So, SUP bought Livejournal. Some of you might remember when Sixapart sold the Russian rights to LJ to them some time ago. At the time, many Russian bloggers ( adorned with charming "NO SUP" icons ) complained that SUP was in cahoots with the state infiltrated media via their link with the SOL+ media agency ( Read more... )

John took one!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/heliotic/2077553684/

After lots of ghetto engineering, I am posting this from my truly enormous ( queen sized ) hammock slung underneath my loft bed! It's still not hung perfectly ( it's a little steep still ), but I am very happy with it.

I name it "H.A.M.O.K.", Hempen Appliance Made Only by Knitting.

Kneel before H.A.M.O.K.!

Gold-farming empire linked to dot-com child abuse scandal ( the empire in question is IGE ).

So, IGE was most likely funded by a pedophile on the lam.

w;elp

At Villain the other week, I bought some very nice Japanese influenced stickers, and would like to pass on the recommendation - tokidoki ( "sometimes" ).

I am finally ticking off a number of computing goals. I am doing them all at once so as to cluster my frustrations in an efficient manner. Findings ( Read more... )

10 A friend of mine was once interviewing an engineer for a programming job and asked him a typical interview question: how do you know when a function or method is too big? Well, said the candidate, I don't like any method to be bigger than my head. You mean you can't keep all the details in your head? No, I mean I put my head up against my ( Read more... )

I got my invite today as an "insider" to order a Chumby ( a small, developer open, always on internet device from ( among others ) Bunny Huang - http://www.chumby.com/ ). Ready to plonk down my US$179 hardearned, I find that they won't ship outside the United States ( Read more... )

Anyone in Australia buying Guitar Hero 3 for Wii today ( release day ), should probably go to JB Hi-Fi - at the one near my office, it's $127.00, plenty of copies. Compare $149.95 at Electronics Boutique, and $149.00 at JB's online shop.

Sadly, no single guitars for sale yet.

Who fainted of hunger while trying to dig a tunnel and was wailed on by an orc until he died.

"peperony and
chease"

This is the first nethack character I've managed to get past the starting doldrums. I learned a lot!