Category: General
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Cass and I went to see Blood Diamond this evening. It was a tossup between that and Casino Royale, but when she heard that the former starred Leonardo, she was significantly more excited about that than about seeing a new Bond who has apparently been referred to as “James Bland.” So Blood Diamond it was.…
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A couple of nights ago I had the opportunity to watch Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium, which has been on my buy/rent/download list for a year now. I wasn’t disappointed. This film definitely goes on my list of favorites both for the amazing action and the stark aesthetic. Funny enough, I’d actually say this movie has surplanted…
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Has anyone noticed that Balligomingo’s “Wild Butterfly” uses a hook pattern weirdly similar to the bridge hook from Enya’s “Orinoco Flow” or is it just me? I could swear they’re almost identical. Given that Balligomingo has been accused of plagiarism before, I suppose this wouldn’t be a complete surprise…
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I picked up this book recently since I have no major epic fantasy or sci fi series on my reading list at the moment, and thought maybe it would be worth a shot. The short of it? An interesting world, neat quirks and abilities, and such poorly written characterization that the story was painful. It…
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As I’ve occasionally intimated, I have been dabbling in music of various sorts for quite a few years. Recently I picked up the habit again, making mostly trance-influenced stuff. This evening, I took the leap and made a MySpace profile for a couple of my songs, since they get the joy of providing bandwidth and…
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So it’s been about five weeks now since I switched to Dvorak at home. I’m up to 56 WPM now, at 82% accuracy. I’m not going to bother posting any more updates on this topic – the remaining speed and accuracy will require many hours of instant messaging to develop, as did my QWERTY skills…
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If you are running Linux and you change from a DHCP setup to a static IP address on your local network, and then at some future time your ISP changes your external IP address and your internet slows to a crawl, you might find it useful to know that your resolv.conf file probably contains the…
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So it’s been just over a week since I switched to Dvorak on my laptop. I still use QWERTY on some other systems, so I’m trying to maintain both. I have to say that the Dvorak layout is MUCH more comfortable and logical. QWERTY feels completely arbitrary and distinctly unbalanced to the left in comparison.…
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Oh wait, that’s a lie. I’m far too narcissistic to be lonely. *halo* What I apparently am is a bit insane, though. I have finally made my long-intended switch to the Dvorak keyboard layout these 24 hours. So far it’s mostly maddening, as it’s dropped my near-120wpm typing rate down to a paltry 25wpm or…
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I was pretty happy to discover that the latest releases of MySQL (5.0+) allow for creating VIEWs and offer improved subqueries. I’ve been trying to incorporate some of this into my latest little game project, but a few irritations in MySQL are making it a miserable process. The biggest problem is that the new MySQL…
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