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New Toys

Found a couple of new places to visit last night, while dealing with the 60+ emails waiting for me. First is Samuel Pepys' diary, in blog form, complete with useful references of the places Pepys referred to, who's who. The other is I wish, you wish, a

Demonopolised

We have transferred this domain name, another one has left the Evil Empire. All three domains with our name on are now at Domain Direct. Feels good. Anywhere but Verisign would feel good, and these guys have done well on the other two domains. (Thank you Grammar Police, mistake corrected.

@ what?

BBC News report, the French have tried to rename the @ symbol Controversy has erupted in France after the linguistic authorities gave the @ character a name no French email user has ever heard of. Until now, the French have had a choice between "arobase", a popular word derived from

The Poetry of Programming

Read an interview with Richard Gabriel, a Sun engineer, linked from IdeaJoy. ThinkGeek has the perfect t-shirt for this guy: Code Poet. Writing code certainly feels very similar to writing poetry. When I'm writing poetry, it feels like the center of my thinking is in a particular place,

Buttonized

Made a Quantum Tea button: If you wanted a button to link to this blog, go ahead and grab a copy. Paint Shop Pro is a wonderful tool. You can't tell I had the day off work, can you? :-) American holidays are always a pleasant surprise.

YAWV (Yet Another Windows Virus)

From the BBC News report Computer virus insults victims Security experts are warning computer users to be on the look-out for an insulting worm that can serious harm a PC. Known as Winevar, the worm is spreading via e-mail as an attachment that infects computers running Windows. Winevar has a

Thoroughly aggregating

In theory, this blog should be part of Janes' Blogosphere now, and new posts should show to an aggregator bot that just happens to be passing. Woohoo!

Geek cred

In Borders Cafe writing Java code, how geeky is that? Worse yet, composing a blog entry about it. It feels good to be writing code, trying to track which bit does what, working without the API docs (help, I've gone blind!), and using an IDE solo for the

Signature

Dick Davies, of Radio Worldwide, has a great haiku as his email signature. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.

Journey to Rantville

Windows Media Player 7.0 puts in a new ASPI layer without telling you. I wouldn't have noticed except a program stopped working, the one I use to rip the MP3s from CDs we actually own. Grr. My CD. My laptop. Don't go breaking things without

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