Greetings to those who see such capacity in me that, despite my long absence, you haven't taken the minimal effort to defriend me, allowing another to join the limited capacity of your zoo. I fear college has done a decent job of keeping me occupied combined with financial issues, relationship issues, new friends, and discovering role playing. Yes, that's the sound of the sixth year of my undergraduate degree beginning. It sounds

Anyone who develops applications for Windows or likes a little insight into how things work behind the scenes in Microsoft is probably already aware that Microsoft encourages its employees to keep blogs. Once in a while, I read one of these blogs, "The Old New Thing" maintained by a Mr. Raymond Chen. He writes interesting, though somewhat basic tutorials on basic concepts, pitfalls, and good practice with the Windows API. For example, in th

I'm sure many out there consider the moderation system to be something akin to sewage in a modern town: Perhaps necessary, but stinky, and best left to others who make it happen. For those of you who couldn't care less about this journal, feel free to comment on the uselessness of it and discourage me from further filling your inbox with such drivel. For those interested in maintaining your custom, state of the art cess pool, complete with fans, luminescent paint, and alligators, read on.

Just an odd thing I noted earlier today. warez.slashdot.org used to be a kind joke. It resolved to 127.0.0.1. No longer. It takes one to Slashdot's homepage. Was this instituted recently when Pound was added for load balancing, or was this done a long time ago, and I just didn't notice?

There's a fair chance that you've already seen this video before I did. After all, Fark and PA already covered it, both in a fairly derisive manner. Just in case you missed it, there's a fairly rotund teenager attempting some staff techniques, or something. The video itself isn't terrible, and one definitely can't fault the kid for enthusiasm.

Just in case I'm not the only one who needed to know why asterisks were appearing everywhere next to people's name in the comments: They mark who is a subscriber. It'd be nice to, I dunno, have a real gold star instead of a random asterisk which no one cared to send us all a little message about. Probably already a feature request at the CVS. If not, maybe someone should add it? Maybe me. Anyhow, it ap

Slashdot's karma system has some interesting properties to it. Here's one that's particularly near to my heart: moderating will drop your karma much more often than it will raise it. As ones moderations at are meta-moderated, the results affect the moderator's karma. When you are meta-moderated down, you will lose a point of karma unle

This goes to linux because prior to actually heavily using linux (college) I had only seen a few random mentions of the 'meta' key in my life. And I have yet to see any Windows/DOS/OS/2 program that had something that responded to a 'Meta' key. Perhaps that's because these are operating systems which have had a strong habit of tying themselves to the

What follows is an overly obsessive analyzation of a minor part of Slashdot. I really am this geeky, but I'm not really lacking as much perspective as the time I took on this might make it appear.

Trolls seem to be popping up lately, and here I am with no mod points, so the best I can do is post to my journal. Observe what several found Funny.