I’ll be at Connecticon in Hartford, CT this weekend! There are some cool people there – I’ll be on a panel with the Cyanide and Happiness guys. If you’re in the area, come say hi! I should have mentioned Connecticon earlier, but I’ve been busy finishing up a project – more on that later! Note: …
Yearly Archives: 2009
Security breach
This blag has been hacked. Sorry. As those reading by RSS may have noticed, there are ads being inserted periodically into the bottom of xkcd blag posts. They’re hidden from the web view. This is due to a security hole in WordPress 2.7.x and 2.8 (and possibly others). davean is watching packet flow and trying …
Laptop update
I’ve been busy these past few weeks on a variety of things, but a quick note: I decided on a new laptop, concluding my February agonizing. I’m replacing my Fujitsu Lifebook P1610 with a Lenovo Thinkpad x200s. Thank you to everyone who suggested it. My Lifebook isn’t quite dead yet (though this morning it was …
Duke Nukem Forever Metalist
Now that the Duke Nukem Forever project is dead (until it’s sold off and picked up by someone else), there’s a lot of renewed interest in the hilarious list of things that took less time than the Duke Nukem Forever development process. It lists things such as the Beatles’ entire music career and World War …
A Problem
I think I have a Bash problem. What follows is an actual command from my history. cat /usr/share/dict/words | fgrep -v “‘” | perl -ne ‘chomp($_); @b=split(//,$_); print join(“”, sort(@b)).” “.$_.”n”;’ | tee lookup.txt | perl -pe ‘s/^([^ ]+) .*/1/g’ | awk ‘{ print length, $0 }’ | sort -n | awk ‘{$1=””; print $0}’ …
Miscellaneous Friday Notes
For quite a while I’ve done a bad job of managing my email. I’m finally getting my inbox back in order, but there are still tens of thousands of messages — spanning the last year or so — that will probably go unread and unanswered for the near future. I’m going to do some sifting …
The Pursuit of Laziness
Since I was a kid, I’ve been looking for the perfect way to read in bed. The ideal position would involve no sustained muscle effort, so I could just let my eyes drift shut as I read, without the book falling shut or my hand slipping or anything. One way is to sit up against …
A Date Idea Analyzed
I don’t do conventions very often, but I recently went to ConBust out in Northampton, MA, while visiting some friends. While I was there, I had a guy propose something fascinating to me. I can’t remember the guy’s name, so if he or one of his friends sees this, post your info in the comments. …
Omegle
Since last night I’ve been obsessively connecting to Omegle. It’s a simple site that just connects you to a random person, anonymously, for a conversation. It feels like that scene in Fight Club where the narrator sits down next to Tyler on the plane. Two strangers meeting, laying out their personality and sizing each other …
What Happened to my Laptop
For the people who wanted to know the chain of events causing the laptop problems in the last post: Safe search won’t disable, and login for regular Google services is broken. I decide it’s a cookie conflict between Google services and file a bug report with Google. Google says “can’t reproduce”. I discover that clearing …
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