Monthly Archives: April 2006

After about six months, I’ve completed my tour of re-reading Cryptonomicon (which I consider a prequel to the Baroque Cycle) and my first readings of the Baroque Cycle novels (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World). These are … Continue reading →

Found another nasty little trojan. Directprt.dll. Trojan “Goldun”, as NAV identifies it. NAV couldn’t do anything to it, so I booted in safe mode and ran NAV plus a few other anti-spyware anti-virus tools. Pretty sure I got rid of … Continue reading →

Got an email back from DF. All is well out there, he’s hopefully going to be in a short-distance relationship soon (with the same girl *bonk*), he has two weeks left to go (roughly) until he’s out of school with … Continue reading →

I was just reading Dick Morris’ column over at his Vote.com site and I have to quote something from it, something I think is very true: Isolationism, a largely ignored theme in our politics, is growing rapidly in the wake … Continue reading →

Good God. Okay. I watch The Daily Show. It’s liberal, but it’s not that bad. But tonight was awful. They trot out Ted Kennedy (who you don’t get to see walk out like other guests, most likely so you can’t … Continue reading →

Yeah, you heard me. I fucking hate that site. If you can actually call it a site — rather, more a collection of the largest number of freaks who seem to be PERVERSELY INSISTENT ON MAKING THE WORST AND MOST … Continue reading →

After a bit of battling and changing their data source, 3Media has finally put me back online. Praise be to Xenu, etc.

My hostee, 3Media Web Solutions, just upgraded to new servers. Now, if you know anything about servers, you know that this is a process which a) seems really easy and b) is actually the ninth circle of hell. The CEO, … Continue reading →

Okay. My webalizer is down for a little while, but before it went, I was noting that the top search phrase that hit this site was “wisdom tooth rotting” — as I have a wisdom tooth that has a chip … Continue reading →

Okay. I’m known to watch MythBusters. Yes, yes, I plead geekdom. I can’t help but think how wonderful it would be to make my living…well, okay they’re not ALWAYS blowing things up…but basically by blowing things up. I mean, usually … Continue reading →