This morning's storm caused a tree to fall on a power line, causing a transformer fire and a power outage. It looks like it caused something to break in our wiring as well, because when the power came back, magically half of the apartment was still without power. When that half came back, the UPS started freaking out, rapidly cycling between AC and ( Read more... )

I will be in Toronto tomorrow night (Thursday, June 28). If anyone is near there and wants to meet up, let me know.

ETA: I'm flying Northwest Airlines. Wish me luck.

Since most people are probably clueless about what I've been up to lately, here's a brief update to give some context for this post ( Read more... )

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Anyone know of a good site for TV listings? Yahoo's new TV site fucking blows. I can't emphasize that enough. It's slow and bloated, even on a high-end machine. The listings are hidden "below the fold" on lower-resolution screens, and even then, they only show a fraction of what the old site showed. If you click on "full listings," you get an ( Read more... )

So, after reading this, I set out to see how bad AOL's movie service really is. I really wanted to see the blank Terms of Service the article mentioned. ;)

Anyway, movies.aol.com (which is, strangely enough, not where you actually download movies) has text ads. The first one really jumped out at me:


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Tonight, something on Monk caught my eye:

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It's SIGGRAPH time again, so that means that the really cool photo browsing technology that CSE and MS have developed can finally be revealed to the public ( Read more... )

IT IS WAY TOO HOT IN THIS APARTMENT:

[root@SG2-3 tmp]#./getheat
Temp = 101.515991 (7822)
Humidity = 26.680027 (802)
Heat Index = 102.898315