It looks like the coronation of King George I is proceeding apace.
CNN.com – Officials discuss how to delay Election Day – Jul 11, 2004
Now this is cool!
Anybody who has looked at a web site or user interface I’ve designed, or indeed at the way I dress, will realize that picking colours isn’t my forte. Normally I rely on finding a site or program whose theme I like and copying it wholesale.
I think I’ve found the answer: ColorMatch Remix. I wonder how it works?
Comment Spammers
Since I cut off comments on old entries (as I discussed in Rants and Revelations: In other news…), the number of comment spams has gone down from one or two a day to only one comment spam in 12 days.
I think I’m going to shove that command into a daily cron job.
Take that, you spamming bastards!
I’m losing it
Are the basic concepts of boolean logic that foreign to people? And I’m not just talking about normal people – I’m talking about computer programmers, managers of computer programmers (former programmers themselves), and quality assurance testers.
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Bait and Switch
Today I had to make yet another concession to advanced age – I’m getting reading glasses. Actually, the optometrist came up with the same prescription that he came up with last time, but last time he basically said “You can take them or leave them”, and this time he gave a harder sell. Of course, having just spent half an hour playing Toucan on my Palm Tungsten in his waiting room, my eyes were a little stressed, so it wasn’t that hard to sell me.
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