I’ve been having some fun making composite pictures. I saw a composite picture at a friend’s house, and I was struck by how good it looked, not because it was seamless, but because it wasn’t seamless. The seams gave the picture character and interest. I decided I wanted to try to do the same thing. I may be no Claude Samton, but I can at least steal his ideas.
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Category: Geekery
Take that you bastards!
The comment spammers have been having a field day with Maddy’s blog and her memorial. Dammit, I know spammers are the lowest form of life, but spamming the dead is beyond the pale.
Anyway, I just finished installing MT-Blacklist, a plugin that should stop a lot of the more egregious comment spam. I installed it and ran the “scan the list 25 comments” mode, and it found two comment spams. Then I tried posting a spam with a url containing a couple of spammish words in it, and it refused to allow it. So I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Welcome to my world
Quote from:
EE Times – The trouble with Rover is revealed
“The irony of it was that the operating system was doing exactly what we’d told it to do,” Klemm lamented.
Gee, do much debugging there, Klemm? That’s a daily “irony” when developing software.
Backup Solutions
Not much blogging lately – I’m sick, and it sucks. This is the third weekend in a row when I’ve been under the influence of this stupid thing. I don’t know why, but I never get quick colds any more – they always last for weeks and weeks, and the cough always turns nastier and nastier.
Anyway, I was discussing backing up computers with some friends, and I decided to try something new. I’ve always been more than a little paranoid, mostly because I’ve had a string of really bad luck with hard drives.
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The thrown gauntlet
My friend Rohan noticed some time ago that I had over 7000 units on SETI@Home, and he appeared to take it as some sort of challenge.
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