Overnight, this blog has been swarmed by spambots. Never fear — a spam killer is here. I installed wp-hashcash which takes a different approach to fighting blog spam. Rather than require the user to input the text from an image (which, I can tell you, as an occasional user of text-only browsers, is really really [...]
I just “hung up” on Cell. That is to say, I’ve read to the cold, bitter end. I would be lying if I didn’t say that I was fixated on it, and spent well over most of my day Saturday, bathing it its gory descriptions of death, mutiliation, and survival. Its was a very intriguing [...]
Here are my memory / and virutal-memory (swap) graphs… As you can see, I decided it was time for more swap on the server! The blue bar on the edge of the swap graph indicates the addition of more swap. The drop in the middle indicates a crash, which seems to have happened just as [...]
I was surfing for ebooks to put on my new Palm and came across Cell. I hadn’t heard of the book previously but Stephen King writes some interesting novels and the symposis was alright. I went to B&N and decided to pickup the hardcover version, which as a member, I got a fair price for [...]
First, I should note that I really wish I had gotten a Nokia 770. I ended up paying *more* money for my Palm than a 770 would’ve cost me , for many fewer features. However, if not for those Best Buy certificates, I wouldn’t have this at all.. so the 770 really wouldn’t have been [...]
