I am fascinated with metadata. I realized today just how much that fascination has shaped the structure of my personality

Explaining the idea of metadata is an exercise in recursive logic, but I also enjoy recursive logic, so I shall endure. Metadata is pure abstraction, information about information. Playing with metadata requires acceptance of ( Read more... )

So here I was, working on my ACLs. I needed to look something up on the Internet. I became distracted. I ended up at the Neck Brace Appreciation Klub, a site dedicated to "recreational and artistic neck and back bracing". Just when you think you've seen the weirdest stuff out there...

• we're being targeted by scam artists

Adam Kelley has called us six times from , between the dates of 2004/03/31 and 2004/04/09 (yesterday). He leaves his name and a phone number (not the one he is calling from) and says that "it is very important" that somebody call him back.

Mr. Kelley works for Alyon Technologies, AKA Merchants Credit Company, ( Read more... )

Reports of my demise have been overoptimistic.
So hey, I'm still sitting at the computer at 0230 and I just said to myself, "Self, you haven't updated your LiveJournal since last year." To this I replied, "This is true, Self, but nothing in your life matters." Quickly, I countered with, "But that doesn't stop any other LiveJournalers." Yeah. That' ( Read more... )

I've had a good day. My time at work was productive, not too hectic, and mostly pleasant. Long and tiring, but eh.
Due to the @rave reviews@ from my last post, I've decided to include a Link of the Day every time I post. Except that I don't post every day, so I guess it will be Link of the Post. For today's link, I would like to announce my religon ( Read more... )

My !! This is just like the Geekhouse! The Geekhouse was my last place of residence. It had an aura of geekiness so powerful that, for as long as we lived there, nobody on the entire block got laid. A Linux geek, a Windows geek, a gamer geekess, a geek that defies description, and random cameos from people that make no sense whatsoever. *sigh* Fond ( Read more... )

Guess I'm going to work tomorrow. Think I'll stop by Jethro's Waffles and Put-a-Bullet-in-your-Head Drive Thru on the way in. Going to bed now. Quite done with the world for today.

feh. Didn't mean to, of course, but I accidentally scheduled myself to be two places at once tomorow. On one hand, I am supposed to go to the bay area with Phy. On the other hand, I am supposed to work somebody's shift at the shop. Apparently, I've known about the latter for three weeks now. This came as a surprise when somebody reminded me about ( Read more... )

I'm killing time, trying to avoid doing anything about my busted email server. While doing so, I stumbled across a great way to find random, interesting web pages. Don't ask why, but I Googled for the word thgie (eight spelled backward), and found some really unique stuff. Maybe it's just late, but I think it's cool.

Apparently outblaze.com has a busted email router which is refusing to accept email from my machine. I wouldn't care, except that outblaze handles email services for mindless.com. There's somebody at mindless.com with whom I would very much like to correspond. I've been sitting here waiting for a reply to an email that's been sitting in my " ( Read more... )