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Monthly Archives September 2004

In case you hadn’t noticed

People are incredibly
dumb.

Posted 21 September 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) °

moving update

We move in 9 days.

Things seem to be going well. Our get-the-keys appointment at the new
building was moved from the 24th to the 27th because the office folks
won’t be around on the 24th. That works out fine, because we should
probably spend that weekend getting the last big stuff packed up here
instead of prancing around the [...]

Posted 20 September 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments Off °

YAY YAY YAY YAY

WE’RE GETTING A
CRAIGSLIST WE’RE GETTING A
CRAIGSLIST WE’RE GETTING A
CRAIGSLIST WE’RE GETTING A
CRAIGSLIST YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!!!!1!!one

There’s an unlinked “ottawa” on the craigslist cities page, and
the ottawa craigslist site
itself is up but maybe not running yet.

Yay! Craigslist seriously rocks. Montreal got theirs RIGHT after I left and I was always slightly annoyed by that.

Posted 19 September 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) °

rusty anchors

Some of my recent del.icio.us bookmarks:
☞ Word List: Adjectives of Relation
— meeting and exceeding your genitive requirements

☞ xterm character sets and translation
— How to switch xterm back from "I just catted an executable" state

☞ Welcome to the internet
— … no-one here likes you.

☞ Cook’s Thesaurus
— cooking encyclopedia with descriptions and substitutions

☞ History of Unix environment [...]

Posted 17 September 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (3) °

I’m sure someone thought this was a great idea

Current Balance: -$9.94
Amount Due: $9.94
Due Date: 2004-09-15
Failure! Please correct the errors below.
THERE IS A $9.95 MINIMUM FOR PAYMENTS

It seems like Dreamhost wants my money, but maybe they don’t! I
wonder what they expect me to do.

Posted 15 September 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (13) °

Kryptonite lockpicking

This
bikeforums thread explains that it is trivial to pick a
cylindrical-key Kryptonite U-lock in a few seconds with a Bic pen. One
poster provided a movie (mirrored by Engadget) of how quick it works.

The ten-page thread turns out the way you expect — lots of people
upset that they were counting on this lock to protect their bike, [...]

Posted 14 September 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (11) °

I, uh, is that…

This
TIME cover reminds me of something. (That’s
gotta be intentional at some point down the chain of command
there.)

Posted 12 September 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) °

Discontinued ccTLDs?

A few of us on #perl were talking today about what would happen if
Tuvalu (.tu) or Niue (.nu) were to sink into the ocean, as both have
been threatening to do for some time, and thus were no longer recognized
as countries.

My position was that the domains would continue to exist, because the
IANA “is not in the [...]

Posted 10 September 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (8) °