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Fruit snacks come in a variety of licensed shapes and brands these days, almost invariably invoking some cartoon or recent movie franchise—the usual pop-culture stuff, though a fair amount of generic shapes, like dinosaurs or the fruit from which the flavor of these rubbery neo-Jujyfruits is ostensibly derived, are also available—in order to make them interesting to kids. This I understand.
If there are Macs on your network, you can use Flame to quickly suss out and display the services running on the machines in your VLAN. It’s still under development, but it still seems pretty handy. Enjoy.
Suddenly, I felt nostalgic about Southern California. Can’t imagine why.
I think it’s their best machinima to date, and shows that as good as Valve’s efforts have been, they’re getting polished even further. These guys know how to tell a story. But don’t just take my word for it, watch it yourself.
Stupid and mundane, I know, but a sweet dream nonetheless.
Today’s bot registered with a name of jacob73kolp and an e-mail address of jacobkolp@gmail.com. This brings the total of known bots to five:
It looks like I also found a CAPTCHA plugin that will work better than Skullbit’s, which worked only briefly on the test server and then simply refused to function properly thereafter. Hopefully this new one’ll be enough to keep the bots out. |
I was strolling through the grocery store yesterday when I took a turn down the cereal aisle. The kids naturally began clamoring for sugary, crunchy whatsits, but I was able to deflect their demands by pointing out that we already had a supply of said sugary whatsits. Undaunted in their voracity, they ran further down the aisle to the shelves of 
It’s easy enough to see machines that are on your segment of the network, and browse through any files they might be sharing. But these days machines do a lot more than simple file sharing. There’s no way, though, to tell at a glance if a machine is running ssh, sharing out its iPhoto library, or something similar. 
I woke this morning to the smell of a wildfire. Outside, the morning sky filtered dimly through the haze, washing the bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic in a warm but sickly orange light. The sound of a solitary helicopter and a pair of police sirens in the distance rounded out the ambience. 
If you haven’t already heard, Valve released an update to Team Fortress 2 that adds 
The other night I had a dream about the price of gasoline. I pulled up to the pump and saw that somebody had screwed up and set the price to $2.94 per gallon instead of $4.92. I giddily—albeit furtively, lest the error be corrected, to the woe of my wallet—squeezed the trigger for all it was worth and filled the tank.
My posts about WordPress spambot registration have generated a surprising amount of traffic to this site. While few, if any, of those visitors are actually hanging around after the fact, I’m getting enough hits that I figure I’m doing the WP community some tiny bit of good by raising what alarm I can.