sonofabitch
Filed in Random 29 December 2004, 14:18Hey, let’s end the year on a depressing note, shall we?
use the power of mental thinking!
Filed in Computing & The Net 28 December 2004, 17:13In a dragonfly-kernel thread explaining his new plan for kernel-level (rather than fs-implementation-level) VFS journaling, Matt Dillon makes an excellent point about the way many of the people writing OS cores tend to think: So why hasn’t it been done or, at least, why isn’t it unversal after all these years? […]
w00t snow
Filed in Random 22 December 2004, 13:18Yay, we got our first snow of the year here; about eight inches or so, to boot. Had some difficulty getting the car onto the roads (resulting from a poor parking choice last night), but was darkly amused once I was out to find that the City had, by 1:00 PM, plowed next to nothing. The […]
more le guin
Filed in Random 16 December 2004, 10:12Following up on the earlier post on her website, UKL has written a longer column about her experiences with, and disdain for, the Sci-Fi ‘Earthsea’ mini. The books are about two young people finding what their power, their freedom, and their responsibility is. I don’t know what the film is about. It’s full of […]
screaming holy hell
Filed in Politics 13 December 2004, 7:12Ed Brayton nails it once again. The way the minds of these people work is just baffling. They live in a culture with hundreds of Christian TV and radio stations (while other religions have none), thousands of Christian newspapers and magazines, tens of thousands of Christian churches (dwarfing all other faiths combined by an […]
is it clever? i say yes.
Filed in Random 12 December 2004, 11:12This is just fantastic. An online Twenty Questions engine, with surprisingly good results, and which learns from reponses. The best part is the ‘uncommon knowledge’ section at the end: Uncommon Knowledge about a penguin Does it have short fur? I say Yes. Can it be tamed? I say Yes. […]
shiny, shiny debt
Filed in Random 1 December 2004, 7:12So I’ve got a new car. New used car, at least. Surprisingly little-used, though; it’s a 2001 Ford Focus ZTS with only 26000 miles. I seem to be odd in that I’m a big fat guy who likes weenie cars. The Focus, like my first choice, the Toyota Echo, is a […]
