Category Archives: General

Website anniversary #7

It’s the 7th year anniversary of my site. Happy Hallowe’en!

Free the Panchen Lama

Happy 16th Birthday Gendun Choekyi Nyima—where ever you are.

Crappy (All) Consuming crack

Dang it! The All Consuming site has been hacked by someone. I was going to login to my account to get the full list of books that I’ve read and update it now I can’t. I haven’t place the javaScript for my books code on my weblog in awhile, but still I wanted to update [...]

Great King Azumanga found in translation

They’re replaying Azumanga Daioh episodes in the Anime Network section of Comcast’s On Demand but this time around they’re adding English translation text to some of the titles to scene sections. This blows major chunks for me. I liked it better the first time around without the translation text. I guess it’s good for those [...]

Andy Warhol Bridge

A little snip of local news for today: On Friday the Seventh Street bridge was renamed in honor of local native Andy Warhol. This also makes it the first bridge in the U.S. that is named for an artist. The renaming also helped commemorate 10th anniversary of the Andy Warhol Museum Reference: Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Whatever you do, don’t pet the funny looking little black and white kitty with the funny looking tail

While I was walking to work last night I saw a little animal scurrying along the sidewalk catty-cornered from me. A bit of a strange sight considering that this is Downtown Pittsburgh and you don’t get to see this type of creature around here in the middle of the city. I could tell it was [...]

Upgrades due

Well—it’s been a long time since I’ve last posted. Looks like it’s time for another upgrade since WordPress has released it’s 1.5 version named “Strayhorn”. The name strikes me as a bit funny since I think Microsoft has been having a wee bit of trouble getting their new OS “Longhorn” up and running. I’ve also [...]

An example of really bad marketing: spam is rude

Some idiot bombarded my weblog with 44 copies of the same comment to one of my post yesterday. This is the main part of the comment that was left: This is an automatic test probe for demonstrates that it’s possible to break trencaspammers captcha plugin for WP and this plugin does not serve for anything, [...]

Canned spam

I’m trying a different way to deter spambots from trying to post junk about their usual casino websites and “texas-hold ’em” links. My weblog was getting hammered lately so I had to tighten my comment moderation. It was always one of my posts getting hit. I closed the ability to post comments to that one [...]

Election Day 2004

My mother and I got out early to cast our vote. Her polling place was closer to where we live than the place I had to go to. That’s strange since we both live in the same place. Might have been due to clerical error since our address is the same but it was represented [...]