Category Archives: me!me!me!

no nukes here, really!

Since logging began in November, I’ve had 13 referrals from www.iaea.org, which appears to be dead; whois says it’s the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna. Ha? Is someone spoofing? Update 6/01: That site is up now.

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penguin problems

Yesterday my Linux box crashed and I spent all evening trying to bring it back to life, with – as they say at NASA – partial success. Argh. Later: In desperation, I tried ^C when the boot process says “/1 … Continue reading

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oops

Aw, hell. I’ve just wasted the day polishing my response to a troll.

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oops

I had my BIOS set to boot from floppy, HD and CD, in that order, when I wanted CD before HD. No wonder stuff wouldn’t install.

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web-logging the old-fashioned way

It occurs to me that I ought to be logging not only the good stuff I find for the first time but also the sites to which I return periodically. So. Sites of the last few days. (Most of these … Continue reading

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we’ve all got knives; it’s 1183

For once in my life someone gives me a nickname, and then in the next breath gives it to someone else. Good grief. Craig, it’s all yours, I didn’t like it anyway. Speaking of shivs, though, I wonder how Steve … Continue reading

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four puzzled people

This month’s most puzzling search: “8 day clock gear train” (4 hits). 2004 Oct 19: I guess it was attracted mostly by Travis’s Lego item.

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