Idiot move #432
So I was working on cleaning up my mp3s and somehow went and deleted them all. Actually, it was more a case of me not reading a dialogue box and clicking ‘Yes’ when I shouldn’t have. Oh well. In some ways this is a good thing because I’d wanted to reorganize things a little bit.
On the other hand, my Audiotron rules. More on that tomorrow
Hackers against sexism
CNN reports “a hacker claiming to be a 17-year-old girl says she wrote a new worm targeting Microsoft Corp.’s .NET Web services platform to prove women are capable of creating computer viruses and make a statement against sexism, a computer security company said Monday.”
I personally never really cared about the gender of people who write computer viruses. I just wish they’d just stop doing it.
Teddy Borg
Ooooo. Just what I always wanted. A teddy bear that is a network switch. I like that one of the eyes glows to show power. I see the potential for a whole new range of prodcuts here for kids.
Watching site traffic
I was looking at numbers for site traffic the last few days and yesterday my traffic just skyrocketted. I tried looking through my referers for the last day, but didn’t see anything that jumped out at me. Weird.
On being impatient
I’m waiting for something to arrive from FedEx. And I keep watching the tracking, but it left at 8:50 this morning and hasn’t made it here yet. Wahhhh. I think this is one of the worst parts of the web. You have access to all this information you didn’t before.
BRRRRRR
DAMN is it cold out. I just don’t get the weather this year. It was in the 60s on Sunday, and then it was in the low 20s (teens?) last night. That is just so wrong. At least they are saying that it will be sunny all week. I want spring!
Bad site crawling software
So there’s some person who visits my site that just annoys me. Whatever they use to visit my home page crawls it, ignoring the robots.txt for my site. So, to whoever you are, your software bites. Whenever you scan my page you go and vote for and against every single post on a page, which seems like it would take a heck of a lot longer then just loading the page by itself.
QOTD
Voltaire. “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.”
Morpheus
MusicCity recently released a new version of Morpheus that uses the Gnutella network. I know it is a preview version, but this program bites. The old Morpheus allowed you to search for specific file types much more easily. There isn’t any of that. Also, from what I’ve seen so far, Gnutella is pretty crappy for video files (at least anime stuff).
Does anyone who reads this page get anime via Gnutella? If so, maybe you can help me figure out if I’m doing anything wrong.
Parental Extremes
A woman falsified her sons test scores to make him appear a genius. Is there that much pressure as a parent to have a kid who is the best? It is bad enough how hard some parents push their kids these days, but now they’re just setting them up for disaster later in life. Sad.