Hmmm…
I find it curious that, ever since I installed the Yawasp module on this blog, my weekly hits are down 50%. Apparently spambots were responsible for fully half of Geek Drivel’s traffic. No great loss.
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“Universal Chargers to Finally Become a Reality”
And in other “it’s about freakin’ time!” news… 😉
“Microsoft mojo deflated by Seinfeld Vista ads”
Could also be legitimately titled “what not to do in advertising.”
“Microsoft offers to just ‘Fix it'”
Um… didn’t they cause it in the first place? 😉 Seriously, it sounds like a good idea, in general. I have to wonder why they didn’t think of it before.
“Free Upgrade!”
See the cover of this book? That black circle that contains the words “Ubuntu 8.04 on DVD” and some smaller writing that you can’t really read in that image? I saw it in the bookstore today. It says “Free upgrade to 8.10.” Earth to publisher: Ubuntu is free software. That means that they’re all free …
“SCO boss to customers: ‘Blah. Blah. Blah'”
This is just too good not to mention.
“Geekerati brace for Unix timestamp milestone”
Come on guys, even geeks have better things to pay attention to.
XKCD on Security
All too true: (Discovered via the Schneier on Security blog.)
Tactical Error
If I ever seem to think that it’s a good idea to go out on December twenty-third in lousy weather, would somebody please beat some sense into me? An in-city trip — just a normal non-shopping errand that generally takes about a twenty minute drive — required an hour and fifteen minutes to complete today. …
Herding Cats
I wrote a couple times before about our litter-box situation. At the beginning of September, it looked like everyone had adapted to the most recent box, so I wrote a blog entry about it. It seems I spoke too soon though. As mentioned then, our cat Salem had gotten it into her head that if …