layoffs, which was to a very isolated spot) they’ve all been
improvements, though, so I’m not complaining much. This one was to move
me out of the middle of the [...]
I found the website which acts as a repository of usernames and
passwords for websites that require registration that I talked
about earlier, thanks to crankysysadmin who happened
to post it to his delicious bookmarks
a few moments before I happened to be browsing there.
Said website is bugmenot.com, and it has a bookmarklet and
everything. Very handy.
I recall once encountering a website which acted as a repository of
usernames and passwords for websites that require registration such
as newspapers. I can’t seem to find it now. Does anyone remember
where it is?
I don’t mean majcher’s NYT registration generator, and I’m not looking
for any specific website’s username and password, just for this one
site that acted [...]
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