GoddessJ’s sister (“D”) just had a minor surgery yesterday, and the doctors recommended that she not be left alone. Her husband couldn’t stay with her today, so we and GoddessJ’s parents decided to take it in shifts. It’s not a major inconvenience for any of us; her parents are retired, GoddessJ isn’t working at the …
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And here’s a Valentine’s Day card that you can print out and give to your Significant Other… but I’d recommend reading it first. 😉
One of my sisters sent me a very interesting optical-illusion e-mail recently. I enjoyed it quite a bit. But like most such messages that I see, it was forwarded, and had several different headers, and all of the e-mail addresses it had ever been sent to were intact and visible in them. People… please, please, …
It seems that HD DVD really has lost the format war: Cargo Cosmetics has launched a new line called Blu_ray, designed for makeup artists who need to adapt to high-definition cameras. If the cosmetics industry says it, it has to be true. 😉
Lovely. At least it’s not likely to stick around long, even if it does pass.
Nice to see that it’s not just the US government that puts taxpayer dollars to good use.
People have been predicting something like this for a long time, though I frankly expected the book-publishing industry to jump on it first… it’s hard to find out-of-print books (though not as hard as it once was, thanks to Amazon).
Well, there is a ready supply, at any rate. I wonder if Thais would try other meats… I’d love to know how certain politicians stack up against rat… 😉
The Nerd Handbook was written by a nerd, for people who love (or just have to deal with) nerds. It’s disconcertingly accurate in places, even for people who are only mostly nerd-like nowadays (i.e. me). I’m torn between recommending that everyone who deals with nerds read it, and worrying that GoddessJ will think that it …
Last night, just after midnight, my RSS reader picked up a notice that the new 5.0 version of TrueCrypt (my favorite cross-platform drive encryption program) is now available. It has several very neat-sounding new features, including the ability to encrypt the system drive (under Windows), a standard GUI under Linux (it only had command-line support …