The Love Shack

I looked at the man in the mirror… and he looked back at me…
Current Mood:  crazy

This is either crazy or brilliant… I’m not really sure which just yet. But hey, remember the Cairo easter-egg in the About screen back in… Windows 98 was it? It certainly COULD happen.

I had thought, when I was younger, that I knew all about lousy parties. After all, most parties were, by definition, lousy. Then I went to a few good ones and began to think that maybe this whole deal wasn’t so bad. The good ones, in quality even if not in quantity, outweighed the bad [...]

So I had a bit of a mishap today. Involving me, my bike, and some very hard pavement. Long story short, the bike’s pretty banged up (but should be pretty easily repairable), and I’m pretty banged up, but nothing’s broken. I high-sided at low speed (about 30), went flying off of the bike, with the [...]

Ok, this has been driving me INSANE for weeks now. I use the Cygwin X server to connect to a Linux machine via XDMCP so I can have a real desktop on my Windows box at work. But the clipboard integration between Cygwin X and Windows hasn’t worked for quite a while for me. Finally [...]

I decided to do a very BRIEF update earlier. I was going to update my old hit-counter code in Perl and re-write it in PHP since almost everything running on my webserver now is in PHP anyway. So about a day later…
It’s still not QUITE done, but most of the stuff is finished. Rather than [...]

So that was quite a trip. Not literally, just figuratively. I just met someone who I’ve known for 8 years. A guy who I met ages ago playing Tribes that I just stayed in touch with over the years. I’ve known him longer than almost all of my present-day friends. And to meet him for [...]

So I recently decided to beef up my network security. I decided to set up very tight controls on my firewall. Nothing is open to the outside except for a few VERY SELECT ports. 80, 25, and a few others and that’s it. Everything else is blocked.
Until, earlier today, my network connection died. I lost [...]

So I just had a wonderful weekend. Starting out by getting 4 jumps in (and passing all 4 on the first try!) on Saturday, and then extending into 3 days of friends, food, drink, and debauchery. While the wild events of the weekend are certainly worth chronicling in greater detail (and I intend to do [...]