I was cashing in some savings bonds earlier today at a bank which shall remain unnamed, and noticed a rather serious oversight in the design of the form they used for this task ( Read more... )

Any readers using Twitter? I just joined it because, hey, I'm bored. :-p

If anyone actually wants to follow me, it's the same username I use everywhere else.

The latest phishing attempt sent to my UGA account has the following as one of the lines that's supposed to be filled out:

"Country or TerUGAory : .. ......."

Why do I have the feeling this scam was originally intended for students at the Rochester Institute of Technology?

I just got what may be the most inept phishing e-mail I've ever seen. And I'm going to quote it below just to show how absolutely mind-bogglingly bad it is.
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I just discovered the music video for Justice's song "DVNO", and it's... a typographical feast, which I recommend to anyone who's a typography geek.

But what's particularly great is that pretty much everything in the video was inspired by TV and movie studio logos of the past. And as an Aspie who used to obsess over these sorts of TV-logo bumpers ( Read more... )

I've started blogging for Autism Awareness Month over at my "Normal is Overrated" blog. Feel free to check it out if you're at all interested in the topic...

I was just trying to register for a forum today, and came across a CAPTCHA that looked like this (this isn't the one that I actually failed, but it was generated soon thereafter):


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Christmas has passed, and my traditional blog entry on the family's gift exchanges still hasn't been posted. That's because we've all been preoccupied with said gifts.

For those who aren't really interested in personal stuff like this, feel free to skip this entry. :)

As a graduate student, I didn't exactly have a lot to give, but I had a good ( Read more... )

Gah. I just realized that, in an utterly spaced-out moment, I accidentally bought fabric softener rather than laundry detergent at the grocery store last week. (For what it's worth, the packages for Publix's generic brands of fabric softener and detergent, both of which are available in unscented form, looked almost identical... so it's an easy ( Read more... )

So yay. I've picked up a copy of Mac OS X Leopard from the UGA bookstore and installed on my PowerBook tonight.

Observations so far:

• Archive and Install worked much better than I expected. All my stuff, even all the applications I've installed, is still there; the only thing that was really affected was what I've compiled into the Unix ( Read more... )