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| 2004/02/29 | |
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Liquid-cooled PowerBook G5? It's a rumour, hardly confirmed in any aspect of the concept, but it's a possibility. There's a pretty cool article (pun intended), on the possibility of liquid-cooling in laptops. With the exception of one Hitachi product, liquid cooling has thus far been the realm of geek PC case modders. It would be interesting to see what this other company, Cooligy, can do with their offering.In other news, advance estimates place a possible introduction of a PowerBook G5 sometime in August. I figure that's somewhat ambitious, since nothing concrete or even vaguely concrete has been said about it aside from the wild speculation of Mac fans that are chomping at the bit for a new breakthrough in PowerBook offerings. Still, I'm starting to save up. I was a first adopter of the Titanium PowerBook and I'll be damned if this machine is "starting to feel slow." (Actually, it's not. I'm fully aware that it's merely a rationalization for buying a cool new toy, but... it's a cool new toy! That and one of my screen mount bezel's is broken. Then again, that's probably a simple call to Apple to buy a replacement part... or maybe even a walk-in to an Apple store. Who knows. I'll ask if/when a green iPod mini shows up with my name on it.) | |
| 2004/02/27 | |
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Borg Cube I like that other people have gobs of spare time... more than me at least, because I love seeing stuff like this Borg cube case mod. | |
| 2004/02/25 | |
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tricenarIAN For another 14 minutes, it will be my birthday... or rather, the 24 hour period of time immediately following my birth, since it appears I have already crossed that pesky midnight line. Whee.While that sounds very unexcited, I am excited. I've had a good day, even if it began harshly. In the end, the drama at work came out positively (solved the problem!) and the time spent with friends and then friends again and all the cake... It's been a good day, even if I can already feel it going straight to my hips. So I'm 30, which is great, especially for a single malt scotch like me. ;) | |
| 2004/02/20 | |
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Origin of "May you live in interesting times." While trying to find the "latter portion" of the oft-used phrase, "May you live in interesting times," I discovered that there is a strong enough argument that it isn't Chinese in origin, as it is often attributed. Stephen DeLong of the University of Albany has an interesting article mapping his own adventures in trying to determine the origin of the phrase. It's a fun read in that he talks about what it was like to do research like this just as the Internet was really beginning to pick up steam.By the way, the full phrase that I had originally set out to find is "May you live in interesting times and attract the attention of important people," attributed to Keith Henson. | |
| 2004/02/11 | |
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Ethnic Barbie This is old news for some, but I only recently caught a whiff of it in a KoreAm magazine that... well, we have an eclectic collection of bathroom literature.Back in December, Britney Spears started an Asian concert tour, so of course there were press conferences to show off. At one, she appeared wearing a traditional Korean hanbok. I'm torn.
Still, Britney + clothes = good. Forget the lipsmacking with old pop icons; just put on some clothes. Never thought I'd hear myself say that. | |
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Hitherby Dragons I feel the absolute need to point out this fantastic writer's efforts, which have been hilarious, especially in blending disparate themes. My favourites so far are Rainbow Noir (Care Bears meet film noir) and I Remember All My Life (a Witch-King of Angmar and perky teengirl superhero buddy story).Not convinced? Try out some of these snippets from "Rainbow Noir": [Nihilism Bear says] "My motto is, 'Stop crying -- start dying!' You look like a girl who needs a fresh dose of nihilism. Have you been imagining that life has a point? That's a good dream, but all it does in the long run is make you hurt more. When you realize it's all a futile, endless cavalcade of pain, it makes all that struggling you did kind of stupid. Doesn't it?"And from "I Remember All My Life": The Witch-King of Angmar points his finger at her. It has a thin gold ring on it.Courtesy of Doyce. | |
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Car Shopping Unless you see me in the flesh ("in person" not "in the buff"), you may not know that I've been considering buying a car the past month or so. While I would love to get a Subaru Impreza WRX STi or Sport Wagon (hint, hint, sugar mommies), the reality of my situation and my current life goals speaks against it.Therefore, I think I've found my next best alternative. I wonder if I'll get a cool Speed helmet to go with it. Courtesy of Kaipo. | |
| 2004/02/06 | |
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Braise the Lard! A few nights ago, I made a serious mistake. I pulled a bag of stewing pork out of the freezer instead of the flank steak that I had intended. One night passed and I cheesed out on dinner and boiled up some rice cakes wrapped in bamboo leaves (a culinary adventure in itself when they were made two weekends ago). Last night, Henry made dinner as I came home late. Being the third day that the meat had been sitting in the refrigerator, I really wanted to get rid of it before I had to throw it away.The only problem was that I had originally bought the pork to make more of the rice cakes or congee, but now I was ill prepared to make either. What to do with the pork? I couldn't really just chop it up and stir fry it. It would have tasted like vinyl seating. Sean to the rescue! My old DM from New York happened to be online. Now, he also happens to be an exhibition chef at the Marquis Marriott, so I asked him and he coached me through making a braise. So, I made my first braise. Pork in beef broth and Merlot, with baby carrots, onion, and mustard greens. It was a little saltier and waterier than I would have liked, but it still tasted good. The pork came out wonderfully and crumbled in my mouth. With a little practice, this could be a very interesting addition to my repertoire. Who knows, maybe I'll take a page out of Coop's book and try fusing some miso with the process. | |
| 2004/02/04 | |
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Under the Table Perceptions can be misleading. You walk around, you see a big man or woman walk by and you might stereotypically think, "That person eats a lot." Sure, that works. Works in reverse, too, I suppose. See a small person and figure they don't eat a lot.So it it kinda weird to see the stereotypes turned onto their heads. For instance, this woman can probably eat you under the table. | |
| 2004/02/03 | |
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Getting It Right If you're going to write an article about wireless security for home LANs, you might be best served to actually do some research. Maybe, then, you wouldn't have written "128-bit Web encryption" when you meant "128-bit WEP encryption."Either that or your editor is a moron. | |
| 2004/02/02 | |
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Get your G-men off of my cat! In case you don't want your pets to surrender important secrets to the government, you may want to invest in some pet foil hat technology.Courtesy of Minion. | |
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Diamonds and PCs Case modders, as a general group, are an odd lot. Mixing a blend of ubernerdiness, manual dexterity, and handicraftiness, they come up with some very interesting PC cases. So, what do you do when you're a case modder and you want to get married? You make a case mod proposal.Courtesy of #!/usr/bin/girl. | |
| 2004/02/01 | |
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Superbowl Thoughts It was definitely the most exciting Superbowl I've seen in recent years and I'm thrilled by Panthers' performance, though somewhat chagrined that the Patriots pulled it out in the end. I was really rooting for the Panthers to take the trophy. They made some great plays to keep themselves in contention. They played with a lot of spirit and it was great to see Jake Delhomme get into his groove with the offence after a miserable start. I can't help but think that they mismanaged the clock on that final drive, though. They left too much time for the Patriots to do something and they were burned for it.Surprisingly, I enjoyed the game more than the commercials, which is a bit of a turnaround. To be honest, with the exception of a few ads here and there, I found this year's crop rather unimpressive. I enjoyed the donkey with aspirations of Clydesdalehood and the football players singing "Tomorrow," but there were few others that really stuck in my mind. Former favourite Monster.com came up with some really forgettable ads. And now for the controversy: For those of you that didn't switch channels to see something else or just walk away during the half time show, you would have been "treated" to an appropriately Attention Deficit Disorderly presentation of music and dance that culminated in Justin Timberlake tearing off part of Janet Jackson's costume as he sang "I'll get you naked by the end of this song." It was certainly a surprise to me, when it happened, even if she appeared to be wearing a silver pasty. Actually, it wasn't a silver pasty, it was a metal sun nipple medallion (NOT WORK SAFE). CBS, MTV, and the NFL immediately disavowed any knowledge of the unplanned and unrehearsed event. Matt Drudge seems to have a different spin on it, indicating that top CBS executives knew full well it was going to happen. Nevertheless, Timberlake and Jackson have apologised for the event, though I don't think they're really sorry. Just like I'm not all that sorry that I'm linking to Janet's naked boob (NOT WORK SAFE) in this post. Twice. | |
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Marching Order Figured out my problem... or at least my cosmetically superficial problem. There may still be a better way to implement the underlying CSS, but at least I can now get the stupid bar to display correctly in IE 6. It all came down to a matter of order. This is the original, non-working source:<DIV ID="img"><IMG SRC="img/plush.jpg"></DIV>And this is the working source: <DIV ID="banner"> | |
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Mulit-Car Garage Guess how many web browsers I have loaded on my Mac (Mac OS X 10.3.2) right now. Go on. Guess. | |
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The Measure of a Host Those of you here who are on Hosting Matters might do well to take a look at this link regarding billing information and its offshoot thread with further information regarding a physical theft at their NOC.I'm sure you can all make your own decisions about the situation, but here's my take: this is just another example of the integrity shown by the organization. As they say, they could have easily swept this under the rug, but have instead decided to risk the loss of clients with full disclosure. I've been nothing but extremely pleased with this host so my money is staying right where it is. PS: Having a picture of Xkot inside a computer rack is just a side benefit. | |
