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  1. One last interview October 31, 2003

    I think that this should be the last of my posts regarding my recent notoriety. Tech news site BetaNews interviewed me about the entire affair yesterday, and the interview has just been posted on their site.

    Posted in 15Minutes, Life.

    4 comments
  2. Hey Mr. DJ! October 31, 2003

    An 80’s pop music online quiz.

    Posted in Links.

    6 comments
  3. And I thought the politicians were scary October 31, 2003

    Here’s a fun little Halloween story that I’d not heard before. Apparently, the U.S. Capitol Building is haunted!

    Posted in Links.

    5 comments
  4. Look out! Pornography! Duck! October 31, 2003

    I can’t tell you how much safer and more secure I feel about the world around me to know that our dearly beloved President declared the week of October 26th to November 1st, 2003, to be Protection From Pornography Week.

    Posted in Politics.

    6 comments
  5. People must like my design October 30, 2003

    There is a potential downside to a good site design that I hadn’t foreseen — that being people ripping it off. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

    Posted in Website.

    41 comments
  6. ‘Big Mac’ details October 30, 2003

    Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, the head of Virginia Tech’s recent construction of a 1,100-node Power Mac G5-based supercomputer (currently tentatively ranked as the 3rd fastest supercomputer in the word) gave a talk at the O’Reilly Mac OS X conference this week.

    Posted in Technology.

    No comments
  7. My inner fanboy just had an orgasm October 30, 2003

    Whoever wins…we lose.

    Posted in Film.

    4 comments
  8. Is Boing Boing broken? October 30, 2003

    While the current page is certainly friendly and cheerful, it’s not quite the Boing Boing I’m familiar with.

    Posted in Links.

    3 comments
  9. Are you on the blacklist? October 30, 2003

    The NRA has a 19-page ‘blacklist’ of groups, associations, companies and individuals known to support gun control legislation posted on their website. Feeling left out ‘cause you’re not on it? Sign up to be added!

    Posted in Politics.

    12 comments
  10. More E-voting issues October 30, 2003

    The security breaches and known vulnerabilities of the current E-voting systems make it clear that in their present state, they cannot be trusted — and I, for one, would greatly prefer it if I could be sure that my vote in 2004 goes to the candidate I intend it to.

    Posted in Politics.

    1 comment
  11. Automatic defrag in Panther October 29, 2003

    Everytime an application opens a file for reading, HFS+ checks if the file is fragmented and is less than 20MB in size. If so, it copies the file’s contents to a continuous region on the disk and frees up the previously allocated blocks.

    Posted in Technology.

    1 comment
  12. I always knew she was evil! October 29, 2003

    New from Mattel, just in time for Halloween — Secret Spells Barbie!

    Posted in Links.

    3 comments
  13. Two days to Halloween… October 29, 2003

    …and I still don’t have a costume. Maybe I should go as Bill Gates? ;)

    Posted in Links.

    5 comments
  14. Fifteen minutes of fame October 29, 2003

    Another major followup post, answering questions about my experiences over the past couple days — Slashdotting and all!

    Posted in 15Minutes, Life, Microsoft.

    47 comments
  15. Yikes! October 29, 2003

    Oh my lord — I’ve been slashdotted.

    Posted in 15Minutes, Website.

    25 comments
  16. Thank you! October 28, 2003

    Many thanks to all of you who’ve passed on words of encouragement. Here’s some answers to a few of the questions that have been brought up over all this.

    Posted in 15Minutes, Life, Microsoft.

    53 comments
  17. Of blogging and unemployment October 27, 2003

    And that simply, as of about 2pm today, I once again joined the ranks of the unemployed.

    Posted in 15Minutes, Life, Microsoft.

    373 comments
  18. Nothing to see here…move along… October 27, 2003

    The White House is excluding Google and other search engines from indexing any whitehouse.gov page with ‘iraq’ in the address. Can’t go making real information easy to find, now can we?

    Posted in Politics.

    5 comments
  19. Gene Robinson under FBI guard October 27, 2003

    The lengths that people will go to in their homophobia in the name of religion is really scary. Bishop-elect Gene Robinson is currently under 24-hour FBI protection due to death threats.

    Posted in Religion.

    9 comments
  20. Ash to ash, dust to dust October 27, 2003

    The stories posted of people coming out to find ash covering everything do sound very familiar, though — only for me, it was due to volcanoes.

    Posted in Current Affairs.

    2 comments
  21. Bush’s plans to expand the Patriot Act October 26, 2003

    President Bush doesn’t think the current Patriot Act is good enough. In an attempt to ‘close loopholes’ in the original legislation, he’s proposed three very frightning changes.

    Posted in Politics.

    2 comments
  22. Panther goodies October 26, 2003

    Lots of interesting tips and tricks for Panther are showing up on the web now that it’s been out a few days. Some of the niftier ones I’ve run across so far:

    Posted in Technology.

    4 comments
  23. Bush in Oz October 26, 2003

    While it’s certainly no surprise, apparently Bush’s visit was heavily stage managed to make sure he got the most possible accolades, and the fewest possible questions…

    Posted in Politics.

    2 comments
  24. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 October 26, 2003

    I’m going to keep my comments here fairly brief, as this is only the first part of a two-part story. So, briefly, first impressions of the first half of Kill Bill…

    Posted in Film.

    No comments
  25. Ooooh…spooky! October 26, 2003

    Seeing as how we’ve found our way into Halloween week, I thought I’d find some appropriate colors for the week. Enjoy!

    Posted in Website.

    1 comment