It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get all loose in the joints and very ( Read more... )

Since around the time Adobe Flash bumped up to 10 or 10.1, I've noticed certain flash video websites don't work. Videos don't start, and player interface controls aren't visible. For example, Youtube works fine; Metacafe does not.
I suspected a Flash problem related to my Chrome extensions, but selectively disabling extensions didn't fix anything. ( Read more... )

Princess Victoria's epiphany

"But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." -Luke 12:48

This month I'm adding some traffic analysis skills to my webmaster toolbox. Sourceforge had some Windows-based log analysis software, but hey, wouldn't it be nice to be able to access stats via the web? So I've been eyeballing AWStats, which required me to revisit my early Perl roots. Now I remember why I dropped Perl, starting with the weirdo ( Read more... )

( Farmville faggotry )

Laird's Applejack: 40% ABV * 750ml / $19.99 = 15 bodines
Captain Apple Jack: 40% ABV * 750ml / $14.99 = 20 bodines
Applejack is a peculiar spirit, so vital to the American colonial economy that road-building crews and Revolutionary troops were sometimes paid in applejack. In the present day, applejack straddles a fruit-flavored-mixer market ( Read more... )

Recently I broke up with AVG, and started seeing PC Tools Free AV.
We had a little quarrela couple weeks ago, when it decided ZuluPad was a virus and summarily deleted the executable. But I got over it, and I figured better a little overzealous than too lax, right?
So today I started having trouble with Chrome. It became unable to load any pages ( Read more... )

XP Pro SP3, Intel Core2 Duo @ 1.8GHz, NVidia GeForce 8400M GS
FFXIV benchmark score 250, load time 43848 ms
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Making love last: less orgasms?
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"This wide love for the art springs from the singing school, secular or sacred; from the village band, and from the study of those instruments that are nearest the people. There are more pianos ( Read more... )

Denver brewery Great Divide provided this afternoon's drinkening sensation, a Belgian-style Tripel weighing in at 9.9 bodines. Somewhat cloudy and a little on the hoppy side, I found that the faint citrus notes gave way to saison-y spice as it warmed in the glass. Not the ambrosial bullseye I've come to associate with La Fin du Monde or Hennepin, ( Read more... )

I don't know if my palate has grown so discerning or if I just got a bad bottle, but my last tango with Sutter Home merlot had way too much in common with balsamic vinegar salad dressing. At 90% of the ABV and 60% of the price, a bottom-shelf Livingston merlot was much more polite.