``Blogless Blog'' (is that too much? no, it's ok?)

scans_daily: 1x Hellboy

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:29:17 +0100

scans_daily: 1x Hellboy: HELLBOY
VS.
JAPANESE POP CULTURE

How I Roll… | roblord.org

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:31:42 +0100

How I Roll… | roblord.org

5ives » Five things that should be issued to every American on his or her 14th birthday

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:15:36 +0100

5ives » Five things that should be issued to every American on his or her 14th birthday:

It says… something, but I have no idea what, about America, Britain and me that all 5 of these seem like things everyone should have well before 14.

Except number 2, for why see LL; better to learn how to write by reading than being told.

"When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80’s."

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:06:05 +0100

“When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80’s.”

- David Lee Roth, whose Wikiquote page has enough gems to power an entire blog all on its own
(via bullshit)

faux_pseudo: Moar size comparisons MIND BLOWING

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:20:00 +0100

faux_pseudo: Moar size comparisons
MIND
BLOWING

"Oh my goodness, MobileMe has not been working for 3 days now, and it is built with Java. I guess it..."

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:08:21 +0100

“Oh my goodness, MobileMe has not been working for 3 days now, and it is built with Java. I guess it is official, Java does not scale.”

- Technoblog: Java Doesn’t Scale, Official Proof!

"The reality - that “the man” is scarcely competent enough to control his own bowels, and..."

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:16:03 +0100

“The reality - that “the man” is scarcely competent enough to control his own bowels, and doesn’t give a toss about you anyway - is depressing and emasculating; just another day in the cardboard box factory.”

- Charlie Brooker on 9/11 and conspiracy theorists | Comment is free | The Guardian
That’s pretty much the situation I find myself in, yeah. Shat upon from a great height by people who don’t even know I exist.

Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need…...

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:52:45 +0100

Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need…...

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja You might want to click...

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:45:04 +0100

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
You might want to click ‘previous’ to get some context.

bullshit:

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:09:14 +0100

bullshit:

"To Do: * buy a SSL certificate or self-sign so key transfer is not in the clear"

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:05:52 +0100

“To Do:
* buy a SSL certificate or self-sign so key transfer is not in the clear”

- about sshkeygen, the web’s first web-facing SSH Key Generator
gee, I guess that might help?

bullshit: There is some major geometry going on here.

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:57:41 +0100

bullshit:

There is some major geometry going on here.

bullshit:

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:57:33 +0100

bullshit:

(via bullshit)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:57:23 +0100

(via bullshit)

WUT

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:08:31 +0100

WUT

Big Rig Fire Consumes Cab of Truck Nice, the LAFD has a...

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:24:46 +0100

Big Rig Fire Consumes Cab of Truck

Nice, the LAFD has a flickr!

How to null-format all tables in a word document

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:16:14 +0100


Sub Macro1()
    Dim atable As Table
    For Each atable In ActiveDocument.Tables
    With atable
        .Style = "Table Normal"
        .ApplyStyleHeadingRows = False
        .ApplyStyleLastRow = False
        .ApplyStyleFirstColumn = False
        .ApplyStyleLastColumn = False
    End With
    Next atable
End Sub

How to get your attention back after a long-running process: $ cat bin/shout...

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:43:35 +0100

How to get your attention back after a long-running process:

$ cat bin/shout
#!/bin/bash
notify-send -u critical -t 0 -h int:x:512 -h int:y:512 $@

I love growl/snarl/libnotify for this.

foo && bar;shout HAY ALL DONE HERE

"68. If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous)..."

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:00:55 +0100

“68. If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?”

- Perlisisms - “Epigrams in Programming” by Alan J. Perlis
This. Like, a lot.

Pimp My Code, Part 15: The Greatest Bug of All

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:02:09 +0100

Pimp My Code, Part 15: The Greatest Bug of All