Archive for September, 2003

Waste time here

Tuesday, September 30th, 2003

Fido Puzzle
Clever little puzzle! Went through it several times trying to figure out how it works. this guy, claims to have figured it out… will be looking forward to an explaination.
Probably very simple

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MSN support hardwired into your routers

Tuesday, September 30th, 2003

MSN Next to Hook Up with Reuters
I had the shock of my life when I read the title of the article as “MSN next to Hook up with Routers“.
But seriously, would be a rather devious scheme, to buy a hardware company and hardwire support of your network into it, somehow giving you a […]

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Patches to circumvent Verisign’s “SiteFinder”

Tuesday, September 30th, 2003

I M P E R I A L V I O L E T . O R G
A bunch of great information. Get patching

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The Truth about Charlie

Tuesday, September 30th, 2003

Truth About Charlie, The (2002)
Fairly good movie, interesting plot. I was dead tired so had a hard time following in the middle, but then got up and grabbed a snack which perked me up a bit.
The directing and comic elements were pretty good, well, different at least. Would like to see the original some […]

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Google Ranking

Monday, September 29th, 2003

Google Search: microsoft patent plugin
So a link to this blog comes in 6th place for a search for “microsoft patent plugin”. It’s pretty weird that a brand new blog like mine would rank so high.
I guess it’s because the linkage promiscuity that bloggers participate in pushes the google ranking up.
Oh, well, I’m not complaining. […]

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Yahoo IM Protocol and Third Party Clients

Monday, September 29th, 2003

I was just wondering how much (if any) Yahoo and MSN really lose from third party clients. I mean I use Yahoo protocol in Gaim, and if someone doesn’t chat, I don’t usually tell them to use Gaim (if they don’t already chat they are prolly clueless n00bs, who I don’t want to make life […]

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Crashing Ukrainian Style

Sunday, September 28th, 2003

BBC NEWS | Europe | Computer crashing, Ukraine-style
300 Ukrainian computer addicts get together to destroy thier computers. FUN!
If you want to do the same (or just want a good laugh) this should help you on your way!

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phpbb2pnmod — Is it a fork or isn’t it?

Sunday, September 28th, 2003

phpbb 2 Postnuke Module :: You know you want it
So I helped setup a Postnuke site for a friend using the phpbb2 postnuke module from phpbb2pnmod. The visual editing mode was giving the users of that site a considerable amount of grief, so I went to the phpbb2 irc room and started asking questions.
I had […]

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More Gaim-Blogger

Saturday, September 27th, 2003

So gaim-blogger only seems to support the Blogger API, not MovableType that I use. Will need to look into this further, but will stick to blogging via the MT interface, which is pretty nice.
Oh, wait… this says that MT is fully Blogger API compatible. Will save the testing for later, gotta get on with my […]

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Gaim-Blogger

Saturday, September 27th, 2003

gaim-blogger - Home
Blogging through Gaim. Gotta give that a shot.
In other IM news, YahooIM has cut off third-party clients, so we’ll just have to be offline until the nice people at Gaim can crack the authentication mechanism.
For the record my MSN/Yahoo ID is ‘rented_page’ my ICQ/AIM ID is 5342344.

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Bruce Willis’ $1m Bounty

Saturday, September 27th, 2003

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Actor Willis’ $1m Saddam bounty
Notable quotes:
being over here just a couple of days, seeing how well our troops and the allied troops are being received here, (I) think the Iraqi people are happy we’re here
and
Children are being taken care of, starting being inoculated, starting being looked after. Wherever these guys […]

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Save Kika

Thursday, September 25th, 2003

Save Kika
A web site dedicated to Kika, who was born with spina bifida and as a result is paralyzed from the waist down.
A heartwarming story of the miracles that surrounded her birth and the faith that helped her parents not only pull through this trying time, but go on to do missionary work in […]

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Go Daddy Sues VeriSign

Thursday, September 25th, 2003

A lot has been said about verisign’s “sitefinder” profit scheme. I haven’t partaken of the discussion until now when the following found its way into my inbox. It summerizes everything nicely.

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Slackware 9.1

Thursday, September 25th, 2003

Get to Know Slackware 9.1
I’m not going to turn this into a /. by annoucing every incremental update to a piece of software. I just saw this review when I was browsing through /. and thought this paragraph was quite funny.
Slackware is my new favorite operating system along with FreeBSD, Windows Server 2003 and Mac […]

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Fall is here

Wednesday, September 24th, 2003

Woke up this moring with an extremly cold nose! Fortunatly I had thrown another blanket on the night before, because I left the window open and it had frosted over during the night!
I can’t complain though, we have had a WONDERFUL summer.

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