Jack-o-lantern project
My wife carved out our jack-o-lantern over the weekend. Scary!
Look, deer.
This is how close the deer come to our building. This is right outside my office window.
Immunity deal hampers Blackwater inquiry
News: Immunity deal hampers Blackwater inquiry – Yahoo! News Wow. Just… wow. We’re so screwed.
Diet Coke
I drink at least two of these each work day… sometimes more. When I was younger I’d do the same thing, but with regular Coke… then my metabolism caught up with me, and that habit stopped. Why do I like it so much? Well, first off: it’s not coffee. I’m not a coffee drinker. I [...]
Apple
I was short on Apple (AAPL) until yesterday, when I covered. Good thing, too. Yikes! I feel like I stepped out of the way of a runaway freight train barely in the nick of time. Apple is a great company with great products, but man is their stock irrationally (IMO) overhyped. On a related topic, [...]
UCF InPrint mockup
I’ve mentioned this before… but in 1994, me and a few others started a school newspaper at UCF called UCF InPrint. Before we went to press with the first issue in Fall of 1994, we did a mock up in my apartment, playing around with look & feel until we found something we were happy [...]
Deputy mayor dies in monkey attack – CNN.com
News: Deputy mayor dies in monkey attack – CNN.com
How to pluralize word’s
Either I’m growing more eccentric (possible!) or there’s been a rise in the misuse of apostrophes in our society. There’s a thing going around where anytime you want to pluralize a word, you add an apostrophe and ‘s’ to the end. Examples: I’ll have two taco’s. Look into the pro’s and con’s of that. Animal [...]
named-checkzone.exe failing on Windows with INSIST(0) error
My regular readers will have no idea what I’m talking about. This is for the Googlers out there that come across this. Trying to run named-checkzone.exe in BIND 9.4.1-P1 fails with: ..\named-checkzone.c:127: INSIST(0) failed. This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application’s support team for more [...]
Fortune?
When did the fortunes in FORTUNE cookies become little jokes instead? Received today by a guy at my table: Dogs have owners, cats have staff. Disappointing. Mine wasn’t much better. I forget the exact wording, but basically it was “It’s ok to be a loser, it’s part of life.”