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Just wanted to wish everyone a belated Happy Zombie Jesus Day!  Zombie Jesus Day is also the anniversary of my music server Canti, which I refer to as my Frankenstein or Zombie computer, since it was rebuilt from spare parts on Easter last year.  Also, no replies about the last post, but I have done […]

Social networking has been around for awhile. Now Firefox is getting onboard with Coop (TechCrunch article), which gives the browser similar functions as Flock. Essentially these tools integrate social networking such as MySpace, del.icio.us, Flickr, and YouTube directly into the browser, making it easier, in theory, to communicate with friends online. A […]

I logged into this blog today and saw I had 86 spam comments waiting for me.  Even in the time it took me to mark all of them as spam, another 3 spam comments were posted.  Time to fight back!  I installed a plugin called Did You Pass Math?, which requires commenters to answer a […]

I’ve been playing around with the Bash environment variable $PS1 lately. If you don’t know what that means, Bash has four built-in variables for the prompt, $PS[1-4] (more detail). $PS1 is the variable that defines what you see each line.

I’ve found a few interesting things regarding blogging lately. First, an interesting post about getting visitors. And some interesting articles have made news recently regarding comments (slashdot) and Google ads (slashdot) and free speech. Good to know I can’t get sued for what my commenters are posting.

I’ve succeeded in hacking CGI:IRC to be usable with the Wii. That’s right! IRC on the Wii! What does this mean? Well, it makes it possible to chat with friends from the comfort of your Wii. Okay, it’s not all that impressive, but that’s not the point. You can try my […]

Avast, all ye landlubbers! Treat yerselves with an escape from th’ real world and have a bit o’ fun with Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates! This be the best swashbuckling puzzle MMORPG on the net.