Geek Drivel

Apparently every cloud does have a silver lining. I don’t know what it might be for the Gulf oil spill though.

“I weep for my gender.”

That’s one heck of a pool table.

Good tips on a subject that few of us know how to handle at all, let alone how to handle well.

Bah. Humbug.

GoddessJ and I have been married for ten years today. Here is an open letter from me to her: GoddessJ, the last ten years have been amazing. You’ve taught me a lot, and I’ve grown to be a much better person for it. I’ve always admired your openness, your enjoyment of life, your sense of [...]

You don’t need to worry about rare and exciting problems like terrorist attacks. The odds are that mundane and boring things like not eating right or getting enough exercise will kill you.

Some useful statistics on “one of the most lethal flu outbreaks in recorded history.” Reading that should calm all but the most germophobic people.

As you can probably see, I’ve made some updates to the blog. Some are visible, like the new “favicon” and a new theme; some aren’t, like removing some junk plugins and making some security improvements. All in all, I’m fairly happy with the results, but let me know if you see any weirdness.

This evening, as I was working away on the laptop that has been my main system for the last couple years, things got suddenly much quieter in the office — my desktop system, which had been running near-continuously for most of its five and a half years of life, had shut itself off very abruptly. [...]