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Firebird with the Mad Max package.

Stealth with the Tina Turner package.

The first five links for “thesaurus rock” all point to Bad Religion pages.

Mmm, Hot Snakes… Anybody that can pull off using the word dilettante in a rock song is golden in my book.

I added a search box and an archive box to the navigation (currently) on the left of the page. Tell me if there are any issues, especially with the archive box. It is using CSS2 to handle the overflow of archive links.

One of my coworkers is really into home automation. He showed me how his entire house is controllable through the web. It even keeps logs of all the activity. A lot of geeks are worried about the uptime of their servers. His house has a whole list of uptimes such as “Living Room Lamp 1, In the OFF state for 1 day, 13 hours, 5 minutes and 36 seconds”. He can tell when the garage door is open, who has called and how long they talked, the temperature of each room, etc etc. He uses HomeSeer software and a lot of products from smarthome.com. You know those damned X10 pop-under ads? Well, it turns out that X10 is actually a protocol for home automation and that no one that does home automation really buys from the official X10 company.

Back to that “entire house is controllable through the web” bit: Combine an always-on DSL connection and a weak password, and someone can hack your house. Tip: don’t use your first name as your username with a single repeating character as your password.

C a n t b r e a k t h r e e – q u a r t e r m i l l i o n m a r k . . .

An informal analysis of my main email account: For July 22nd, 2002, out of 74 emails total, 37 emails were spam, 37 emails were not. *50%* spam. But it’s okay. Thank you, SpamAssassin.

Ah, Collapse, my heart goes out to thee, and my score of 736,778.

<helminthes> and the little basket at the counter says tips, so you hock a big loogie in it and then you realize what you did and say, “oh shit i’m dyslexic”