Category: General
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Sometime last year, I watched Ghost in the Shell for the first time. I haven’t actually seen it again, but I remember that it was impressive, dark, and intelligent. My flawed memory doesn’t allow me to remember things in much more detail than that – sorry.:-) Last night, I fired up Innocence, the sequel of…
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Couple of things. First, I successfully tested for 5th kyu in aikido this evening. It’s about time, since I’ve been studying for a year and a half now.:-P Secondly – if your ass jiggles uncontrollably when you walk, please avoid wearing stretchy pants of any sort. This applies irrespective of gender, but women seem to…
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Since last night, I’ve noticed that whenever I try to access a cached version of a site on Google, I’m getting an error saying that the “cache:” search “did not match any documents.” An odd few seem to work, but the majority are broken. Am I the only one?
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For a few residents of a small Connecticut town, the land of the free doesn’t seem quite so free any more. With the backing of the so-called “eminent domain” doctrine, the town of New London has decided to confiscate property from landowners near the Thames River. This would be less odious if it were for…
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I was checking my mail earlier today and I picked up an advertisement for Bell Canada’s DSL service. One of the key features was “Parental Control” – the filters that block supposedly inappropriate content from your “kids.” Of course, no such advertisement should be without an example of the type of inappropriate content blocked. You…
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So lately I’ve been really busy. Stuff on my plate: Been working on my new novel. It’s at ~20,000 words now. If there’s any interest, I can post a teaser chapter for you. Let me know. Doing another editing pass at Alice – the final one, I hope. There are a few grammar errors in…
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I was watching the video for Iio’s song “Rapture” and found that it reminded me strongly of the character NG Resonance from Deus Ex 2. I know the two look entirely different, but something about the holographic-woman-dancing thing just immediately reminded me of the game. Anyway, a great song and a great game. And for…
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Obviously Spain builds better skyscrapers than the USA [WTC 7 anyone?]
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So I was reading this article on Browser Speed Comparisons and I found out that apparently IE outperforms most other Windows browsers on just about everything except for scripts. I responded, somewhat naively: I suppose the fact that IE has all sorts of nice direct access to the Windows code with god-knows-what tricks embedded to…
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Things that caught my attention today: George W Bush and the 14 points of fascism – it’s a pretty interesting look at news, mostly old, but each article is linked to a point, and there are a lot of articles. Worth scanning, at least. musicplasma.com – not something I was using today, perhaps, but I’ve…
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