Blog posts from 2002

1. mozilla power

   From the css discussion mailing list, an interesting use for mozilla’s userContent.css . Most impressive css3 + mozilla action. The original post was written in October! Yet more evidence that I…

2. 0wnz0red

   I was googling for documentation on yelp , the gnome man/info/help browser to see if it was possible to use it as an alias for xman because: xman is ugly yelp --help output doesn’t seem to offer any…

3. Fantasy and the modern age

   J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings saga is considered by many to be the penultimate literary accomplishment of the 20th century. David Brin analyzes the trilogy, its author, and its genre in an…

4. Rhythmbox is perfect

   How music should be accessed. 😃 http://www.rhythmbox.org/

5. Plans for the evening...

   Kid Koala is opening for some funk band at the 9:30 tonight. I’m going. Ben is going. Amanda is going. Is anyone else going?

6. I'm a sell-out

   Well, I’ve given up on coding my own site for now. I just don’t have the time =/ This system will be much more powerful for visitors. I’m not going to give up on my useless quest to successfully…

7. Security-by-power-button

   Old MS Hotfix instructions for IIS4 . To Paraphrase: Microsoft recommends that customers running IIS 4.0 on Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition, protect their systems by uninstalling IIS…

8. cute, cuddly koala bear...

   Kid Koala. 9:30 Club Washington, DC November 23rd !!! If any of you fuckers bail on me like you did for Strickly Kev/Amon Tobin, heads will roll. amanda: Buy me a ticket pooper. I will attend. You…

9. Mages get the chicks...

   Neat, I’m not the only freak that was obsessed with UU back in the day - these guys are recreating it ! I wonder if just they have the same mental association that makes me think of the game whenever…

10. Phase 3, profit...

    When you have 10 or more geeks in an irc channel (who else would be in an irc channel) talking geek talk, invariably someone says “I wish I had my own T-1”. The general response among newbs is “I…

11. wakey wakey

    A1 - VIEWS OF SHOPPING CENTER PARKING LOT - SUNRISE A silver 2001 Ford Focus pulls lazily into a parking spot directly in front of Dunken’ Donuts. With the engine still running, the door pops open as…

12. reiserfs

    advice: Do not use reiserfs. ben: told you cough

13. wlan-ng

    Ladies and gentlemen, I am now officially wireless. Thanks Paul for the wlan-ng help and Jeff for the free 3com Access Point. Paul helped me get my wireless pcmcia card working in gentoo. I got up…

14. 140 Cigarettes

    Ben: I have not had a cigarette in one week! Grant: !!!

15. reiserfs has officially decieved me

    Welp, reiserfs has officially decieved me. Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root filesystem on 03:07 > reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda7 [ UNCORRECTABLE ERROR ] SECTOR 110 ! [ UNCORRECTABLE ERROR ]…

16. I bought jokerbone.com last night

    Well, for lack of a better name, I bought jokerbone.com last night. It’s not live yet but will be soon. When it is live, I can be e-mailed at grant at jokerbone.com and you can all update your…

17. Gauntlet gibbing

    Every other Thursday night from 7 to 9 PM, I am required to be at the office for “Tech Meetings”. The remaining Thursdays are listed as “Game Nights” but no one has ever actually had a ‘Game Night’…

18. Swapping bedrooms

    I had to move my ftp/ssh/www server + nat/firewall box. I had hoped to be able to leave it up but it was strung through too many powerstrips. > uptime Linux pcp243892pcs 2.4 .17 #2 Sat Jan 19…

19. A Proposal

    I just wanted to extend my congrats to Paul, who is the geekiest guy I’ve ever met that doesn’t have /anything/ on the web of his own to which I could href his name. The congrats are in order becuase…

20. New Roomy

    My buddy Ben got a job where I work. Aaron and I are going to drive up to Cleveland to get him on Friday to help him move to Maryland, where he’ll be my new roomate. I’m still shacked up with ol’…

21. uncreative

    Back when I was an art major taking an ‘introduction to art and digital media’ class, I was given the assignment to make three animated banner advertisements. I knew the assignment was more or less a…

22. Sunday Best

    The girlfriend took me ‘shopping’ yesterday. Half a newly-enlarged-paycheck later and I am suitably equipped with the first new wardrobe (half-wardrobe perhaps) since Mom took me out before my…

23. First Post

    I’m coming down with a mild cold. Progress will slow to a halt again until I’m fit to vim it up.