The other day I noticed some people searching for some very wacky things, but I never really kept track of it. Last night I decided to do something about it. If you go to my siteinfo page I have a listing of the top searches for the month, as well as breaking it down to individual search terms. I will probably end up just listing the top 20 for each. I hope to get around to posting the code for it in the next day or so, once I’ve gotten it cleaned up.

I was in the store yesterday picking up some milk and saw these. I was having a bit of a sweets craving so walked down the cookie asile. Chips Ahoy used to be my favorite store bought cookie when I was growing up. I’d take a sleeve of them and a half gallon of milk and sit down on the couch after school and watch TV while working myself into a sugar frenzy.

When I saw the box for ‘Ooey Gooey Warm ‘n Chewy Chips Ahoy!‘ I knew I had to give them a try. These aren’t your normal chewy cookies like soft ones you get. These are designed to be heated up in the microwave until they ‘smell like cookies baking’. Each box has 6 packages with two cookies in each package. You put two cookies on a plate and microwave them for 15 seconds (adding another 10 seconds if need be). The cookies do come out nice and warm, though I don’t know that I’d call them Gooey. As far as taste, enh. They weren’t bad, but they weren’t all that good either. The other problem is that when the cookies cool off they get very hard and I think they don’t taste good anymore. If you aren’t able to make a batch of cookies on your own, you would be better off buying a package of cookie dough and baking a small batch. It might take a bit longer, but the cookies will taste much better.

This was in my News Aggregator earlier today. Starting a Blog (with Movable Type) covers some of the basics of starting a blog. It’s pretty good, I think it does an okay job of showing what is needed. Though we really do need to have MT supporting RSS 2.0 out of the box with some options for those of us who want full posts to appear in it.

This morning I finally got around to installing the jabber server. I’d thought about just registering with jabber.com or jabber.org, but I liked the idea of having a server for my friends and I. There are still some things I need to work out (like getting ssl support enabled), but so far it looks like it works.

Why am I doing this? Because the Jabber folks seem to be doing some interesting stuff. Because it is free. And because if I can’t get on IM it will be because it is my fault, not the fault of some big company screwing up.

So my jabber ID is snooze@jabber.ezoons.com. You can find clients for every OS over on jabber.org. I use one called Psi on OS X. I think Trillian over on Windows may support jabber now too. If you want an account on my machine, ask nicely and I might help you. Otherwise you can just get one at jabber.org.

I just got off the phone with Comcast and I’m feeling a mass of hate in their direction already. Since I’ve lived in this apartment my cable/cable modem service has gone from Mediaone to AT&T to Comcast (for some reason I keep thinking there should be something else in there but I can’t think of who it would be). Today I was rebooting my gateway a few times and suddenly it wasn’t able to talk to the DHCP server. In fact, when I looked at the cable modem it appeared to be offline. I made a quick call to Comcast to find out if they were doing any work in the area. What occured next made me want to reach through the phone and strangle the guy who answered the phone.

The first thing the guy says to me after getting my account information is that I have an old cable modem that isn’t supported anymore. He then goes right into scheduling me getting a new modem. When I finally get a chance to ask a question I’m told that he can’t do anything to help me with the current cable modem I have. I schedule an appointment for tomorrow to get the new modem and then ask him if my service just stopped because I have an old one modem and need a new one. In other words “Did you folks cut my service because I had an old cable modem?” After insisting on an answer he tells me that yes, this is the case and they are sorry they didn’t inform me beforehand. Right about now I happen to look down at my screen and notice my line has come back up and I’m online. So on top of it all the guy lied to me. At that point I just let the call end becuase I had to head out to meet someone for lunch.

Comcast will be getting a letter from me about their crappy service though. At least make sure the front line phone droids can give real answers instead of making shit up. Bastards.

Oh, and if you’ve got one of those big ‘ol lancity cable modems I suggest calling them and just getting it replaced because they won’t even consider helping you if you have one.

Adam asks:

loose lips
If loose lips sink ships, then what do these do? [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

Worksafe, but be careful with the volume or your co-workers may get jealous.

Ogden Nash: “A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.” [Quotes of the Day]

I just found the web site for Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (called just Cowboy Bebop: The Movie). It seems that it will be opening in limited release across the US on April 4th. And, it’s showing right down the street from me in Harvard Square. I’ve downloaded the movie, but I so want to see it on the big screen. Oh, the web site for the movie? It can be found right here (requires flash). Also, while that page has the trailer, it’s embedded in the page (and only in real and windows media. Yo, Columbia Tristar, get with the program, Quicktime’s the best thing for trailers). You can find a downloadable version of the trailer here. Just watching it reminded me of how slick this movie was.

Who wants to go?

Dave Winer is making the cross country trek as he makes his move to Cambridge. Just over five years ago I was making the move myself. I kind of wish I’d been blogging then so that I had some kind of record of it. One thing I can sympathize with is the length of the drive. He’s taking it much slower than I am though. I made it from San Diego to Pittsburgh in just under three days. I hated it. It drove me crazy. I drove the whole way alone and all I could care about each day was making it to the next place I would stop and sleep. I hope to never do it again.

Thanks to my friend Jeff (Yes, I’ll get you onto my blogroll eventually), I found this cool app that publishes your iTunes playlists in HTML or text. So I thought I’d share what is currently in my iPod (Hmm, I wonder how it will handle the stuff in Japanese).

Update: I guess if you have support for Japanese in your browser it all comes out fine! cool!