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The last couple of days, my net connection has been down more often than not. Tech is supposed to look at it on Monday, but in the meantime if anyone is looking for me, might be a good idea to try my cell.

Gallery is broken again, it seems. Wasn’t my fault this time though, I didn’t touch anything. I strongly suspect my webhost is having some problems with MySQL (or maybe scheduled maintenance?). I’ve been seeing some inexplicable slowness more and more often, maybe it up and broke for good. At any rate [...]

So in the last few days I’ve been exploring the whole idea of recycled culture (having borrowed that phrase from Detritus.net).

From Mark Leyner’s book, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist:
He’s got a car bomb. He puts the key in the ignition and turns it—the car blows up. He gets out. He opens the hood and makes a cursory inspection. He closes the hood and gets back in. He turns the key in the ignition. The car blows [...]

Found on Mefi – possibly the best music toy ever.
It may help to click on the question mark in the corner when you are starting out – the popup descriptions are useful for making sense of what does what. Or just fiddle around until you get the hang of it.
Shame there’s no [...]

So today I took the time I should have spent watching two Netflix DVDs that have been sitting here for a week and instead added a plugin to show my recent Netflix movies and a handful of the ones at the top of my queue. You’ll see the DVD boxes on the sidebar, toward [...]

Found in Ryan Boren’s Commonplace Book.
Myself, I think I am somewhere between chapters II and III.

Hi there…
If you are reading this it means you are visiting when I’m sort of in the middle of something. The latest version of the Gallery2 beta software came out early this morning and I am in the process of trying to get it configured and working, but it’s a bit angry with me [...]

Was reading about favicons earlier today and decided to play around with it here. Turns out to be very easy to implement; the hard part is coming up with an image that looks decent at 16×16px and 16 colors or less. As an experiment I tried implementing my little flower pseudo-tattoo: random/flower.jpg It’s [...]

George Gray
I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me—
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
But my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the [...]