Archive for 2004
The Movable Type manual leaves much to be desired, but the good news is that there is a web site on Learning Movable Type which had an excellent article on using suexec which my web host recently startedd using. All of this comes up because of a bug in PhpBB which allowed for the defacement [...]
pi_over_two is set to 0.0
Yeah, it’s been one of those days.
A hotel that was off the beaten track decided to offer guests a look at the lighter side and so installed a room that had laughing gas pumped into it. After this, however, their occupancy rate dropped to zero.
Why?
Did you hear the one about the lady who opened a “Battery Shack” down on the pier?
Update: It is permissible to post a comment saying “I don’t get it.” If anyone really wants to know the answer.
You know you’ve been gettign too much spam when you look as Firefox’s permenant hosts file (hostperm.1) and see something else entirely.
Imagine that the foal of a Unicorn and Pegasus decided to mate with the love child of Barney and Cyclops. What would you get if the near human offspring turned out to be a cannibal?
First comment with the right answer may win some sort of fabulous prize.
Last year my company sent out a security refresher, reminding us to think twice about the information were handing over to people. It included the following gem of information:
Never provide anyone with more information than is absolutely necessary to accomplish your objectives.
Sounds like some sound advice for an environment of trust and sharing [...]
Job prospects Marcel Marceau have been looking up since he was signed as the spokesman for a second tier soft drink company. He will be known as his act, the Fanta-mime.
From an email I sent this morning to someone who used to work on the project that I work now: Four years after starting this, I think I finally understand the orginal purpose for the one of your classes. I’ve made plans to put it back into the code.
It’s just been one of those mornings.
Q: Why is it that slopping coding always comes back to bite me in the ass?
A: Because we like to make our own lives miserable.
Of course, Kim has to update Steph’s answer with something grounded in reality: “We never have time to do it right the first time, but always have time to redo it.”