Archive for December, 2004

So Long, Tenant

Friday, December 17th, 2004

Mike has turned in his key. I was expecting to help him load the U-Haul when I got home, but it was already full and gone. He’ll spend tonight at his folks’ place and leave for Nashville in the morning. We had a surprise send-off (that was actually a surprise) at the local Taco […]

Full Disclosure

Thursday, December 16th, 2004

I have to get something out. This is honesty right here, folks. I’ve been doing something lately that I’m not proud of, and this pattern cannot continue. No, not cat juggling… I’m talking, of course, about World of Warcraft. I can’t remember the last time I was actively involved in doing something […]

Down with Dinner

Thursday, December 16th, 2004

This week has brought eating habits to an all time low. On Saturday I went to Publix to buy wrapping paper and came out with salad fixins (recall). Dangit. I went back in for wrapping paper. Sunday I went to the Christmas program and topped it off with, er, Hooters. If I died today, […]

BugFinder 1.0

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004

From a Wired article synopsis: An analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code shows that it contains fewer bugs per thousand lines of code than commercial counterparts. Gee, that sure would be a handy program to have…

Retro Comment Verification

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004

A while back I posted about comment spammers and a comment verification hack for WordPress, ImageAuth. Now Chap has developed a really cool alternate solution. I’m highly tempted to implement it here, but at the same time my brain is ticking, thinking of variations on the theme. The problem with ImageAuth is […]