PLEASE NOTE:
Due to excessive amounts of spam comments and resulting email notifications (and I mean EXCESSIVE, like dozens per day), I have globally disabled public comments for this journal.

Also, no new content is pending for this journal; I've simply left it up until I transfer the useful technical bits somewhere else.

Making Plans for Nigel ( Read more... )

Okay folks, here's one to consider: what are the oldest weapons ever actually fielded in combat ( Read more... )

If any of you are trying to get ahold of me, sorry, try again on Tuesday ( Read more... )

Heh. While trying to troubleshoot a LiveJournal problem, I found this error page which I think was even better than what I was looking for.

Reload at least five times to locate amusement.

To everyone who replied to that last post-- thank you for your thoughts, but I hadn't intended to make that public. I reinstalled the LiveJournal iPhone app and forgot to reconfigure the defaults. So, please pardon the lack of replies.

For those of you out there who may be both Feminists and Star Wars fans, please allow me to ruin your childhood forever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSuLSU9aTLk&feature=player_embedded

Sigh.

"I am sure the Iranian people will do something on February 11, which will disappoint the enemies and the tyrants completely."
--Mahmoud AmadinejadThese words almost certainly refer to street demonstrations of pro-government factions. However, there are three recent wrinkles to keep in mind before writing such a remark off ( Read more... )

These were too good not to share; click for more:


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As of today (19JAN2010), I have to warn against using Fedora 12 with VirtualBox as a guest OR a host. While I expect the problems to be relatively short-lived (30-60 days), at the moment they can be severe unless you are willing to work around them ( Read more... )