August 29, 2003
Ice Cream Is Yummy
I think I have a genetic predisposition to coffee and HEATH bars. See, my dad drank coffee like a fiend, and my grandmother loves HEATH bars. Ben and Jerry were smart: they took my love for coffee and my taste for HEATH bars to make Coffee HEATH Bar Crunch.
Ugh....
You know the days when you wake up, and you know it's going to be a bad day? I know it when I get to work, and I can't focus on anything. My mind is running circles, my heart is racing, my skin is crawling, and my hands are shaking. It's like a caffeine high without the illusion of ehanced ability to focus. Music doesn't help but to push me deeper - choice albums being "The Fragile", "OK Computer", and "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness". Don't ask me why.
On a lighter note, cxreg referred me to The Ur-Quan Masters, an open-source version of the venerable Star Control 2. He also helped me find Sid Meier's Covert Action, an old DOS game that I played at Tommy's house for hours. We haven't been able to get it to run yet. This game might just be worth buying VMware.
August 22, 2003
Email Viruses
The maintainer of the NTBugtraq mailing list has some words about your mail server.
At Web Administration, we've received well over 2000 copies of the virus itself, and probably 800 autoresponses from virus scanners. Sure, we have filters in place to automatically trash the viruses, but it's a bit more difficult to filter the autoresponses.
August 21, 2003
August 17, 2003
Dazed and Confused
I watched Dazed and Confused tonight. It turned out to be a much better movie than I expected. I had visions of some lame movie about getting trashed during high school, but it turned out to be a decent illustration of the social dynamic. I was a little annoyed with the "nerd" crowd, in that their conversation seemed overly contrived.
August 12, 2003
August 05, 2003
August 01, 2003
Matrix XP
Here's some good, new-fashioned Linux propaganda. You may have seen it before, but I hadn't.